Head to head · Career batting

Xander Bogaerts vs Chase Utley

In 2018 Xander Bogaerts has been worth 5.2 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.

Two of the 25 most valuable batting careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

Xander Bogaerts BOS

Chase Utley LAD

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	Xander Bogaerts	Chase Utley
G	1,810	1,793
PA	7,675	7,424
H	1,942	1,782
2B	402	390
3B	19	55
HR	210	244
RBI	895	947
BB	670	698
SO	1,379	1,131
SB	148	148
AVG	.283	.276
SLG	.438	.467
WAR	50.1	54.0

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Xander Bogaerts	Chase Utley
G	135	83
PA	580	187
H	148	35
HR	23	1
RBI	103	14
SB	8	3
AVG	.288	.213
OBP	.360	.305
SLG	.522	.305
OPS	.883	.610
ISO	.234	.091
BB%	9.5%	9.1%
K%	17.6%	18.2%
wOBA	.378	.275
wRC+	138	73
WAR	5.2	0.0

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	Xander Bogaerts	Chase Utley
G	60	67
PA	242	258
H	51	47
HR	7	10
RBI	23	27
BB	23	39
SO	49	52
SB	1	11
AVG	.235	.224
OBP	.306	.364
SLG	.387	.410
OPS	.693	.774

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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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.