Head to head · Career batting

Adrian Beltré vs Ryan Braun

In 2018 Ryan Braun 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.

Adrian Beltré TEX

Ryan Braun MIL

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	Ryan Braun
G	1,965	1,765
PA	8,312	7,339
H	2,217	1,963
2B	460	408
3B	20	49
HR	330	352
RBI	1,197	1,154
BB	562	586
SO	1,142	1,363
SB	59	216
AVG	.291	.296
SLG	.487	.532
WAR	48.5	52.9

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Adrian Beltré	Ryan Braun
G	119	125
PA	481	447
H	118	103
HR	15	20
RBI	65	64
SB	1	11
AVG	.273	.254
OBP	.328	.313
SLG	.434	.469
OPS	.763	.782
ISO	.162	.215
BB%	7.1%	7.6%
K%	20.0%	19.0%
wOBA	.330	.334
wRC+	98	110
WAR	1.0	1.5

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	Ryan Braun
G	24	27
PA	102	114
H	25	35
HR	5	2
RBI	10	16
BB	4	6
SO	22	28
SB	0	3
AVG	.260	.330
OBP	.304	.368
SLG	.479	.491
OPS	.783	.859

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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.