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2026

Head to head · Career pitching

Dan Haren vs Max Scherzer

In 2015 Max Scherzer has been worth 5.3 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.

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 pitching totals. ERA, WHIP and the per-nine rates are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; FIP needs each season’s own constant and is left to the season table.
StatisticDan HarenMax Scherzer
G363501
GS361492
IP2,301.03,047.2
W147225
L121126
SV10
SO1,9383,557
BB461814
ERA3.703.29
WHIP1.171.09
K/97.610.5
BB/91.82.4
HR/91.11.1
WAR36.866.4

2015 season

2015 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticDan HarenMax Scherzer
G3233
GS3233
IP187.1228.2
W1114
SO132276
ERA3.602.79
FIP4.612.77
WHIP1.130.92
K/96.310.9
BB/91.81.3
FIP−11670
WAR0.76.0

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, pitching, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
StatisticDan HarenMax Scherzer
G233
GS228
IP11.0157.1
W18
SV01
SO9182
BB362
ERA4.093.78
WHIP1.731.16
K/97.410.4
BB/92.53.5

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

How these are computed

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.