Head to head · Career pitching
Stephen Strasburg vs Justin Verlander
In 2022 Justin Verlander has been worth 5.2 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 | Stephen Strasburg | Justin Verlander |
|---|---|---|
| G | 247 | 557 |
| GS | 247 | 557 |
| IP | 1,470.0 | 3,576.2 |
| W | 113 | 266 |
| L | 62 | 159 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 1,723 | 3,560 |
| BB | 394 | 1,007 |
| ERA | 3.24 | 3.33 |
| WHIP | 1.10 | 1.14 |
| K/9 | 10.5 | 9.0 |
| BB/9 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
| HR/9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| WAR | 36.3 | 72.9 |
2022 season
| Statistic | Stephen Strasburg | Justin Verlander |
|---|---|---|
| G | 1 | 28 |
| GS | 1 | 28 |
| IP | 4.2 | 175.0 |
| W | 0 | 18 |
| SO | 5 | 185 |
| ERA | 13.50 | 1.75 |
| FIP | 5.68 | 2.49 |
| WHIP | 2.14 | 0.83 |
| K/9 | 9.6 | 9.5 |
| BB/9 | 3.9 | 1.5 |
| FIP− | 143 | 63 |
| WAR | -0.0 | 5.2 |
Postseason
Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.
| Statistic | Stephen Strasburg | Justin Verlander |
|---|---|---|
| G | 9 | 38 |
| GS | 8 | 37 |
| IP | 55.1 | 226.0 |
| W | 6 | 17 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 71 | 244 |
| BB | 8 | 74 |
| ERA | 1.46 | 3.58 |
| WHIP | 0.94 | 1.12 |
| K/9 | 11.5 | 9.7 |
| BB/9 | 1.3 | 2.9 |
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.