Head to head · Career batting

Albert Pujols vs Christian Yelich

In 2022 Christian Yelich has been worth 0.7 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.

Albert Pujols STL

Christian Yelich 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	Albert Pujols	Christian Yelich
G	2,447	1,731
PA	10,313	7,527
H	2,597	1,845
2B	497	350
3B	7	37
HR	543	245
RBI	1,714	910
BB	1,069	883
SO	1,125	1,683
SB	104	232
AVG	.287	.282
SLG	.523	.459
WAR	55.2	48.5

2022 season

2022 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Albert Pujols	Christian Yelich
G	109	154
PA	351	671
H	83	145
HR	24	14
RBI	68	57
SB	1	19
AVG	.270	.252
OBP	.345	.355
SLG	.550	.383
OPS	.895	.738
ISO	.280	.130
BB%	8.0%	13.1%
K%	15.7%	24.1%
wOBA	.382	.330
wRC+	153	115
WAR	2.3	3.0

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	Christian Yelich
G	60	39
PA	238	170
H	63	33
HR	11	2
RBI	33	8
BB	35	26
SO	32	39
SB	1	9
AVG	.317	.232
OBP	.424	.359
SLG	.548	.324
OPS	.972	.683

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More head to heads

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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.