Head to head · Career batting

Mike Trout vs Christian Yelich

In 2026 Mike Trout has been worth 4.1 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 batting careers on this site, 2005–2025, by dbWAR.

Mike Trout LAA

Christian Yelich MIL

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.

Career batting totals. AVG and SLG are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; OBP, wOBA and wRC+ need each season’s own constants and are left to the season table.
Statistic	Mike Trout	Christian Yelich
G	1,788	1,731
PA	7,837	7,527
H	1,878	1,845
2B	351	350
3B	55	37
HR	426	245
RBI	1,072	910
BB	1,174	883
SO	1,828	1,683
SB	225	232
AVG	.290	.282
SLG	.558	.459
WAR	89.9	48.5

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Mike Trout	Christian Yelich
G	142	117
PA	634	500
H	124	104
HR	22	12
RBI	54	59
SB	11	11
AVG	.242	.235
OBP	.382	.315
SLG	.421	.378
OPS	.803	.692
ISO	.179	.143
BB%	16.9%	9.8%
K%	26.0%	27.0%
wOBA	.358	.307
wRC+	134	92
WAR	4.4	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.

Every published postseason, batting, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Mike Trout	Christian Yelich
G	3	39
PA	15	170
H	1	33
HR	1	2
RBI	1	8
BB	3	26
SO	2	39
SB	0	9
AVG	.083	.232
OBP	.267	.359
SLG	.333	.324
OPS	.600	.683

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season’s own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that 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.