Head to head · Career batting

Albert Pujols vs Mike Trout

In 2022 Mike Trout has been worth 4.1 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.

Albert Pujols STL

Mike Trout 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	Albert Pujols	Mike Trout
G	2,447	1,788
PA	10,313	7,837
H	2,597	1,878
2B	497	351
3B	7	55
HR	543	426
RBI	1,714	1,072
BB	1,069	1,174
SO	1,125	1,828
SB	104	225
AVG	.287	.290
SLG	.523	.558
WAR	55.2	89.9

2022 season

2022 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Albert Pujols	Mike Trout
G	109	119
PA	351	499
H	83	124
HR	24	40
RBI	68	80
SB	1	1
AVG	.270	.283
OBP	.345	.369
SLG	.550	.630
OPS	.895	.999
ISO	.280	.347
BB%	8.0%	10.8%
K%	15.7%	27.9%
wOBA	.382	.420
wRC+	153	173
WAR	2.3	6.4

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	Albert Pujols	Mike Trout
G	60	3
PA	238	15
H	63	1
HR	11	1
RBI	33	1
BB	35	3
SO	32	2
SB	1	0
AVG	.317	.083
OBP	.424	.267
SLG	.548	.333
OPS	.972	.600

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Albert Pujols vs

Mike Trout vs

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.