Head to head · Career batting

David Ortiz vs José Ramírez

In 2016 David Ortiz has been worth 1.1 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

José Ramírez CLE

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	José Ramírez
G	1,674	1,715
PA	7,220	7,303
H	1,775	1,779
2B	438	425
3B	11	43
HR	411	297
RBI	1,290	1,002
BB	1,000	726
SO	1,195	871
SB	13	324
AVG	.289	.276
SLG	.565	.494
WAR	48.8	55.3

2016 season

2016 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	David Ortiz	José Ramírez
G	151	149
PA	626	618
H	169	176
HR	38	11
RBI	127	76
SB	2	22
AVG	.315	.312
OBP	.401	.363
SLG	.620	.462
OPS	1.021	.825
ISO	.305	.150
BB%	12.8%	7.1%
K%	13.7%	10.0%
wOBA	.425	.358
wRC+	161	118
WAR	5.1	4.0

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	José Ramírez
G	50	56
PA	219	238
H	49	52
HR	10	6
RBI	30	27
BB	41	27
SO	37	39
SB	0	5
AVG	.283	.250
OBP	.416	.336
SLG	.549	.399
OPS	.965	.735

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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.