Head to head · Career pitching
Chris Sale vs Stephen Strasburg
In 2022 Chris Sale has been worth 0.2 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.
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.
| Statistic | Chris Sale | Stephen Strasburg |
|---|---|---|
| G | 420 | 247 |
| GS | 339 | 247 |
| IP | 2,246.2 | 1,470.0 |
| W | 159 | 113 |
| L | 97 | 62 |
| SV | 12 | 0 |
| SO | 2,779 | 1,723 |
| BB | 518 | 394 |
| ERA | 2.95 | 3.24 |
| WHIP | 1.04 | 1.10 |
| K/9 | 11.1 | 10.5 |
| BB/9 | 2.1 | 2.4 |
| HR/9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| WAR | 60.0 | 36.3 |
2022 season
| Statistic | Chris Sale | Stephen Strasburg |
|---|---|---|
| G | 2 | 1 |
| GS | 2 | 1 |
| IP | 5.2 | 4.2 |
| W | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 5 | 5 |
| ERA | 3.18 | 13.50 |
| FIP | 2.41 | 5.68 |
| WHIP | 1.06 | 2.14 |
| K/9 | 7.9 | 9.6 |
| BB/9 | 1.6 | 3.9 |
| FIP− | 61 | 143 |
| WAR | 0.2 | -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.
| Statistic | Chris Sale | Stephen Strasburg |
|---|---|---|
| G | 13 | 9 |
| GS | 9 | 8 |
| IP | 46.2 | 55.1 |
| W | 1 | 6 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 66 | 71 |
| BB | 14 | 8 |
| ERA | 5.79 | 1.46 |
| WHIP | 1.33 | 0.94 |
| K/9 | 12.7 | 11.5 |
| BB/9 | 2.7 | 1.3 |
More head to heads
The same seasons, measured against somebody else.
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.