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2026

Head to head · 2025 pitching

Andrew Heaney vs Merrill Kelly

In 2025 Merrill Kelly has been worth 3.8 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.

2025 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticAndrew HeaneyMerrill Kelly
G2732
GS2332
IP122.1184.0
W512
SO86167
ERA5.523.52
FIP5.593.76
WHIP1.381.11
K/96.38.2
BB/92.92.3
FIP−13490
WAR-0.73.1

Career

Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2015 begins at 2015, not at his real first game.

Career pitching totals. ERA, WHIP and the per-nine rates are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; FIP needs each season’s own constant and is left to the table above.
StatisticAndrew HeaneyMerrill Kelly
G223200
GS203200
IP1,107.11,165.0
W5674
L6967
SV00
SO1,1361,022
BB332369
ERA4.543.93
WHIP1.281.23
K/99.27.9
BB/92.72.9
HR/91.61.2
WAR9.515.0

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

How these are computed

FIP uses the constant solved from this season’s own runs, and FIP− is park-adjusted against the 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.