Head to head · Career pitching
Dan Haren vs Cliff Lee
In 2014 Cliff Lee has been worth 0.5 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 pitching careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.
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.
| Statistic | Dan Haren | Cliff Lee |
|---|---|---|
| G | 363 | 284 |
| GS | 361 | 280 |
| IP | 2,301.0 | 1,915.0 |
| W | 147 | 126 |
| L | 121 | 79 |
| SV | 1 | 0 |
| SO | 1,938 | 1,613 |
| BB | 461 | 355 |
| ERA | 3.70 | 3.35 |
| WHIP | 1.17 | 1.17 |
| K/9 | 7.6 | 7.6 |
| BB/9 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| HR/9 | 1.1 | 0.9 |
| WAR | 36.8 | 41.7 |
2014 season
| Statistic | Dan Haren | Cliff Lee |
|---|---|---|
| G | 32 | 13 |
| GS | 32 | 13 |
| IP | 186.0 | 81.1 |
| W | 13 | 4 |
| SO | 145 | 72 |
| ERA | 4.02 | 3.65 |
| FIP | 4.09 | 2.96 |
| WHIP | 1.18 | 1.38 |
| K/9 | 7.0 | 8.0 |
| BB/9 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| FIP− | 109 | 79 |
| WAR | 1.2 | 1.7 |
Postseason
Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.
| Statistic | Dan Haren | Cliff Lee |
|---|---|---|
| G | 2 | 11 |
| GS | 2 | 11 |
| IP | 11.0 | 82.0 |
| W | 1 | 7 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 9 | 89 |
| BB | 3 | 10 |
| ERA | 4.09 | 2.52 |
| WHIP | 1.73 | 0.93 |
| K/9 | 7.4 | 9.8 |
| BB/9 | 2.5 | 1.1 |
More head to heads
The same seasons, measured against somebody else.
FIP uses the constant solved from this season’s own runs, and FIP− is park-adjusted against the 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.

