Head to head · Career batting

Miguel Cabrera vs Andrew McCutchen

In 2023 Andrew McCutchen has been worth 2.3 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.

Miguel Cabrera DET

Andrew McCutchen PIT

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	Andrew McCutchen
G	2,548	2,299
PA	10,765	9,790
H	2,913	2,280
2B	575	453
3B	13	50
HR	466	333
RBI	1,707	1,157
BB	1,165	1,192
SO	1,873	1,915
SB	35	220
AVG	.309	.271
SLG	.520	.455
WAR	71.8	61.1

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Miguel Cabrera	Andrew McCutchen
G	98	112
PA	370	473
H	86	100
HR	4	12
RBI	34	43
SB	0	11
AVG	.257	.256
OBP	.322	.378
SLG	.353	.397
OPS	.675	.776
ISO	.096	.141
BB%	8.4%	15.9%
K%	20.0%	21.1%
wOBA	.301	.348
wRC+	84	118
WAR	-0.6	1.7

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	Miguel Cabrera	Andrew McCutchen
G	38	13
PA	161	53
H	39	11
HR	9	0
RBI	26	1
BB	23	7
SO	29	7
SB	3	0
AVG	.285	.239
OBP	.391	.340
SLG	.540	.261
OPS	.931	.600

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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.