It's almost like there's something flawed with the Win statistic ;)
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 25 June 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
I knew I was teeing one up there...Had no idea the percentage was that high, though. Era would explain some of that, yeah; I also wonder if that includes runs scored for the entire game, i.e. any runs scored after the pitcher leaves. So a guy could leave with a 2-1 lead in the seventh, his team scores four runs in the eighth/ninth, and it ends up looking like he won a blowout.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
Since his terrible start against the Cubs:
36 IP, 22 H, 51 K, 6 BB, 2 ER.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
pretty sure that includes 4 shutouts in his last 5 outings (incl one stretch of 3 in a row!) i think maybe you mean against the mets, clem, when he gave up 3 or 4 homers june 19
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
June 19 against the Mets, you're right--the Cubs go back to May 28. He had three good starts between the two.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Clayton Kershaw disappeared into the trainers' room after the top half of the second inning, and now Ross Stripling is warming up. Looks like he will take it from here. No word yet on what might be ailing Kershaw, who has been pitching at his best.
― qualx, Sunday, 23 July 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
dammit. missed the beginning of the game, just tuned in to see him leave the field and there's been no conjecture what's wrong except he was holding his hip as he walked off after the top of the 2nd
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 23 July 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
Who's the idiot who titled this thread?
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
@BNightengaleClayton Kershaw will go on DL, #Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says. with no timetable on return; tests scheduled Monday on his back.
― Andy K, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
fuck
― qualx, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
Best player, best pitcher, and #1 future-superstar all in the same season--and you can throw in Beltre, chasing two major milestones.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
:(
― k3vin k., Monday, 24 July 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
Sinking feeling he's going to take the Koufax parallels too far.
― clemenza, Monday, 24 July 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
btw Koufax started 314 games (+ 70some relief outings early on), threw 2324 innings
Kershaw: 284 starts, 1901 innings
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
koufax also started when injuries were still treated with leeches and miracle elixirs
― qualx, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
yep, that's why cross-era comparisons are foggy
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
out for 4-6 weeks apparently.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 24 July 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
guess Scherzer will grab Cy #3 barring a total collapse and an incredible Kershaw komeback
― nomar, Monday, 24 July 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
such a bummer
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 24 July 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
(xpost) It's in my own best interest for Scherzer to win (a HOF bet I posted about elsewhere), but I can still easily see Kershaw winning. Scherzer's last start was poor; if he has a couple of more mediocre starts while Kershaw's out, and Kershaw comes back with a strong September, it'd be close, I think. Kershaw's numbers are frozen at a pretty impressive place for the next four weeks.
Bill James's leaderboard is tightening (in the original article he designated 600 as "a historic level").
Kershaw - 610.1Scherzer - 609.3Sale - 596.7Kluber - 585.1
― clemenza, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/245168842/dodgers-clayton-kershaws-back-injury-better/
Can't see that there's any incentive to re-activate him too soon with their lead.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 July 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Went to the game last night. So damn much fun thx in part to G'ints' bullpen
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 29 July 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
clayton kershaw is expected to make his triple-a debut saturday in oklahoma city
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
What was the true nature of Kershaw's crap start?
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20669761/clayton-kershaw-thin-line-one-bad-start-catastrophe
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
Altherred history
https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/9/18/16331508/dodgers-clayton-kershaw-first-grand-slam-phillies-aaron-altherr
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link
the streak lives
Kershaw's career ERA after each season of his career:4.263.363.172.882.792.602.482.432.372.36https://t.co/UUjKUuvBAH— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) October 1, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Hannah HochevarFun to watch the Kershaw arm angle last night. Seemed like he dropped down a few times again. Announcers were saying that some of his problems this year are due to hitters being more geared for low balls in general. Agree?
Jeff SullivanHe's worked lower than he usually does this season. Not that his season was in any way bad. And I don't have a good explanation for the postseason dingers, aside from, welpThe drop-down slot continues to intrigue me, because it's interesting while also not being so helpful. Kershaw hasn't pitched all that well from the second arm slot, but he's still doing it in the playoffs, suggesting that he thinks it's worth the trickDid it four times last night. Two strikes, all fastballs, all elevated
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
Dallas Cankle: If Clayton Kershaw opts-out next year what’s the highest Farhan Friedman goes before saying uncle?
Paul Swydan: I think that’ll actually be a really interesting discussion. They don’t seem like the kind of front office who will be swayed by sentiment, and if Kershaw has back problems for a third consecutive season in 2018, I could see the Dodgers not making much of an effort to keep him at all.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
what's up
https://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/pitcher-spotlight-the-crack-in-clayton-kershaws-armor/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
just came to post that story. something I've been noticing and dreading for a year or so now
― k3vin k., Monday, 21 May 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
Welp:
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23664559/los-angeles-dodgers-ace-clayton-kershaw-mri-back-tightens-1st-game-back
All 20 of Clayton Kershaw's four-seam fastballs were 90.0 mph or slower in his outing Thursday night, according to ESPN Stats & Information. Last year, not a single one of his 1,142 four-seam fastballs was 90.0 mph or slower.
― omar little, Friday, 1 June 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
yikes
― k3vin k., Friday, 1 June 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
His back was giving him problems though. He probably returned too soon.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 1 June 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
Seems like he is back for at least a month on the DL.
What a bummer.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 2 June 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
Won his 150th this afternoon.
Hard to know where he's at right now. He hasn't been as dominant this year, but he has been surprisingly consistent. His WHIP and K/BB ratios are back where they were four or five years ago, before he started posting off-the-chart numbers; his ERA and ERA+ match his career line. In 18 starts, he's given four runs once, three runs twice, no runs twice, and all the rest were one or two runs--as I say, consistent. His average Game Score is 60; in his MVP year, it was 70. If he gets healthy and settles in where he is right now, that'd be fine; no longer the best pitcher in baseball, but consistently one of the five or six best. "If he gets healthy," though, contains a lot--he's had three abbreviated seasons in a row.
― clemenza, Monday, 20 August 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
adjusting
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/clayton-kershaws-disappearing-fastball/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 September 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
kershaw trivia: the only time his mouth is not hanging wide open is when he's delivering a pitch
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 02:52 (five years ago) link
off that point a bit, Morbs, it is interesting to see the top SPs in MLB this year and how the vast majority of them don't just have more strikeouts than innings pitched, but substantially more to what must be a historic degree. and Kershaw of all people is one of the comparative few from that group whose Ks are less than 9 per 9 IP.
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
He's been on the DL twice this year. Can't remember the last time he had a healthy season tbqh... 2015? or '13?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
...posted in "Stay Healthy, Please: The Clayton Kershaw Thread" lol
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
I must bear the responsibility for putting the curse on him.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
Kristen: Kershaw has been trending downwards the past few seasons in terms of FIP, FB velocity, SwStr%, Hard Hit%, etc. Add his contract demands and is it possible his market won’t be huge after all?
Jay Jaffe: His market may not even be bigger than the team that still has exclusive rights to negotiate with him. But the extended negotiating period signals that he’d prefer to stay, and I think it’s just a matter of finding the right number. The Dodgers are clearly comfortable paying a premium to keep him.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
his hardest fastball in game five was 91 mph : /
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 November 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
Peak Kershaw clearly history, but can he still be a co-ace?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
he's still pretty good, just not $35m good. especially if he's going to miss 6-10 starts each year. ehh, the dodgers can afford it
i think buehler's the ace now, tho
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 November 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
best decision from kershaw's perspective would seem to be extending his deal with dodgers, for sure. i'll be kind of shocked if he signs with any other team
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 November 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
i'm not writing Kershaw off quite yet, he's young and a guy like Verlander had his Cy Young peak, went through worse, and bounced back to peak form.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
he's obviously no kershaw, but i'm interested to see what happens with bumgarner too. year and a half younger, but his peripherals have declined even more. the giants have a $12m team option for 2019 at the end of an *extremely* team-friendly contract and i don't think he'll get the contract, at age 30, that he was expecting three years ago
the giants should obviously trade him but they'll probably sign sabathia, bring back marco scutaro and give the boys one more shot
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
i think sabathia stays w nyy on some kind of mutual wakefield-type deal
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 2 November 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
I'd say Kershaw's back is probably more a drag on his effectiveness than losing some speed on his fastball. He still has top level control and movement.
I kinda think CC pitches, it will be for the Yanks or I could see Cleveland maybe reaching out to maybe finish career where it started.
― earlnash, Friday, 2 November 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link