Head to head · Career pitching

Kevin Gausman vs Jon Lester

In 2021 Kevin Gausman has been worth 5.3 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 pitching careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

Kevin Gausman SF

Jon Lester WSH

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 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 season table.
Statistic	Kevin Gausman	Jon Lester
G	393	452
GS	354	451
IP	2,088.2	2,740.0
W	121	200
L	125	117
SV	0	0
SO	2,138	2,488
BB	582	892
ERA	3.87	3.66
WHIP	1.24	1.28
K/9	9.2	8.2
BB/9	2.5	2.9
HR/9	1.1	1.0
WAR	37.9	45.0

2021 season

2021 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
Statistic	Kevin Gausman	Jon Lester
G	33	28
GS	33	28
IP	192.0	141.1
W	14	7
SO	227	91
ERA	2.81	4.71
FIP	3.00	5.41
WHIP	1.04	1.51
K/9	10.6	5.8
BB/9	2.3	3.5
FIP−	70	127
WAR	5.1	-0.2

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, pitching, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Kevin Gausman	Jon Lester
G	15	26
GS	9	22
IP	59.2	154.0
W	2	9
SV	0	0
SO	57	133
BB	22	40
ERA	4.07	2.51
WHIP	1.04	1.02
K/9	8.6	7.8
BB/9	3.3	2.3

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More head to heads

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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.