Head to head · Career pitching

Madison Bumgarner vs Chris Sale

In 2023 Chris Sale has been worth 2.5 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.

Two of the 25 most valuable pitching careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

Madison Bumgarner AZ

Chris Sale BOS

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 pitching totals. ERA, WHIP and the per-nine rates are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; FIP needs each season’s own constant and is left to the season table.
Statistic	Madison Bumgarner	Chris Sale
G	358	420
GS	355	339
IP	2,209.1	2,246.2
W	134	159
L	124	97
SV	0	12
SO	2,070	2,779
BB	544	518
ERA	3.47	2.95
WHIP	1.15	1.04
K/9	8.4	11.1
BB/9	2.2	2.1
HR/9	1.1	0.9
WAR	36.4	60.0

2023 season

2023 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
Statistic	Madison Bumgarner	Chris Sale
G	4	20
GS	4	20
IP	16.2	102.2
W	0	6
SO	10	125
ERA	10.26	4.30
FIP	8.06	3.80
WHIP	2.40	1.13
K/9	5.4	11.0
BB/9	8.1	2.5
FIP−	186	88
WAR	-0.5	2.0

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, pitching, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Madison Bumgarner	Chris Sale
G	16	13
GS	14	9
IP	102.1	46.2
W	8	1
SV	1	0
SO	87	66
BB	18	14
ERA	2.11	5.79
WHIP	0.90	1.33
K/9	7.7	12.7
BB/9	1.6	2.7

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How these are computed

FIP uses the constant solved from this season’s own runs, and FIP− is park-adjusted against the 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.