Head to head · Career batting

Adrian Beltré vs Albert Pujols

In 2018 Adrian Beltré has been worth 1.4 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.

Adrian Beltré TEX

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	Adrian Beltré	Albert Pujols
G	1,965	2,447
PA	8,312	10,313
H	2,217	2,597
2B	460	497
3B	20	7
HR	330	543
RBI	1,197	1,714
BB	562	1,069
SO	1,142	1,125
SB	59	104
AVG	.291	.287
SLG	.487	.523
WAR	48.5	55.2

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Adrian Beltré	Albert Pujols
G	119	117
PA	481	498
H	118	114
HR	15	19
RBI	65	64
SB	1	1
AVG	.273	.245
OBP	.328	.289
SLG	.434	.411
OPS	.763	.700
ISO	.162	.166
BB%	7.1%	5.6%
K%	20.0%	13.1%
wOBA	.330	.302
wRC+	98	89
WAR	1.0	-0.4

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	Adrian Beltré	Albert Pujols
G	24	60
PA	102	238
H	25	63
HR	5	11
RBI	10	33
BB	4	35
SO	22	32
SB	0	1
AVG	.260	.317
OBP	.304	.424
SLG	.479	.548
OPS	.783	.972

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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.