Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Mike Trout

In 2020 Mike Trout has been worth 2.5 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

Mike Trout LAA

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	Mike Trout
G	1,765	1,788
PA	7,339	7,837
H	1,963	1,878
2B	408	351
3B	49	55
HR	352	426
RBI	1,154	1,072
BB	586	1,174
SO	1,363	1,828
SB	216	225
AVG	.296	.290
SLG	.532	.558
WAR	52.9	89.9

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Mike Trout
G	39	53
PA	141	241
H	30	56
HR	8	17
RBI	26	46
SB	1	1
AVG	.233	.281
OBP	.281	.390
SLG	.488	.603
OPS	.769	.993
ISO	.256	.322
BB%	5.0%	14.5%
K%	19.1%	23.2%
wOBA	.323	.409
wRC+	100	155
WAR	0.2	2.7

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	Mike Trout
G	27	3
PA	114	15
H	35	1
HR	2	1
RBI	16	1
BB	6	3
SO	28	2
SB	3	0
AVG	.330	.083
OBP	.368	.267
SLG	.491	.333
OPS	.859	.600

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Ryan Braun vs

Mike Trout 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.