Head to head · Career batting

Miguel Cabrera vs Freddie Freeman

In 2023 Freddie Freeman has been worth 8.4 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

Freddie Freeman LAD

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	Freddie Freeman
G	2,548	2,323
PA	10,765	10,020
H	2,913	2,598
2B	575	579
3B	13	34
HR	466	383
RBI	1,707	1,392
BB	1,165	1,136
SO	1,873	1,879
SB	35	111
AVG	.309	.299
SLG	.520	.505
WAR	71.8	70.6

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Miguel Cabrera	Freddie Freeman
G	98	161
PA	370	730
H	86	211
HR	4	29
RBI	34	102
SB	0	23
AVG	.257	.331
OBP	.322	.410
SLG	.353	.567
OPS	.675	.976
ISO	.096	.235
BB%	8.4%	9.9%
K%	20.0%	16.6%
wOBA	.301	.413
wRC+	84	171
WAR	-0.6	7.8

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	Freddie Freeman
G	38	87
PA	161	381
H	39	84
HR	9	18
RBI	26	42
BB	23	45
SO	29	71
SB	3	4
AVG	.285	.256
OBP	.391	.354
SLG	.540	.479
OPS	.931	.833

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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.