Head to head · Career batting

Nolan Arenado vs Miguel Cabrera

In 2023 Nolan Arenado has been worth 2.6 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

Miguel Cabrera DET

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	Miguel Cabrera
G	1,936	2,548
PA	8,113	10,765
H	2,057	2,913
2B	430	575
3B	35	13
HR	383	466
RBI	1,270	1,707
BB	629	1,165
SO	1,214	1,873
SB	35	35
AVG	.280	.309
SLG	.505	.520
WAR	50.5	71.8

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Nolan Arenado	Miguel Cabrera
G	144	98
PA	612	370
H	149	86
HR	26	4
RBI	93	34
SB	3	0
AVG	.266	.257
OBP	.315	.322
SLG	.459	.353
OPS	.774	.675
ISO	.193	.096
BB%	6.7%	8.4%
K%	16.5%	20.0%
wOBA	.328	.301
wRC+	103	84
WAR	2.0	-0.6

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	Miguel Cabrera
G	8	38
PA	35	161
H	5	39
HR	1	9
RBI	3	26
BB	0	23
SO	9	29
SB	0	3
AVG	.152	.285
OBP	.143	.391
SLG	.242	.540
OPS	.385	.931

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Nolan Arenado vs

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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.