Head to head · 2026 Wild Card Series batting

Willson Contreras vs Ben Rice

In 2026 Ben Rice has been worth 0.2 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.

Opponents in the 2026 Wild Card Series, where the New York Yankees won 2-0 over the Boston Red Sox.

Willson Contreras BOS

Ben Rice NYY

Postseason

Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.

2026 Wild Card Series.
Statistic	Willson Contreras	Ben Rice
G	2	2
PA	8	10
H	2	5
HR	1	2
RBI	1	6
BB	2	1
SO	3	2
SB	0	0
AVG	.333	.556
OBP	.500	.600
SLG	.833	1.333
OPS	1.333	1.933

Every published postseason, batting, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Willson Contreras	Ben Rice
G	30	11
PA	102	43
H	20	12
HR	4	5
RBI	8	13
BB	15	5
SO	24	14
SB	0	0
AVG	.238	.324
OBP	.373	.395
SLG	.417	.784
OPS	.789	1.179

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Willson Contreras	Ben Rice
G	129	154
PA	535	667
H	123	151
HR	27	41
RBI	81	97
SB	3	3
AVG	.275	.264
OBP	.386	.363
SLG	.516	.534
OPS	.901	.897
ISO	.241	.271
BB%	11.0%	12.7%
K%	25.2%	24.3%
wOBA	.394	.386
wRC+	150	142
WAR	4.2	4.4

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	Ben Rice
G	1,196	337
PA	4,810	1,375
H	1,077	296
2B	229	58
3B	14	8
HR	199	74
RBI	629	185
BB	478	155
SO	1,170	310
SB	40	6
AVG	.260	.248
SLG	.466	.497
WAR	32.4	6.8

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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.