Head to head · Career batting

Xander Bogaerts vs Ryan Braun

In 2020 Xander Bogaerts has been worth 2.0 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

Ryan Braun MIL

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	Ryan Braun
G	1,810	1,765
PA	7,675	7,339
H	1,942	1,963
2B	402	408
3B	19	49
HR	210	352
RBI	895	1,154
BB	670	586
SO	1,379	1,363
SB	148	216
AVG	.283	.296
SLG	.438	.532
WAR	50.1	52.9

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Xander Bogaerts	Ryan Braun
G	56	39
PA	225	141
H	61	30
HR	11	8
RBI	28	26
SB	8	1
AVG	.300	.233
OBP	.364	.281
SLG	.502	.488
OPS	.867	.769
ISO	.202	.256
BB%	9.3%	5.0%
K%	18.2%	19.1%
wOBA	.369	.323
wRC+	128	100
WAR	2.2	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, batting, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Xander Bogaerts	Ryan Braun
G	60	27
PA	242	114
H	51	35
HR	7	2
RBI	23	16
BB	23	6
SO	49	28
SB	1	3
AVG	.235	.330
OBP	.306	.368
SLG	.387	.491
OPS	.693	.859

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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.