Head to head · Career batting

Miguel Cabrera vs Bryce Harper

In 2023 Bryce Harper has been worth 4.3 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

Bryce Harper PHI

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	Bryce Harper
G	2,548	1,946
PA	10,765	8,358
H	2,913	1,956
2B	575	433
3B	13	27
HR	466	392
RBI	1,707	1,138
BB	1,165	1,212
SO	1,873	1,802
SB	35	159
AVG	.309	.279
SLG	.520	.516
WAR	71.8	63.4

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Miguel Cabrera	Bryce Harper
G	98	126
PA	370	546
H	86	134
HR	4	21
RBI	34	72
SB	0	11
AVG	.257	.293
OBP	.322	.401
SLG	.353	.499
OPS	.675	.900
ISO	.096	.206
BB%	8.4%	14.7%
K%	20.0%	21.8%
wOBA	.301	.386
wRC+	84	146
WAR	-0.6	3.7

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	Bryce Harper
G	38	60
PA	161	263
H	39	60
HR	9	18
RBI	26	36
BB	23	38
SO	29	61
SB	3	8
AVG	.285	.271
OBP	.391	.382
SLG	.540	.593
OPS	.931	.974

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Miguel Cabrera vs

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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.