Head to head · Career batting

Matt Holliday vs Joey Votto

In 2018 Joey Votto has been worth 3.1 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.

Matt Holliday COL

Joey Votto CIN

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	Joey Votto
G	1,780	2,052
PA	7,542	8,746
H	1,980	2,135
2B	437	459
3B	29	22
HR	302	356
RBI	1,163	1,144
BB	771	1,365
SO	1,276	1,640
SB	105	80
AVG	.300	.294
SLG	.512	.511
WAR	51.1	68.4

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Matt Holliday	Joey Votto
G	25	144
PA	65	623
H	15	143
HR	2	12
RBI	3	67
SB	0	2
AVG	.283	.284
OBP	.415	.417
SLG	.434	.419
OPS	.849	.837
ISO	.151	.135
BB%	18.5%	17.3%
K%	27.7%	16.2%
wOBA	.381	.374
wRC+	133	134
WAR	0.4	3.5

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	Matt Holliday	Joey Votto
G	77	11
PA	314	47
H	71	10
HR	13	0
RBI	37	1
BB	18	5
SO	62	12
SB	1	0
AVG	.245	.244
OBP	.303	.319
SLG	.421	.244
OPS	.723	.563

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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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.