Head to head · Career batting

Xander Bogaerts vs Mike Trout

In 2026 Mike Trout has been worth 1.5 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 SD

Mike Trout LAA

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	Mike Trout
G	1,810	1,788
PA	7,675	7,837
H	1,942	1,878
2B	402	351
3B	19	55
HR	210	426
RBI	895	1,072
BB	670	1,174
SO	1,379	1,828
SB	148	225
AVG	.283	.290
SLG	.438	.558
WAR	50.1	89.9

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Xander Bogaerts	Mike Trout
G	153	142
PA	606	634
H	120	124
HR	13	22
RBI	57	54
SB	22	11
AVG	.231	.242
OBP	.332	.382
SLG	.344	.421
OPS	.676	.803
ISO	.113	.179
BB%	12.7%	16.9%
K%	18.0%	26.0%
wOBA	.309	.358
wRC+	97	134
WAR	2.9	4.4

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	Mike Trout
G	60	3
PA	242	15
H	51	1
HR	7	1
RBI	23	1
BB	23	3
SO	49	2
SB	1	0
AVG	.235	.083
OBP	.306	.267
SLG	.387	.333
OPS	.693	.600

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Xander Bogaerts vs

Mike Trout vs

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.