Head to head · Career batting

Miguel Cabrera vs Paul Goldschmidt

In 2023 Paul Goldschmidt has been worth 3.5 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, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

Miguel Cabrera DET

Paul Goldschmidt STL

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	Paul Goldschmidt
G	2,548	2,169
PA	10,765	9,206
H	2,913	2,277
2B	575	490
3B	13	25
HR	466	390
RBI	1,707	1,284
BB	1,165	1,115
SO	1,873	2,065
SB	35	175
AVG	.309	.286
SLG	.520	.501
WAR	71.8	59.7

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Miguel Cabrera	Paul Goldschmidt
G	98	154
PA	370	687
H	86	159
HR	4	25
RBI	34	80
SB	0	11
AVG	.257	.268
OBP	.322	.363
SLG	.353	.447
OPS	.675	.810
ISO	.096	.179
BB%	8.4%	12.7%
K%	20.0%	23.4%
wOBA	.301	.352
wRC+	84	119
WAR	-0.6	2.9

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	Miguel Cabrera	Paul Goldschmidt
G	38	32
PA	161	121
H	39	28
HR	9	8
RBI	26	16
BB	23	11
SO	29	28
SB	3	1
AVG	.285	.262
OBP	.391	.347
SLG	.540	.533
OPS	.931	.880

Miguel Cabrera’s full profile →Paul Goldschmidt’s full profile →

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Miguel Cabrera vs

Paul Goldschmidt 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.