Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Freddie Freeman

In 2020 Freddie Freeman has been worth 3.4 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

Freddie Freeman ATL

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	Freddie Freeman
G	1,765	2,323
PA	7,339	10,020
H	1,963	2,598
2B	408	579
3B	49	34
HR	352	383
RBI	1,154	1,392
BB	586	1,136
SO	1,363	1,879
SB	216	111
AVG	.296	.299
SLG	.532	.505
WAR	52.9	70.6

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Freddie Freeman
G	39	60
PA	141	262
H	30	73
HR	8	13
RBI	26	53
SB	1	2
AVG	.233	.341
OBP	.281	.462
SLG	.488	.640
OPS	.769	1.102
ISO	.256	.299
BB%	5.0%	17.2%
K%	19.1%	14.1%
wOBA	.323	.459
wRC+	100	192
WAR	0.2	3.6

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	Freddie Freeman
G	27	87
PA	114	381
H	35	84
HR	2	18
RBI	16	42
BB	6	45
SO	28	71
SB	3	4
AVG	.330	.256
OBP	.368	.354
SLG	.491	.479
OPS	.859	.833

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Ryan Braun vs

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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.