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Head to head · 2025 pitching

Brayan Bello vs Clayton Kershaw

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.
StatisticBrayan BelloClayton Kershaw
G2923
GS2822
IP166.2112.2
W1111
SO12484
ERA3.353.36
FIP4.193.55
WHIP1.241.22
K/96.76.7
BB/93.22.8
FIP−10185
WAR1.92.2

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.
StatisticBrayan BelloClayton Kershaw
G241
GS132
IP3.0196.2
W013
SV01
SO0213
BB254
ERA12.004.62
WHIP2.331.14
K/90.09.7
BB/96.02.5

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.
StatisticBrayan BelloClayton Kershaw
G126455
GS108451
IP659.22,855.1
W45223
L4396
SV10
SO5563,052
BB231713
ERA4.132.53
WHIP1.361.02
K/97.69.6
BB/93.22.2
HR/91.00.7
WAR8.274.4

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.