Head to head · Career batting

Matt Holliday vs Christian Yelich

In 2018 Christian Yelich has been worth 7.5 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.

Matt Holliday COL

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	Matt Holliday	Christian Yelich
G	1,780	1,731
PA	7,542	7,527
H	1,980	1,845
2B	437	350
3B	29	37
HR	302	245
RBI	1,163	910
BB	771	883
SO	1,276	1,683
SB	105	232
AVG	.300	.282
SLG	.512	.459
WAR	51.1	48.5

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Matt Holliday	Christian Yelich
G	25	146
PA	65	651
H	15	187
HR	2	36
RBI	3	110
SB	0	22
AVG	.283	.326
OBP	.415	.402
SLG	.434	.598
OPS	.849	1.000
ISO	.151	.272
BB%	18.5%	10.4%
K%	27.7%	20.7%
wOBA	.381	.427
wRC+	133	175
WAR	0.4	7.9

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	Christian Yelich
G	77	39
PA	314	170
H	71	33
HR	13	2
RBI	37	8
BB	18	26
SO	62	39
SB	1	9
AVG	.245	.232
OBP	.303	.359
SLG	.421	.324
OPS	.723	.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.