Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Robinson Canó

In 2020 Robinson Canó has been worth 1.2 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

Robinson Canó NYM

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	Robinson Canó
G	1,765	2,263
PA	7,339	9,550
H	1,963	2,639
2B	408	572
3B	49	33
HR	352	335
RBI	1,154	1,306
BB	586	620
SO	1,363	1,214
SB	216	51
AVG	.296	.301
SLG	.532	.488
WAR	52.9	63.1

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Robinson Canó
G	39	49
PA	141	182
H	30	54
HR	8	10
RBI	26	30
SB	1	0
AVG	.233	.316
OBP	.281	.352
SLG	.488	.544
OPS	.769	.896
ISO	.256	.228
BB%	5.0%	4.9%
K%	19.1%	13.2%
wOBA	.323	.377
wRC+	100	138
WAR	0.2	1.4

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	Robinson Canó
G	27	51
PA	114	217
H	35	45
HR	2	8
RBI	16	33
BB	6	11
SO	28	28
SB	3	0
AVG	.330	.222
OBP	.368	.267
SLG	.491	.419
OPS	.859	.686

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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.