Head to head · Career batting

Matt Holliday vs Albert Pujols

In 2018 Matt Holliday has been worth 0.8 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.

Matt Holliday COL

Albert Pujols 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	Matt Holliday	Albert Pujols
G	1,780	2,447
PA	7,542	10,313
H	1,980	2,597
2B	437	497
3B	29	7
HR	302	543
RBI	1,163	1,714
BB	771	1,069
SO	1,276	1,125
SB	105	104
AVG	.300	.287
SLG	.512	.523
WAR	51.1	55.2

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Matt Holliday	Albert Pujols
G	25	117
PA	65	498
H	15	114
HR	2	19
RBI	3	64
SB	0	1
AVG	.283	.245
OBP	.415	.289
SLG	.434	.411
OPS	.849	.700
ISO	.151	.166
BB%	18.5%	5.6%
K%	27.7%	13.1%
wOBA	.381	.302
wRC+	133	89
WAR	0.4	-0.4

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	Matt Holliday	Albert Pujols
G	77	60
PA	314	238
H	71	63
HR	13	11
RBI	37	33
BB	18	35
SO	62	32
SB	1	1
AVG	.245	.317
OBP	.303	.424
SLG	.421	.548
OPS	.723	.972

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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.