Sale And Kershaw Vs. Non-Pitchers

Here are the stats for this year. They excluded any PAs against pitchers. There is a second table below using career stats and discussion follows the first table

Stat	Sale	Kershaw
HR%	0.014	0.015
BB%	0.060	0.040
SO%	0.290	0.320
SO/W	4.88	7.94
BA	0.194	0.197
OBP	0.242	0.230
SLG	0.269	0.303
OPS	0.510	0.532
ERA+	210	201
Park Factor	101	96
Team DER	0.688	0.692
Team Field%	0.983	0.985

The percents are using PAs as the denominator. I included HBP with walks. So Sale is just a bit better on HR% while Kershaw does much better on strikeouts and walks.

But Sale allows a lower OPS while pitching in a tougher park for pitchers. The 101 means that his park allows 1% more runs while Dodger Stadium allows 4% fewer.

Sale's ERA adjusted for the league average and park effects is better (210 vs. 201 in ERA+). Those numbers mean that once you adjust their ERAs for park effects, they both are a little below half the league ERA. Then that gets divided into 1 and multiplied by 100)

Now fielders could help Sale get a lower OPS and better ERA+. But the Sox defensive efficiency ratings (DER) is a bit lower than the Dodgers' so Sale has less help behind him from his fielders. It shows what % of balls in play get turned into outs. Those could be affected by the parks somehow though.

Here are the career numbers. This time PAs had IBBs excluded (as did walks). Neither has any IBBs this year. Keshaw has had a longer career so far. But Sale compares favorably

Stat	Sale	Kershaw
PA	2426	4767
HR%	0.023	0.017
BB%	0.070	0.081
SO%	0.268	0.247
SO/W	3.80	3.05
BA	0.221	0.218
OBP	0.278	0.284
SLG	0.338	0.324
OPS	0.616	0.608
ERA+	151	149