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2026

Head to head · 2026 pitching

Caleb Ferguson vs Richard Lovelady

In 2026 Caleb Ferguson 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.

2026 season

2026 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticCaleb FergusonRichard Lovelady
G3538
GS16
IP33.035.0
W13
SO3131
ERA5.184.11
FIP4.925.59
WHIP1.701.86
K/98.58.0
BB/95.26.2
FIP−118134
WAR-0.1-0.3

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.
StatisticCaleb FergusonRichard Lovelady
G12—
GS0—
IP8.1—
W0—
SV0—
SO7—
BB5—
ERA5.40—
WHIP1.32—
K/97.6—
BB/95.4—

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.
StatisticCaleb FergusonRichard Lovelady
G368156
GS156
IP360.0146.0
W258
L1717
SV77
SO396133
BB14866
ERA3.805.05
WHIP1.331.47
K/99.98.2
BB/93.74.1
HR/90.91.2
WAR4.00.0

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.