Head to head · 2025 pitching

Adrian Houser vs Clayton Kershaw

In 2025 Clayton Kershaw has been worth 0.2 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.

Adrian Houser CWS

Clayton Kershaw LAD

2025 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
Statistic	Adrian Houser	Clayton Kershaw
G	21	23
GS	21	22
IP	125.0	112.2
W	8	11
SO	92	84
ERA	3.31	3.36
FIP	3.81	3.55
WHIP	1.28	1.22
K/9	6.6	6.7
BB/9	2.7	2.8
FIP−	92	85
WAR	2.0	2.2

Career

Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2015 begins at 2015, 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 table above.
Statistic	Adrian Houser	Clayton Kershaw
G	199	244
GS	141	242
IP	843.1	1,477.0
W	44	125
L	51	47
SV	1	0
SO	651	1,607
BB	316	289
ERA	4.06	2.58
WHIP	1.35	0.98
K/9	6.9	9.8
BB/9	3.4	1.8
HR/9	0.9	0.9
WAR	9.1	38.4

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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.