Head to head · Career batting

Matt Holliday vs Manny Machado

In 2018 Manny Machado has been worth 6.1 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

Manny Machado BAL

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	Manny Machado
G	1,780	2,052
PA	7,542	8,872
H	1,980	2,197
2B	437	418
3B	29	18
HR	302	399
RBI	1,163	1,235
BB	771	739
SO	1,276	1,577
SB	105	118
AVG	.300	.274
SLG	.512	.480
WAR	51.1	52.3

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Matt Holliday	Manny Machado
G	25	162
PA	65	709
H	15	188
HR	2	37
RBI	3	107
SB	0	14
AVG	.283	.297
OBP	.415	.367
SLG	.434	.538
OPS	.849	.905
ISO	.151	.241
BB%	18.5%	9.9%
K%	27.7%	14.7%
wOBA	.381	.380
wRC+	133	144
WAR	0.4	6.5

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	Manny Machado
G	77	57
PA	314	243
H	71	49
HR	13	13
RBI	37	32
BB	18	18
SO	62	60
SB	1	1
AVG	.245	.222
OBP	.303	.282
SLG	.421	.439
OPS	.723	.721

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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.