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2026

Head to head · 2026 batting

Josh Naylor vs Chandler Simpson

In 2026 Chandler Simpson has been worth 1.2 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.

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
StatisticJosh NaylorChandler Simpson
G152149
PA650612
H156176
HR100
RBI5738
SB3046
AVG.261.308
OBP.317.335
SLG.350.357
OPS.667.692
ISO.089.049
BB%6.9%4.2%
K%12.2%7.8%
wOBA.299.308
wRC+9093
WAR0.21.4

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.
StatisticJosh NaylorChandler Simpson
G3113
PA13248
H3614
HR50
RBI167
BB61
SO223
SB25
AVG.288.311
OBP.318.319
SLG.472.422
OPS.790.741

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.
StatisticJosh NaylorChandler Simpson
G895257
PA3,5131,053
H853298
2B16931
3B29
HR1140
RBI49264
BB26646
SO53691
SB8590
AVG.268.303
SLG.429.352
WAR9.82.7

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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.