Head to head · Career batting

David Ortiz vs Chase Utley

In 2016 David Ortiz has been worth 3.0 more wins. Both lines are computed from play-by-play on the same constants, so they are measured the same way rather than quoted from two sources.

Two of the 25 most valuable batting careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

David Ortiz BOS

Chase Utley LAD

Career

Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2005 begins at 2005, not at his real first game.

Career batting totals. AVG and SLG are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; OBP, wOBA and wRC+ need each season’s own constants and are left to the season table.
Statistic	David Ortiz	Chase Utley
G	1,674	1,793
PA	7,220	7,424
H	1,775	1,782
2B	438	390
3B	11	55
HR	411	244
RBI	1,290	947
BB	1,000	698
SO	1,195	1,131
SB	13	148
AVG	.289	.276
SLG	.565	.467
WAR	48.8	54.0

2016 season

2016 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	David Ortiz	Chase Utley
G	151	137
PA	626	565
H	169	129
HR	38	14
RBI	127	52
SB	2	2
AVG	.315	.252
OBP	.401	.319
SLG	.620	.396
OPS	1.021	.716
ISO	.305	.145
BB%	12.8%	7.1%
K%	13.7%	20.4%
wOBA	.425	.315
wRC+	161	101
WAR	5.1	2.1

Postseason

Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.

Every published postseason, batting, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	David Ortiz	Chase Utley
G	50	67
PA	219	258
H	49	47
HR	10	10
RBI	30	27
BB	41	39
SO	37	52
SB	0	11
AVG	.283	.224
OBP	.416	.364
SLG	.549	.410
OPS	.965	.774

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season’s own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page. To put these two beside a third, the comparison page takes up to four.