Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs José Ramírez

In 2020 José Ramírez has been worth 2.9 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

José Ramírez 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	José Ramírez
G	1,765	1,715
PA	7,339	7,303
H	1,963	1,779
2B	408	425
3B	49	43
HR	352	297
RBI	1,154	1,002
BB	586	726
SO	1,363	871
SB	216	324
AVG	.296	.276
SLG	.532	.494
WAR	52.9	55.3

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	José Ramírez
G	39	58
PA	141	254
H	30	64
HR	8	17
RBI	26	46
SB	1	10
AVG	.233	.292
OBP	.281	.386
SLG	.488	.607
OPS	.769	.993
ISO	.256	.315
BB%	5.0%	12.2%
K%	19.1%	16.9%
wOBA	.323	.417
wRC+	100	162
WAR	0.2	3.1

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	José Ramírez
G	27	56
PA	114	238
H	35	52
HR	2	6
RBI	16	27
BB	6	27
SO	28	39
SB	3	5
AVG	.330	.250
OBP	.368	.336
SLG	.491	.399
OPS	.859	.735

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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.