Head to head · Career pitching
David Price vs Zack Wheeler
In 2022 Zack Wheeler has been worth 3.6 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.
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 | David Price | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 400 | 311 |
| GS | 322 | 311 |
| IP | 2,143.2 | 1,890.1 |
| W | 157 | 127 |
| L | 82 | 80 |
| SV | 3 | 0 |
| SO | 2,076 | 2,013 |
| BB | 562 | 537 |
| ERA | 3.32 | 3.26 |
| WHIP | 1.16 | 1.13 |
| K/9 | 8.7 | 9.6 |
| BB/9 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
| HR/9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| WAR | 40.8 | 41.3 |
2022 season
| Statistic | David Price | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 40 | 26 |
| GS | 0 | 26 |
| IP | 40.1 | 153.0 |
| W | 2 | 12 |
| SO | 37 | 163 |
| ERA | 2.45 | 2.82 |
| FIP | 3.88 | 2.89 |
| WHIP | 1.17 | 1.04 |
| K/9 | 8.3 | 9.6 |
| BB/9 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| FIP− | 98 | 73 |
| WAR | 0.3 | 3.9 |
Postseason
Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.
| Statistic | David Price | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 23 | 13 |
| GS | 14 | 11 |
| IP | 99.1 | 74.1 |
| W | 5 | 4 |
| SV | 1 | 0 |
| SO | 91 | 80 |
| BB | 28 | 17 |
| ERA | 4.62 | 2.30 |
| WHIP | 1.20 | 0.77 |
| K/9 | 8.2 | 9.7 |
| BB/9 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
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.