Head to head · Career batting

Adrian Beltré vs Paul Goldschmidt

In 2018 Paul Goldschmidt has been worth 4.3 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

Paul Goldschmidt AZ

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	Paul Goldschmidt
G	1,965	2,169
PA	8,312	9,206
H	2,217	2,277
2B	460	490
3B	20	25
HR	330	390
RBI	1,197	1,284
BB	562	1,115
SO	1,142	2,065
SB	59	175
AVG	.291	.286
SLG	.487	.501
WAR	48.5	59.7

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Adrian Beltré	Paul Goldschmidt
G	119	158
PA	481	690
H	118	172
HR	15	33
RBI	65	83
SB	1	7
AVG	.273	.290
OBP	.328	.389
SLG	.434	.533
OPS	.763	.922
ISO	.162	.243
BB%	7.1%	13.0%
K%	20.0%	25.1%
wOBA	.330	.395
wRC+	98	151
WAR	1.0	5.3

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	Paul Goldschmidt
G	24	32
PA	102	121
H	25	28
HR	5	8
RBI	10	16
BB	4	11
SO	22	28
SB	0	1
AVG	.260	.262
OBP	.304	.347
SLG	.479	.533
OPS	.783	.880

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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.