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Start here, with good writing: The 100 home runs hit against Clayton Kershaw
Clayton Kershaw Career Home Runs Allowed | Baseball-Reference.com
Then read my drivel:
I did some digging of my own. Since 2008, among pitchers with at least 1000 IP (Kershaw has 1645 IP), Kershaw's 1000 is 9th best, tied with Clay Buchholz (1026 IP).
First is Adam Wainwright, with 86 HR in 1310 IP. Here is the sortable leaderboard.
Among the same group of pitchers, Kershaw edges out Wainwright and King Felix for 1st in HR/9 - 0.55 for Kershaw, 0.59 for Wainwright, and 0.68 for Hernandez.
For fun:
The "Bottom 12" of the HR allowed among these pitchers is:
1. James Shields - 218 (1805 IP)
2. Jeremy Guthrie
3. Dan Haren
4. Bronson Arroyo
5. Ervin Santana
6. Cole Hamels
7. Jared Weaver
8. Aaron Harang
9. Mark Buerle
10. Jon Danks
11. Max Scherzer
12. CC Sabathia - 163 (1597 IP)
Obviously that's not a list of bums because to have over 1000 IP since 2008, you need some kind of success to stay in the league. I look at it as a list of guys who've had good and bad years (Scherzer, Sabathia), are "fly ball" pitchers (Weaver), rely on accuracy instead of heat (Buerle), or are pitchers at parks that give out home runs like candy (Arroyo, Harang at GABP, Shields in San Diego*).
*Wait a minute....
Clayton Kershaw Career Home Runs Allowed | Baseball-Reference.com
Then read my drivel:
I did some digging of my own. Since 2008, among pitchers with at least 1000 IP (Kershaw has 1645 IP), Kershaw's 1000 is 9th best, tied with Clay Buchholz (1026 IP).
First is Adam Wainwright, with 86 HR in 1310 IP. Here is the sortable leaderboard.
Among the same group of pitchers, Kershaw edges out Wainwright and King Felix for 1st in HR/9 - 0.55 for Kershaw, 0.59 for Wainwright, and 0.68 for Hernandez.
For fun:
The "Bottom 12" of the HR allowed among these pitchers is:
1. James Shields - 218 (1805 IP)
2. Jeremy Guthrie
3. Dan Haren
4. Bronson Arroyo
5. Ervin Santana
6. Cole Hamels
7. Jared Weaver
8. Aaron Harang
9. Mark Buerle
10. Jon Danks
11. Max Scherzer
12. CC Sabathia - 163 (1597 IP)
Obviously that's not a list of bums because to have over 1000 IP since 2008, you need some kind of success to stay in the league. I look at it as a list of guys who've had good and bad years (Scherzer, Sabathia), are "fly ball" pitchers (Weaver), rely on accuracy instead of heat (Buerle), or are pitchers at parks that give out home runs like candy (Arroyo, Harang at GABP, Shields in San Diego*).
*Wait a minute....
