It’s hard to find faults in Clayton Kershaw the regular season pitcher.
He has been the most dominant pitcher of this generation putting up a 2.43 ERA/2.75 FIP/2.98 xFIP over 2,333.0 innings pitched. From 2009 to 2020 Kershaw has only once posted an ERA above 3.00 and that was a 3.03 in 2019.
The knock against Kershaw has been his failure to live up to the standard he set in the regular season when the calendar flips to October.
In 177.1 postseason innings he’s put up a 4.31 ERA/3.81 FIP/3.42 xFIP. His strikeout (26.9% in the playoffs and 27.