Head to head · Career batting

Miguel Cabrera vs José Ramírez

In 2023 José Ramírez has been worth 5.0 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

José Ramírez CLE

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	José Ramírez
G	2,548	1,715
PA	10,765	7,303
H	2,913	1,779
2B	575	425
3B	13	43
HR	466	297
RBI	1,707	1,002
BB	1,165	726
SO	1,873	871
SB	35	324
AVG	.309	.276
SLG	.520	.494
WAR	71.8	55.3

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Miguel Cabrera	José Ramírez
G	98	156
PA	370	691
H	86	172
HR	4	24
RBI	34	80
SB	0	28
AVG	.257	.282
OBP	.322	.356
SLG	.353	.475
OPS	.675	.831
ISO	.096	.193
BB%	8.4%	10.6%
K%	20.0%	10.6%
wOBA	.301	.348
wRC+	84	123
WAR	-0.6	4.4

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	José Ramírez
G	38	56
PA	161	238
H	39	52
HR	9	6
RBI	26	27
BB	23	27
SO	29	39
SB	3	5
AVG	.285	.250
OBP	.391	.336
SLG	.540	.399
OPS	.931	.735

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More head to heads

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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.