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Head to head · 2025 pitching

Clayton Kershaw vs Emmet Sheehan

In 2025 Clayton Kershaw has been worth 0.3 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.

2025 season

2025 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticClayton KershawEmmet Sheehan
G2315
GS2212
IP112.273.1
W116
SO8489
ERA3.362.82
FIP3.552.93
WHIP1.220.97
K/96.710.9
BB/92.82.7
FIP−8570
WAR2.21.9

Postseason

Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.

Every published postseason, pitching, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
StatisticClayton KershawEmmet Sheehan
G417
GS320
IP196.211.0
W130
SV10
SO21310
BB547
ERA4.628.18
WHIP1.142.18
K/99.78.2
BB/92.55.7

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.

Career pitching totals. ERA, WHIP and the per-nine rates are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; FIP needs each season’s own constant and is left to the season table.
StatisticClayton KershawEmmet Sheehan
G45551
GS45145
IP2,855.1246.0
W22315
L9612
SV01
SO3,052285
BB71381
ERA2.534.13
WHIP1.021.12
K/99.610.4
BB/92.23.0
HR/90.71.4
WAR74.43.4

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

How these are computed

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.