Head to head · Career pitching
Sonny Gray vs Clayton Kershaw
In 2025 Sonny Gray has been worth 1.5 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 | Sonny Gray | Clayton Kershaw |
|---|---|---|
| G | 368 | 455 |
| GS | 359 | 451 |
| IP | 2,087.0 | 2,855.1 |
| W | 143 | 223 |
| L | 107 | 96 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 2,074 | 3,052 |
| BB | 667 | 713 |
| ERA | 3.51 | 2.53 |
| WHIP | 1.19 | 1.02 |
| K/9 | 8.9 | 9.6 |
| BB/9 | 2.9 | 2.2 |
| HR/9 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| WAR | 40.4 | 74.4 |
2025 season
| Statistic | Sonny Gray | Clayton Kershaw |
|---|---|---|
| G | 32 | 23 |
| GS | 32 | 22 |
| IP | 180.2 | 112.2 |
| W | 14 | 11 |
| SO | 201 | 84 |
| ERA | 4.28 | 3.36 |
| FIP | 3.39 | 3.55 |
| WHIP | 1.23 | 1.22 |
| K/9 | 10.0 | 6.7 |
| BB/9 | 1.9 | 2.8 |
| FIP− | 82 | 85 |
| WAR | 3.7 | 2.2 |
Postseason
Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.
| Statistic | Sonny Gray | Clayton Kershaw |
|---|---|---|
| G | 7 | 41 |
| GS | 7 | 32 |
| IP | 35.0 | 196.2 |
| W | 1 | 13 |
| SV | 0 | 1 |
| SO | 35 | 213 |
| BB | 15 | 54 |
| ERA | 3.34 | 4.62 |
| WHIP | 1.37 | 1.14 |
| K/9 | 9.0 | 9.7 |
| BB/9 | 3.9 | 2.5 |
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.