Head to head · Career batting

David Ortiz vs Albert Pujols

In 2016 David Ortiz has been worth 4.1 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

Albert Pujols LAA

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	Albert Pujols
G	1,674	2,447
PA	7,220	10,313
H	1,775	2,597
2B	438	497
3B	11	7
HR	411	543
RBI	1,290	1,714
BB	1,000	1,069
SO	1,195	1,125
SB	13	104
AVG	.289	.287
SLG	.565	.523
WAR	48.8	55.2

2016 season

2016 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	David Ortiz	Albert Pujols
G	151	152
PA	626	650
H	169	159
HR	38	31
RBI	127	119
SB	2	4
AVG	.315	.268
OBP	.401	.323
SLG	.620	.457
OPS	1.021	.780
ISO	.305	.189
BB%	12.8%	7.5%
K%	13.7%	11.5%
wOBA	.425	.334
wRC+	161	112
WAR	5.1	1.0

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	Albert Pujols
G	50	60
PA	219	238
H	49	63
HR	10	11
RBI	30	33
BB	41	35
SO	37	32
SB	0	1
AVG	.283	.317
OBP	.416	.424
SLG	.549	.548
OPS	.965	.972

David Ortiz’s full profile →Albert Pujols’s full profile →

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

David Ortiz vs

Albert Pujols vs

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.