Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Andrew McCutchen

In 2020 Andrew McCutchen has been worth 0.4 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

Andrew McCutchen PHI

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	Andrew McCutchen
G	1,765	2,299
PA	7,339	9,790
H	1,963	2,280
2B	408	453
3B	49	50
HR	352	333
RBI	1,154	1,157
BB	586	1,192
SO	1,363	1,915
SB	216	220
AVG	.296	.271
SLG	.532	.455
WAR	52.9	61.1

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Andrew McCutchen
G	39	57
PA	141	241
H	30	55
HR	8	10
RBI	26	34
SB	1	4
AVG	.233	.253
OBP	.281	.324
SLG	.488	.433
OPS	.769	.757
ISO	.256	.180
BB%	5.0%	9.1%
K%	19.1%	19.9%
wOBA	.323	.329
wRC+	100	105
WAR	0.2	0.6

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	Andrew McCutchen
G	27	13
PA	114	53
H	35	11
HR	2	0
RBI	16	1
BB	6	7
SO	28	7
SB	3	0
AVG	.330	.239
OBP	.368	.340
SLG	.491	.261
OPS	.859	.600

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Ryan Braun vs

Andrew McCutchen 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.