Head to head · Career pitching
Gerrit Cole vs David Price
In 2022 Gerrit Cole has been worth 3.3 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 | David Price |
|---|---|---|
| G | 339 | 400 |
| GS | 339 | 322 |
| IP | 2,081.0 | 2,143.2 |
| W | 163 | 157 |
| L | 89 | 82 |
| SV | 0 | 3 |
| SO | 2,382 | 2,076 |
| BB | 525 | 562 |
| ERA | 3.20 | 3.32 |
| WHIP | 1.09 | 1.16 |
| K/9 | 10.3 | 8.7 |
| BB/9 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| HR/9 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| WAR | 48.1 | 40.8 |
2022 season
| Statistic | Gerrit Cole | David Price |
|---|---|---|
| G | 33 | 40 |
| GS | 33 | 0 |
| IP | 200.2 | 40.1 |
| W | 13 | 2 |
| SO | 257 | 37 |
| ERA | 3.50 | 2.45 |
| FIP | 3.47 | 3.88 |
| WHIP | 1.02 | 1.17 |
| K/9 | 11.5 | 8.3 |
| BB/9 | 2.2 | 2.0 |
| FIP− | 87 | 98 |
| WAR | 3.6 | 0.3 |
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 | David Price |
|---|---|---|
| G | 23 | 23 |
| GS | 23 | 14 |
| IP | 138.1 | 99.1 |
| W | 11 | 5 |
| SV | 0 | 1 |
| SO | 161 | 91 |
| BB | 37 | 28 |
| ERA | 2.73 | 4.62 |
| WHIP | 1.03 | 1.20 |
| K/9 | 10.5 | 8.2 |
| 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.