Head to head · 2026 batting

Willson Contreras vs Brendan Donovan

In 2026 Willson Contreras has been worth 3.2 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.

Teammates: two of the 3 most valuable hitters on the 2025 St. Louis Cardinals.

Willson Contreras BOS

Brendan Donovan SEA

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Willson Contreras	Brendan Donovan
G	129	39
PA	535	159
H	123	38
HR	27	3
RBI	81	15
SB	3	1
AVG	.275	.277
OBP	.386	.371
SLG	.516	.409
OPS	.901	.780
ISO	.241	.131
BB%	11.0%	9.4%
K%	25.2%	14.5%
wOBA	.394	.352
wRC+	150	128
WAR	4.2	1.0

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	Willson Contreras	Brendan Donovan
G	30	2
PA	102	7
H	20	0
HR	4	0
RBI	8	0
BB	15	0
SO	24	2
SB	0	0
AVG	.238	.000
OBP	.373	.000
SLG	.417	.000
OPS	.789	.000

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	Willson Contreras	Brendan Donovan
G	1,196	527
PA	4,810	2,165
H	1,077	536
2B	229	104
3B	14	6
HR	199	43
RBI	629	217
BB	478	197
SO	1,170	294
SB	40	16
AVG	.260	.282
SLG	.466	.411
WAR	32.4	12.4

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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.