Head to head · Career pitching

Félix Hernández vs Adam Wainwright

In 2019 Adam Wainwright has been worth 2.6 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.

Félix Hernández SEA

Adam Wainwright STL

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	Félix Hernández	Adam Wainwright
G	419	478
GS	418	411
IP	2,729.2	2,668.1
W	169	200
L	136	128
SV	0	3
SO	2,524	2,202
BB	805	736
ERA	3.42	3.53
WHIP	1.21	1.24
K/9	8.3	7.4
BB/9	2.7	2.5
HR/9	0.9	0.8
WAR	49.6	49.9

2019 season

2019 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
Statistic	Félix Hernández	Adam Wainwright
G	15	31
GS	15	31
IP	71.2	171.2
W	1	14
SO	57	153
ERA	6.40	4.19
FIP	6.00	4.36
WHIP	1.53	1.43
K/9	7.2	8.0
BB/9	3.1	3.4
FIP−	133	97
WAR	-0.3	2.3

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	Félix Hernández	Adam Wainwright
G	—	29
GS	—	16
IP	—	114.1
W	—	4
SV	—	4
SO	—	123
BB	—	22
ERA	—	2.83
WHIP	—	1.11
K/9	—	9.7
BB/9	—	1.7

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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Adam Wainwright vs

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.