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2026

Head to head · Career pitching

Cole Hamels vs CC Sabathia

In 2019 Cole Hamels has been worth 2.5 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.

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.
StatisticCole HamelsCC Sabathia
G423435
GS422434
IP2,698.02,801.1
W163197
L122126
SV00
SO2,5602,493
BB767778
ERA3.433.63
WHIP1.181.24
K/98.58.0
BB/92.62.5
HR/91.01.0
WAR47.349.0

2019 season

2019 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticCole HamelsCC Sabathia
G2723
GS2722
IP141.2107.1
W75
SO143107
ERA3.814.95
FIP4.095.66
WHIP1.391.41
K/99.19.0
BB/93.63.3
FIP−91126
WAR2.3-0.2

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.
StatisticCole HamelsCC Sabathia
G1725
GS1622
IP100.1124.1
W79
SV00
SO93116
BB2758
ERA3.414.34
WHIP1.101.52
K/98.38.4
BB/92.44.2

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.