Head to head · Career pitching
Gerrit Cole vs Dan Haren
In 2015 Gerrit Cole has been worth 4.9 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 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 | Gerrit Cole | Dan Haren |
|---|---|---|
| G | 339 | 363 |
| GS | 339 | 361 |
| IP | 2,081.0 | 2,301.0 |
| W | 163 | 147 |
| L | 89 | 121 |
| SV | 0 | 1 |
| SO | 2,382 | 1,938 |
| BB | 525 | 461 |
| ERA | 3.20 | 3.70 |
| WHIP | 1.09 | 1.17 |
| K/9 | 10.3 | 7.6 |
| BB/9 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
| HR/9 | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| WAR | 48.1 | 36.8 |
2015 season
| Statistic | Gerrit Cole | Dan Haren |
|---|---|---|
| G | 32 | 32 |
| GS | 32 | 32 |
| IP | 208.0 | 187.1 |
| W | 19 | 11 |
| SO | 202 | 132 |
| ERA | 2.60 | 3.60 |
| FIP | 2.66 | 4.61 |
| WHIP | 1.09 | 1.13 |
| K/9 | 8.7 | 6.3 |
| BB/9 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| FIP− | 67 | 116 |
| WAR | 5.6 | 0.7 |
Postseason
Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.
| Statistic | Gerrit Cole | Dan Haren |
|---|---|---|
| G | 23 | 2 |
| GS | 23 | 2 |
| IP | 138.1 | 11.0 |
| W | 11 | 1 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 161 | 9 |
| BB | 37 | 3 |
| ERA | 2.73 | 4.09 |
| WHIP | 1.03 | 1.73 |
| K/9 | 10.5 | 7.4 |
| BB/9 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
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.

