Head to head · Career batting

Adrian Beltré vs Miguel Cabrera

In 2018 Adrian Beltré has been worth 0.3 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

Miguel Cabrera DET

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	Miguel Cabrera
G	1,965	2,548
PA	8,312	10,765
H	2,217	2,913
2B	460	575
3B	20	13
HR	330	466
RBI	1,197	1,707
BB	562	1,165
SO	1,142	1,873
SB	59	35
AVG	.291	.309
SLG	.487	.520
WAR	48.5	71.8

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Adrian Beltré	Miguel Cabrera
G	119	38
PA	481	157
H	118	40
HR	15	3
RBI	65	22
SB	1	0
AVG	.273	.299
OBP	.328	.395
SLG	.434	.448
OPS	.763	.843
ISO	.162	.149
BB%	7.1%	14.0%
K%	20.0%	17.2%
wOBA	.330	.364
wRC+	98	134
WAR	1.0	0.7

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	Miguel Cabrera
G	24	38
PA	102	161
H	25	39
HR	5	9
RBI	10	26
BB	4	23
SO	22	29
SB	0	3
AVG	.260	.285
OBP	.304	.391
SLG	.479	.540
OPS	.783	.931

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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.