Head to head · Career pitching

Cole Hamels vs Zack Wheeler

In 2020 Zack Wheeler has been worth 1.8 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.

Cole Hamels ATL

Zack Wheeler PHI

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.
Statistic	Cole Hamels	Zack Wheeler
G	423	311
GS	422	311
IP	2,698.0	1,890.1
W	163	127
L	122	80
SV	0	0
SO	2,560	2,013
BB	767	537
ERA	3.43	3.26
WHIP	1.18	1.13
K/9	8.5	9.6
BB/9	2.6	2.6
HR/9	1.0	0.9
WAR	47.3	41.3

2020 season

2020 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
Statistic	Cole Hamels	Zack Wheeler
G	1	11
GS	1	11
IP	3.1	71.0
W	0	4
SO	2	53
ERA	8.10	2.92
FIP	2.89	3.22
WHIP	1.20	1.17
K/9	5.4	6.7
BB/9	2.7	2.0
FIP−	65	72
WAR	0.1	1.9

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.
Statistic	Cole Hamels	Zack Wheeler
G	17	13
GS	16	11
IP	100.1	74.1
W	7	4
SV	0	0
SO	93	80
BB	27	17
ERA	3.41	2.30
WHIP	1.10	0.77
K/9	8.3	9.7
BB/9	2.4	2.1

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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.