Head to head · Career batting

Nolan Arenado vs Albert Pujols

In 2022 Nolan Arenado has been worth 3.6 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, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

Nolan Arenado STL

Albert Pujols STL

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	Nolan Arenado	Albert Pujols
G	1,936	2,447
PA	8,113	10,313
H	2,057	2,597
2B	430	497
3B	35	7
HR	383	543
RBI	1,270	1,714
BB	629	1,069
SO	1,214	1,125
SB	35	104
AVG	.280	.287
SLG	.505	.523
WAR	50.5	55.2

2022 season

2022 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Nolan Arenado	Albert Pujols
G	148	109
PA	620	351
H	163	83
HR	30	24
RBI	103	68
SB	5	1
AVG	.293	.270
OBP	.358	.345
SLG	.533	.550
OPS	.891	.895
ISO	.241	.280
BB%	8.4%	8.0%
K%	11.6%	15.7%
wOBA	.383	.382
wRC+	154	153
WAR	5.9	2.3

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	Nolan Arenado	Albert Pujols
G	8	60
PA	35	238
H	5	63
HR	1	11
RBI	3	33
BB	0	35
SO	9	32
SB	0	1
AVG	.152	.317
OBP	.143	.424
SLG	.242	.548
OPS	.385	.972

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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.