Head to head · Career pitching
Clayton Kershaw vs Zack Wheeler
In 2025 Zack Wheeler has been worth 1.8 more wins. Both lines are computed from play-by-play on the same constants, so they are measured the same way rather than quoted from two sources.
- Two of the 25 most valuable pitching careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.
Career
Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2005 begins at 2005, not at his real first game.
| Statistic | Clayton Kershaw | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 455 | 311 |
| GS | 451 | 311 |
| IP | 2,855.1 | 1,890.1 |
| W | 223 | 127 |
| L | 96 | 80 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 3,052 | 2,013 |
| BB | 713 | 537 |
| ERA | 2.53 | 3.26 |
| WHIP | 1.02 | 1.13 |
| K/9 | 9.6 | 9.6 |
| BB/9 | 2.2 | 2.6 |
| HR/9 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
| WAR | 74.4 | 41.3 |
2025 season
| Statistic | Clayton Kershaw | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 23 | 24 |
| GS | 22 | 24 |
| IP | 112.2 | 149.2 |
| W | 11 | 10 |
| SO | 84 | 195 |
| ERA | 3.36 | 2.71 |
| FIP | 3.55 | 3.00 |
| WHIP | 1.22 | 0.94 |
| K/9 | 6.7 | 11.7 |
| BB/9 | 2.8 | 2.0 |
| FIP− | 85 | 72 |
| WAR | 2.2 | 4.0 |
Postseason
Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.
| Statistic | Clayton Kershaw | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 41 | 13 |
| GS | 32 | 11 |
| IP | 196.2 | 74.1 |
| W | 13 | 4 |
| SV | 1 | 0 |
| SO | 213 | 80 |
| BB | 54 | 17 |
| ERA | 4.62 | 2.30 |
| WHIP | 1.14 | 0.77 |
| K/9 | 9.7 | 9.7 |
| BB/9 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
More head to heads
The same seasons, measured against somebody else.
FIP uses the constant solved from this season’s own runs, and FIP− is park-adjusted against the same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page. To put these two beside a third, the comparison page takes up to four.