Head to head · Career batting

Nolan Arenado vs Xander Bogaerts

In 2026 Nolan Arenado has been worth 1.0 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 AZ

Xander Bogaerts 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	Xander Bogaerts
G	1,936	1,810
PA	8,113	7,675
H	2,057	1,942
2B	430	402
3B	35	19
HR	383	210
RBI	1,270	895
BB	629	670
SO	1,214	1,379
SB	35	148
AVG	.280	.283
SLG	.505	.438
WAR	50.5	50.1

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Nolan Arenado	Xander Bogaerts
G	152	153
PA	599	606
H	136	120
HR	30	13
RBI	86	57
SB	4	22
AVG	.255	.231
OBP	.331	.332
SLG	.475	.344
OPS	.806	.676
ISO	.220	.113
BB%	8.7%	12.7%
K%	20.0%	18.0%
wOBA	.350	.309
wRC+	123	97
WAR	3.9	2.9

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	Xander Bogaerts
G	8	60
PA	35	242
H	5	51
HR	1	7
RBI	3	23
BB	0	23
SO	9	49
SB	0	1
AVG	.152	.235
OBP	.143	.306
SLG	.242	.387
OPS	.385	.693

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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.