Head to head · Career batting

Miguel Cabrera vs David Ortiz

In 2016 David Ortiz has been worth 0.1 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.

Miguel Cabrera DET

David Ortiz BOS

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	Miguel Cabrera	David Ortiz
G	2,548	1,674
PA	10,765	7,220
H	2,913	1,775
2B	575	438
3B	13	11
HR	466	411
RBI	1,707	1,290
BB	1,165	1,000
SO	1,873	1,195
SB	35	13
AVG	.309	.289
SLG	.520	.565
WAR	71.8	48.8

2016 season

2016 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Miguel Cabrera	David Ortiz
G	158	151
PA	679	626
H	188	169
HR	38	38
RBI	108	127
SB	0	2
AVG	.316	.315
OBP	.393	.401
SLG	.563	.620
OPS	.956	1.021
ISO	.247	.305
BB%	11.0%	12.8%
K%	17.1%	13.7%
wOBA	.403	.425
wRC+	154	161
WAR	5.0	5.1

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	Miguel Cabrera	David Ortiz
G	38	50
PA	161	219
H	39	49
HR	9	10
RBI	26	30
BB	23	41
SO	29	37
SB	3	0
AVG	.285	.283
OBP	.391	.416
SLG	.540	.549
OPS	.931	.965

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Miguel Cabrera vs

David Ortiz vs

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.