Clayton Kershaw Intentional Walks

Clayton Kershaw Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Clayton Kershaw's 15-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 27 intentional walks, an average of 2 intentional walks per season. 2014 was his best season with 0 intentional walks and his worst season was 2010 when he had 9 intentional walks. Clayton Kershaw is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (12.084642395121), Millenial (6.9662921348315), mlb (12.111569592128), SP (11.901013714967), and Y (42.444444444444) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Intentional walks are walks issued by pitchers to avoid risking a strong hitter from having a damaging at bat. Historically a pitcher would need to throw 4 intentional balls which are pitches out of the strike zone, however newer rules removes this requirement and batters can be walked without the pitches using a signal to the upmire. Generally, for Intentional Walks, lower is better. (Source)

Clayton Kershaw Lifetime Intentional Walks

Stats similar to Intentional Walks for Clayton Kershaw

	Clayton Kershaw Intentional Walks
Career	27
Season Avg.	2
162 Game Avg.	5
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Clayton Kershaw Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Clayton Kershaw's yearly Intentional Walks 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.

Clayton Kershaw Cumulative Intentional Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Clayton Kershaw's career Intentional Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Clayton Kershaw's career Intentional Walks at the end of that season.

Clayton Kershaw Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Clayton Kershaw and related player groups by summarizing Intentional Walks 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!

Clayton Kershaw Intentional Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Clayton Kershaw Intentional Walks 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.