Head to head · Career batting

Jose Altuve vs Adrian Beltré

In 2018 Jose Altuve has been worth 3.7 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, 2005–2025, by dbWAR.

Jose Altuve HOU

Adrian Beltré TEX

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	Jose Altuve	Adrian Beltré
G	2,109	1,965
PA	9,269	8,312
H	2,519	2,217
2B	479	460
3B	34	20
HR	271	330
RBI	939	1,197
BB	696	562
SO	1,253	1,142
SB	330	59
AVG	.300	.291
SLG	.462	.487
WAR	64.2	48.5

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Jose Altuve	Adrian Beltré
G	137	119
PA	599	481
H	169	118
HR	13	15
RBI	61	65
SB	17	1
AVG	.316	.273
OBP	.386	.328
SLG	.451	.434
OPS	.837	.763
ISO	.135	.162
BB%	9.2%	7.1%
K%	13.2%	20.0%
wOBA	.367	.330
wRC+	134	98
WAR	4.7	1.0

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	Jose Altuve	Adrian Beltré
G	107	24
PA	492	102
H	120	25
HR	28	5
RBI	57	10
BB	43	4
SO	76	22
SB	9	0
AVG	.270	.260
OBP	.335	.304
SLG	.507	.479
OPS	.842	.783

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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.