Head to head · Career pitching
Stephen Strasburg vs Zack Wheeler
In 2022 Zack Wheeler has been worth 3.9 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 | Stephen Strasburg | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 247 | 311 |
| GS | 247 | 311 |
| IP | 1,470.0 | 1,890.1 |
| W | 113 | 127 |
| L | 62 | 80 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 1,723 | 2,013 |
| BB | 394 | 537 |
| ERA | 3.24 | 3.26 |
| WHIP | 1.10 | 1.13 |
| K/9 | 10.5 | 9.6 |
| BB/9 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
| HR/9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| WAR | 36.3 | 41.3 |
2022 season
| Statistic | Stephen Strasburg | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 1 | 26 |
| GS | 1 | 26 |
| IP | 4.2 | 153.0 |
| W | 0 | 12 |
| SO | 5 | 163 |
| ERA | 13.50 | 2.82 |
| FIP | 5.68 | 2.89 |
| WHIP | 2.14 | 1.04 |
| K/9 | 9.6 | 9.6 |
| BB/9 | 3.9 | 2.0 |
| FIP− | 143 | 73 |
| WAR | -0.0 | 3.9 |
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 | Zack Wheeler |
|---|---|---|
| G | 9 | 13 |
| GS | 8 | 11 |
| IP | 55.1 | 74.1 |
| W | 6 | 4 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 71 | 80 |
| BB | 8 | 17 |
| ERA | 1.46 | 2.30 |
| WHIP | 0.94 | 0.77 |
| K/9 | 11.5 | 9.7 |
| BB/9 | 1.3 | 2.1 |
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.