Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Paul Goldschmidt

In 2020 Paul Goldschmidt has been worth 1.7 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

Paul Goldschmidt STL

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	Paul Goldschmidt
G	1,765	2,169
PA	7,339	9,206
H	1,963	2,277
2B	408	490
3B	49	25
HR	352	390
RBI	1,154	1,284
BB	586	1,115
SO	1,363	2,065
SB	216	175
AVG	.296	.286
SLG	.532	.501
WAR	52.9	59.7

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Paul Goldschmidt
G	39	58
PA	141	231
H	30	58
HR	8	6
RBI	26	21
SB	1	1
AVG	.233	.304
OBP	.281	.417
SLG	.488	.466
OPS	.769	.883
ISO	.256	.162
BB%	5.0%	16.0%
K%	19.1%	18.6%
wOBA	.323	.390
wRC+	100	147
WAR	0.2	1.9

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	Paul Goldschmidt
G	27	32
PA	114	121
H	35	28
HR	2	8
RBI	16	16
BB	6	11
SO	28	28
SB	3	1
AVG	.330	.262
OBP	.368	.347
SLG	.491	.533
OPS	.859	.880

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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.