Head to head · 2025 pitching
Max Scherzer vs Justin Steele
In 2025 Max Scherzer has been worth 0.1 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.
- Their 2025 seasons were among each other's nearest on rate statistics.
2025 season
| Statistic | Max Scherzer | Justin Steele |
|---|---|---|
| G | 17 | 4 |
| GS | 17 | 4 |
| IP | 85.0 | 22.2 |
| W | 5 | 3 |
| SO | 82 | 21 |
| ERA | 5.19 | 4.76 |
| FIP | 4.99 | 4.94 |
| WHIP | 1.29 | 1.15 |
| K/9 | 8.7 | 8.3 |
| BB/9 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| FIP− | 120 | 119 |
| WAR | 0.2 | 0.1 |
Postseason
Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.
| Statistic | Max Scherzer | Justin Steele |
|---|---|---|
| G | 33 | — |
| GS | 28 | — |
| IP | 157.1 | — |
| W | 8 | — |
| SV | 1 | — |
| SO | 182 | — |
| BB | 62 | — |
| ERA | 3.78 | — |
| WHIP | 1.16 | — |
| K/9 | 10.4 | — |
| BB/9 | 3.5 | — |
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 | Max Scherzer | Justin Steele |
|---|---|---|
| G | 501 | 102 |
| GS | 492 | 91 |
| IP | 3,047.2 | 506.2 |
| W | 225 | 32 |
| L | 126 | 22 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 3,557 | 517 |
| BB | 814 | 155 |
| ERA | 3.29 | 3.30 |
| WHIP | 1.09 | 1.21 |
| K/9 | 10.5 | 9.2 |
| BB/9 | 2.4 | 2.8 |
| HR/9 | 1.1 | 0.9 |
| WAR | 66.4 | 9.7 |
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.