Head to head · Career batting

Nolan Arenado vs Robinson Canó

In 2022 Nolan Arenado has been worth 6.8 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

Robinson Canó SD

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	Robinson Canó
G	1,936	2,263
PA	8,113	9,550
H	2,057	2,639
2B	430	572
3B	35	33
HR	383	335
RBI	1,270	1,306
BB	629	620
SO	1,214	1,214
SB	35	51
AVG	.280	.301
SLG	.505	.488
WAR	50.5	63.1

2022 season

2022 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Nolan Arenado	Robinson Canó
G	148	32
PA	620	104
H	163	15
HR	30	1
RBI	103	4
SB	5	0
AVG	.293	.150
OBP	.358	.183
SLG	.533	.190
OPS	.891	.373
ISO	.241	.040
BB%	8.4%	3.8%
K%	11.6%	24.0%
wOBA	.383	.170
wRC+	154	-0
WAR	5.9	-0.9

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	Robinson Canó
G	8	51
PA	35	217
H	5	45
HR	1	8
RBI	3	33
BB	0	11
SO	9	28
SB	0	0
AVG	.152	.222
OBP	.143	.267
SLG	.242	.419
OPS	.385	.686

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Nolan Arenado vs

Robinson Canó vs

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.