Clayton Kershaw Career Starts Overview

During Clayton Kershaw's 15-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 398 starts, an average of 27 starts per season. 2011 was his best season with 33 starts and his worst season was 2020 when he had 10 starts. Clayton Kershaw is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (68.878580669008), Millenial (38.101123595506), mlb (66.111093477226), SP (113.75581395349), and Y (437.61111111111) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a pitcher appeared as the first pitcher for thier team in a game. Generally, for Starts, higher is better. (Source)

Clayton Kershaw Lifetime Starts

Stats similar to Starts for Clayton Kershaw
Clayton Kershaw
Starts
Career398
Season Avg.27
162 Game Avg.67
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Clayton Kershaw Starts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Clayton Kershaw's yearly Starts for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Clayton Kershaw Cumulative Starts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Clayton Kershaw's career Starts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Clayton Kershaw's career Starts at the end of that season.
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Clayton Kershaw Starts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Clayton Kershaw and related player groups by summarizing Starts for each season played by Clayton Kershaw. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!
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Clayton Kershaw Starts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Clayton Kershaw Starts stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Clayton Kershaw career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.
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