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2026

Head to head · 2025 pitching

Max Fried vs Justin Steele

In 2025 Max Fried has been worth 4.6 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.

2025 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticMax FriedJustin Steele
G324
GS324
IP195.122.2
W193
SO18921
ERA2.864.76
FIP3.074.94
WHIP1.101.15
K/98.78.3
BB/92.32.0
FIP−74119
WAR4.70.1

Career

Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2015 begins at 2015, not at his real first game.

Career pitching totals. ERA, WHIP and the per-nine rates are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; FIP needs each season’s own constant and is left to the table above.
StatisticMax FriedJustin Steele
G219102
GS20291
IP1,185.2506.2
W9732
L4522
SV00
SO1,152517
BB328155
ERA3.003.30
WHIP1.141.21
K/98.79.2
BB/92.52.8
HR/90.70.9
WAR28.19.7

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

How these are computed

FIP uses the constant solved from this season’s own runs, and FIP− is park-adjusted against the 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.