Head to head · Career batting

Matt Holliday vs José Ramírez

In 2018 José Ramírez has been worth 7.3 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

José Ramírez CLE

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	José Ramírez
G	1,780	1,715
PA	7,542	7,303
H	1,980	1,779
2B	437	425
3B	29	43
HR	302	297
RBI	1,163	1,002
BB	771	726
SO	1,276	871
SB	105	324
AVG	.300	.276
SLG	.512	.494
WAR	51.1	55.3

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Matt Holliday	José Ramírez
G	25	157
PA	65	698
H	15	156
HR	2	39
RBI	3	105
SB	0	34
AVG	.283	.270
OBP	.415	.387
SLG	.434	.552
OPS	.849	.939
ISO	.151	.282
BB%	18.5%	15.2%
K%	27.7%	11.5%
wOBA	.381	.397
wRC+	133	149
WAR	0.4	7.7

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	José Ramírez
G	77	56
PA	314	238
H	71	52
HR	13	6
RBI	37	27
BB	18	27
SO	62	39
SB	1	5
AVG	.245	.250
OBP	.303	.336
SLG	.421	.399
OPS	.723	.735

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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.