Head to head · 2026 batting

Byron Buxton vs Shohei Ohtani

In 2026 Shohei Ohtani has been worth 0.9 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.

Both among the 25 most valuable hitters of 2025 by dbWAR.

Byron Buxton MIN

Shohei Ohtani LAD

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Byron Buxton	Shohei Ohtani
G	93	135
PA	408	618
H	94	144
HR	25	30
RBI	46	81
SB	7	11
AVG	.254	.275
OBP	.319	.377
SLG	.511	.512
OPS	.829	.889
ISO	.257	.237
BB%	7.4%	13.1%
K%	24.5%	24.6%
wOBA	.355	.379
wRC+	128	143
WAR	2.9	3.8

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	Byron Buxton	Shohei Ohtani
G	4	41
PA	7	192
H	1	37
HR	0	12
RBI	1	27
BB	0	33
SO	4	55
SB	2	2
AVG	.143	.239
OBP	.143	.379
SLG	.143	.510
OPS	.286	.889

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	Byron Buxton	Shohei Ohtani
G	959	1,153
PA	3,825	4,947
H	862	1,194
2B	196	218
3B	32	49
HR	193	310
RBI	482	750
BB	264	622
SO	1,078	1,256
SB	124	176
AVG	.248	.281
SLG	.490	.574
WAR	22.9	41.9

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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.