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2026

Head to head · 2025 pitching

Lucas Giolito vs Ben Lively

In 2025 Lucas Giolito has been worth 1.4 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 season

2025 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticLucas GiolitoBen Lively
G269
GS269
IP145.044.2
W102
SO12129
ERA3.413.22
FIP4.174.59
WHIP1.291.19
K/97.55.8
BB/93.53.0
FIP−100110
WAR1.70.3

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, pitching, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
StatisticLucas GiolitoBen Lively
G21
GS20
IP11.11.1
W10
SV00
SO122
BB61
ERA3.970.00
WHIP0.971.50
K/99.513.5
BB/94.86.8

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 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 season table.
StatisticLucas GiolitoBen Lively
G21383
GS20970
IP1,188.1404.1
W7323
L6929
SV00
SO1,216306
BB464128
ERA4.324.38
WHIP1.271.32
K/99.26.8
BB/93.52.8
HR/91.41.5
WAR11.61.5

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.