Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Albert Pujols

In 2020 Ryan Braun has been worth 0.6 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 batting careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

Ryan Braun MIL

Albert Pujols LAA

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	Ryan Braun	Albert Pujols
G	1,765	2,447
PA	7,339	10,313
H	1,963	2,597
2B	408	497
3B	49	7
HR	352	543
RBI	1,154	1,714
BB	586	1,069
SO	1,363	1,125
SB	216	104
AVG	.296	.287
SLG	.532	.523
WAR	52.9	55.2

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Albert Pujols
G	39	39
PA	141	163
H	30	34
HR	8	6
RBI	26	25
SB	1	0
AVG	.233	.224
OBP	.281	.270
SLG	.488	.395
OPS	.769	.665
ISO	.256	.171
BB%	5.0%	5.5%
K%	19.1%	15.3%
wOBA	.323	.283
wRC+	100	72
WAR	0.2	-0.4

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	Ryan Braun	Albert Pujols
G	27	60
PA	114	238
H	35	63
HR	2	11
RBI	16	33
BB	6	35
SO	28	32
SB	3	1
AVG	.330	.317
OBP	.368	.424
SLG	.491	.548
OPS	.859	.972

Ryan Braun’s full profile →Albert Pujols’s full profile →

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Ryan Braun vs

Albert Pujols vs

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.