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Player Comparison: Clayton Kershaw vs. Justin Verlander

Data runs from 1871 to present. Stats relying on play-by-play data are complete back to 1973, mostly complete back to 1950, and somewhat complete back to 1915. Postseason data for AL/NL runs from 1903 to present.

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Standard
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	OPS+
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2022	20-34	357	847	698	46	113	11	1	1	40	1	0	34	211	.162	.205	.185	.390	129	15	4	110	1	0	9
2	Justin Verlander	2005	2022	22-39	24	60	50	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	24	.100	.100	.100	.200	5	2	0	10	0	0	-46

Value

Value
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2021	20-33	357	847	-90	-3	2	0	118	28	2.8	1	28	2.8	.508	.501	2.9	0.0	28	$257,701,142
2	Justin Verlander	2005	2020	22-37	24	60	-13	0	0	0	9	-5	-0.5	0	-5	-0.5	.479	.500	-0.5	0.0	-5	$259,515,000

Advanced

Advanced
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2022	20-34	711	33	1.2	99	.230	.162	.255	.205	.323	.185	.409	.390	.732	9	.085	-89.8	-9.0	.280	.073	.023	1.0
2	Justin Verlander	2005	2022	22-39	57	1	0.5	103	.192	.100	.261	.100	.327	.100	.419	.200	.747	-46	.014	-10.4	-1.0	.106	.000	.000

Win Probability

Win Probability
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	cWPA	cWPA+	cWPA-	acLI	cClutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2021	20-33	-89.6	-9.0	859	-8.5	7.0	-15.5%	.94	-9.0	-0.1	-5.5%	4.3%	-9.8%	1.00	-0.2%	-104.0	-10.6	1.00	-98.2	3.84	5
2	Justin Verlander	2005	2020	22-37	-10.4	-1.0	60	-1.1	0.2	-1.3%	1.00	-1.2	0.1	-0.7%	0.1%	-0.8%	.94	-0.1%	-14.6	-1.5	1.04	-13.3		0

Ratio

Ratio
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/W	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GB/FB	GO/AO	IP%	LD%	HR/FB	IF/FB
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2021	20-33	0.1%	24.9%	4.0%	1.5%	12%	6.21	3.3	698.0	17.5	2.36	4.33	58%	12%	0.8%	9%
2	Justin Verlander	2005	2020	22-37	0.0%	40.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		2.1		50.0	1.60	3.13	43%	8%	0.0%	10%

Baserunning

Baserunning
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	OOB1	OOB2	OOB3	OOBHm	BT	XBT%	1stS	1stS2	1stS3	1stD	1stD3	1stDH	2ndS	2ndS3	2ndSH
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2021	20-33	15	0	30%	242	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	14	1	9	2	2	14	23%	31	23	7	8	8	0	13	7	5
2	Justin Verlander	2005	2020	22-37	0	0	40%	6	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Situational

Situational
							Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2021	20-33	847	72.4%	113	17	3	5	0	0	0	3.84	1	0	35	1	0	1	0	0	153	110	71.9%	183	15	8.2%	191	61	31.9%	595	42	7.1%	34	9	26.5%	33	25	75.8%	0
2	Justin Verlander	2005	2020	22-37	60	33.3%	5	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	13	10	76.9%	17	2	11.8%	21	5	23.8%	47	1	2.1%	3	0	0.0%	3	3	100.0%	0

Pitches

Pitches
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	PA	Pit	Pit/PA	Str	Str%	L/Str	S/Str	F/Str	I/Str	AS/Str	I/Bll	AS/Pit	Con	1stS	30%	30c	30s	20%	20c	20s	31%	31c	31s	L/SO	S/SO	L/SO%	PAu	Pitu	Stru
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2021	20-33	849	3092	3.64	2169	70.1%	29.6%	16.6%	26.2%	27.6%	70.4%	0.0%	49.4%	76.5%	29.6%	2.5%	21	0	8.4%	71	11	3.9%	33	4	57	143	27.0%	0	0	0
2	Justin Verlander	2005	2020	22-37	60	202	3.37	149	73.8%	20.8%	25.5%	29.5%	24.2%	79.2%	0.0%	58.4%	67.8%	58.3%	1.7%	1	0	8.3%	5	2	1.7%	1	1	6	15	25.0%	0	0	0

Postseason

Postseason
Rk	Name	From	To	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	Clayton Kershaw	2008	2020	20-32	38	52	39	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	13	.154	.267	.180	.446	7	0	0	7	0	0
2	Justin Verlander	2006	2019	23-36	31	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0

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