Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Francisco Lindor

In 2020 Francisco Lindor has been worth 1.0 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

Francisco Lindor CLE

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	Francisco Lindor
G	1,765	1,639
PA	7,339	7,317
H	1,963	1,758
2B	408	351
3B	49	30
HR	352	300
RBI	1,154	905
BB	586	634
SO	1,363	1,215
SB	216	219
AVG	.296	.270
SLG	.532	.472
WAR	52.9	54.8

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Francisco Lindor
G	39	60
PA	141	266
H	30	61
HR	8	8
RBI	26	27
SB	1	6
AVG	.233	.258
OBP	.281	.335
SLG	.488	.415
OPS	.769	.750
ISO	.256	.157
BB%	5.0%	9.0%
K%	19.1%	15.4%
wOBA	.323	.326
wRC+	100	101
WAR	0.2	1.2

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	Francisco Lindor
G	27	41
PA	114	179
H	35	41
HR	2	8
RBI	16	21
BB	6	20
SO	28	42
SB	3	2
AVG	.330	.263
OBP	.368	.348
SLG	.491	.474
OPS	.859	.823

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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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.