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.

Max Scherzer TOR

Justin Steele CHC

2025 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
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

Career

Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2015 begins at 2015, 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 table above.
Statistic	Max Scherzer	Justin Steele
G	292	102
GS	292	91
IP	1,796.1	506.2
W	133	32
L	75	22
SV	0	0
SO	2,222	517
BB	421	155
ERA	3.08	3.30
WHIP	1.00	1.21
K/9	11.1	9.2
BB/9	2.1	2.8
HR/9	1.2	0.9
WAR	42.3	9.7

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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.