Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Matt Holliday

In 2018 Ryan Braun has been worth 1.1 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.

Two of the 25 most valuable batting careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

Ryan Braun MIL

Matt Holliday COL

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	Matt Holliday
G	1,765	1,780
PA	7,339	7,542
H	1,963	1,980
2B	408	437
3B	49	29
HR	352	302
RBI	1,154	1,163
BB	586	771
SO	1,363	1,276
SB	216	105
AVG	.296	.300
SLG	.532	.512
WAR	52.9	51.1

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Matt Holliday
G	125	25
PA	447	65
H	103	15
HR	20	2
RBI	64	3
SB	11	0
AVG	.254	.283
OBP	.313	.415
SLG	.469	.434
OPS	.782	.849
ISO	.215	.151
BB%	7.6%	18.5%
K%	19.0%	27.7%
wOBA	.334	.381
wRC+	110	133
WAR	1.5	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	Matt Holliday
G	27	77
PA	114	314
H	35	71
HR	2	13
RBI	16	37
BB	6	18
SO	28	62
SB	3	1
AVG	.330	.245
OBP	.368	.303
SLG	.491	.421
OPS	.859	.723

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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.