Head to head · 2026 batting

Starling Marte vs Dominic Smith

In 2026 Dominic Smith has been worth 0.5 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.

Their 2025 seasons were among each other's nearest on rate statistics.

Starling Marte KC

Dominic Smith ATL

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Starling Marte	Dominic Smith
G	56	107
PA	168	300
H	37	68
HR	2	9
RBI	14	46
SB	2	0
AVG	.242	.253
OBP	.298	.311
SLG	.314	.383
OPS	.611	.694
ISO	.072	.130
BB%	5.4%	7.7%
K%	24.4%	16.0%
wOBA	.278	.306
wRC+	68	90
WAR	-0.5	0.0

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	Starling Marte	Dominic Smith
G	25	3
PA	107	5
H	21	2
HR	1	0
RBI	10	0
BB	5	0
SO	19	3
SB	4	0
AVG	.221	.400
OBP	.290	.400
SLG	.316	.400
OPS	.606	.800

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	Starling Marte	Dominic Smith
G	1,567	837
PA	6,475	2,791
H	1,676	630
2B	296	139
3B	55	5
HR	165	78
RBI	681	338
BB	351	208
SO	1,308	591
SB	363	7
AVG	.284	.250
SLG	.436	.402
WAR	32.9	3.6

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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.