Keidel: Clayton Kershaw, MLB’s Best Pitcher, Should Not Win NL MVP

By Jason Keidel
From the desk of Captain Obvious…
Clayton Kershaw is good. Really good.
How good? It’s rare to dismiss the rest of a sport in the wake of a single player’s dominance or eminence, but Kershaw is not only simply the best pitcher on the planet, it’s not particularly close. The Dodgers starter just became the first pitcher in MLB history to strike out 13 batters in a complete game while throwing fewer than 100 pitches. Yeah, that kind of good.
As SB Nation no