Head to head · 2026 batting

Aaron Judge vs Nick Kurtz

In 2026 Nick Kurtz has been worth 1.4 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.

Both near the front of the 2025 AL MVP race: among the league's 8 most valuable hitters by dbWAR.
Their 2025 seasons were among each other's nearest on rate statistics.

Aaron Judge NYY

Nick Kurtz ATH

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Aaron Judge	Nick Kurtz
G	66	99
PA	285	434
H	57	90
HR	18	21
RBI	41	69
SB	5	7
AVG	.241	.256
OBP	.360	.396
SLG	.511	.483
OPS	.871	.879
ISO	.270	.227
BB%	15.1%	18.2%
K%	29.8%	32.5%
wOBA	.374	.384
wRC+	134	130
WAR	1.6	3.0

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	Aaron Judge	Nick Kurtz
G	65	—
PA	293	—
H	58	—
HR	17	—
RBI	41	—
BB	40	—
SO	91	—
SB	5	—
AVG	.236	—
OBP	.346	—
SLG	.476	—
OPS	.822	—

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	Aaron Judge	Nick Kurtz
G	1,209	216
PA	5,287	923
H	1,262	212
2B	213	41
3B	7	3
HR	386	57
RBI	871	155
BB	860	142
SO	1,454	292
SB	70	9
AVG	.291	.275
SLG	.610	.557
WAR	58.6	8.2

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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.