Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Bryce Harper

In 2020 Bryce Harper has been worth 2.1 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

Bryce Harper 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	Bryce Harper
G	1,765	1,946
PA	7,339	8,358
H	1,963	1,956
2B	408	433
3B	49	27
HR	352	392
RBI	1,154	1,138
BB	586	1,212
SO	1,363	1,802
SB	216	159
AVG	.296	.279
SLG	.532	.516
WAR	52.9	63.4

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Bryce Harper
G	39	58
PA	141	244
H	30	51
HR	8	13
RBI	26	33
SB	1	8
AVG	.233	.268
OBP	.281	.420
SLG	.488	.542
OPS	.769	.962
ISO	.256	.274
BB%	5.0%	20.1%
K%	19.1%	17.6%
wOBA	.323	.403
wRC+	100	156
WAR	0.2	2.3

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	Bryce Harper
G	27	60
PA	114	263
H	35	60
HR	2	18
RBI	16	36
BB	6	38
SO	28	61
SB	3	8
AVG	.330	.271
OBP	.368	.382
SLG	.491	.593
OPS	.859	.974

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Ryan Braun vs

Bryce Harper 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.