Head to head · Career batting

David Ortiz vs David Wright

In 2016 David Ortiz has been worth 4.2 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

David Wright NYM

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	David Wright
G	1,674	1,516
PA	7,220	6,589
H	1,775	1,700
2B	438	373
3B	11	25
HR	411	228
RBI	1,290	930
BB	1,000	748
SO	1,195	1,252
SB	13	190
AVG	.289	.296
SLG	.565	.489
WAR	48.8	51.9

2016 season

2016 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	David Ortiz	David Wright
G	151	37
PA	626	164
H	169	31
HR	38	7
RBI	127	14
SB	2	3
AVG	.315	.226
OBP	.401	.350
SLG	.620	.438
OPS	1.021	.788
ISO	.305	.212
BB%	12.8%	15.9%
K%	13.7%	33.5%
wOBA	.425	.348
wRC+	161	119
WAR	5.1	0.9

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	David Wright
G	50	24
PA	219	106
H	49	18
HR	10	2
RBI	30	13
BB	41	15
SO	37	28
SB	0	1
AVG	.283	.198
OBP	.416	.311
SLG	.549	.319
OPS	.965	.630

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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.