Head to head · Career batting

Miguel Cabrera vs Manny Machado

In 2023 Manny Machado has been worth 2.9 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

Manny Machado SD

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	Manny Machado
G	2,548	2,052
PA	10,765	8,872
H	2,913	2,197
2B	575	418
3B	13	18
HR	466	399
RBI	1,707	1,235
BB	1,165	739
SO	1,873	1,577
SB	35	118
AVG	.309	.274
SLG	.520	.480
WAR	71.8	52.3

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Miguel Cabrera	Manny Machado
G	98	138
PA	370	601
H	86	140
HR	4	30
RBI	34	91
SB	0	3
AVG	.257	.258
OBP	.322	.319
SLG	.353	.462
OPS	.675	.782
ISO	.096	.204
BB%	8.4%	8.3%
K%	20.0%	18.1%
wOBA	.301	.335
wRC+	84	113
WAR	-0.6	2.3

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	Manny Machado
G	38	57
PA	161	243
H	39	49
HR	9	13
RBI	26	32
BB	23	18
SO	29	60
SB	3	1
AVG	.285	.222
OBP	.391	.282
SLG	.540	.439
OPS	.931	.721

Miguel Cabrera’s full profile →Manny Machado’s full profile →

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Miguel Cabrera vs

Manny Machado 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.