Head to head · Career batting

Mookie Betts vs Xander Bogaerts

In 2026 Mookie Betts has been worth 0.2 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.

Mookie Betts LAD

Xander Bogaerts SD

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	Mookie Betts	Xander Bogaerts
G	1,646	1,810
PA	7,464	7,675
H	1,890	1,942
2B	419	402
3B	41	19
HR	314	210
RBI	982	895
BB	783	670
SO	982	1,379
SB	198	148
AVG	.288	.283
SLG	.508	.438
WAR	58.8	50.1

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Mookie Betts	Xander Bogaerts
G	123	153
PA	528	606
H	123	120
HR	23	13
RBI	69	57
SB	2	22
AVG	.257	.231
OBP	.326	.332
SLG	.454	.344
OPS	.780	.676
ISO	.197	.113
BB%	8.9%	12.7%
K%	11.0%	18.0%
wOBA	.340	.309
wRC+	115	97
WAR	3.1	2.9

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	Mookie Betts	Xander Bogaerts
G	99	60
PA	455	242
H	98	51
HR	8	7
RBI	42	23
BB	56	23
SO	67	49
SB	16	1
AVG	.250	.235
OBP	.343	.306
SLG	.383	.387
OPS	.726	.693

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Mookie Betts vs

Xander Bogaerts 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.