Head to head · Career batting

Joey Votto vs Christian Yelich

In 2023 Christian Yelich has been worth 2.9 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 batting careers on this site, 2005–2025, by dbWAR.

Joey Votto CIN

Christian Yelich MIL

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 batting totals. AVG and SLG are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; OBP, wOBA and wRC+ need each season’s own constants and are left to the season table.
Statistic	Joey Votto	Christian Yelich
G	2,052	1,731
PA	8,746	7,527
H	2,135	1,845
2B	459	350
3B	22	37
HR	356	245
RBI	1,144	910
BB	1,365	883
SO	1,640	1,683
SB	80	232
AVG	.294	.282
SLG	.511	.459
WAR	68.4	48.5

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Joey Votto	Christian Yelich
G	64	144
PA	242	632
H	42	153
HR	14	19
RBI	38	76
SB	0	28
AVG	.202	.278
OBP	.314	.370
SLG	.433	.447
OPS	.747	.818
ISO	.231	.169
BB%	11.2%	12.3%
K%	25.6%	22.2%
wOBA	.327	.356
wRC+	105	123
WAR	0.6	3.5

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, batting, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Joey Votto	Christian Yelich
G	11	39
PA	47	170
H	10	33
HR	0	2
RBI	1	8
BB	5	26
SO	12	39
SB	0	9
AVG	.244	.232
OBP	.319	.359
SLG	.244	.324
OPS	.563	.683

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season’s own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that 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.