Head to head · Career batting

David Ortiz vs Christian Yelich

In 2016 David Ortiz has been worth 0.5 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, 2005–2025, by dbWAR.

David Ortiz BOS

Christian Yelich MIA

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	Christian Yelich
G	1,674	1,731
PA	7,220	7,527
H	1,775	1,845
2B	438	350
3B	11	37
HR	411	245
RBI	1,290	910
BB	1,000	883
SO	1,195	1,683
SB	13	232
AVG	.289	.282
SLG	.565	.459
WAR	48.8	48.5

2016 season

2016 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	David Ortiz	Christian Yelich
G	151	154
PA	626	659
H	169	172
HR	38	21
RBI	127	98
SB	2	9
AVG	.315	.298
OBP	.401	.376
SLG	.620	.483
OPS	1.021	.859
ISO	.305	.185
BB%	12.8%	10.9%
K%	13.7%	20.9%
wOBA	.425	.371
wRC+	161	140
WAR	5.1	4.6

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	Christian Yelich
G	50	39
PA	219	170
H	49	33
HR	10	2
RBI	30	8
BB	41	26
SO	37	39
SB	0	9
AVG	.283	.232
OBP	.416	.359
SLG	.549	.324
OPS	.965	.683

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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.