Head to head · 2026 batting

Shohei Ohtani vs Christian Yelich

In 2026 Shohei Ohtani has been worth 3.5 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.

Two of the 6 most valuable designated hitters of 2025 by dbWAR.

Shohei Ohtani LAD

Christian Yelich MIL

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Shohei Ohtani	Christian Yelich
G	135	117
PA	618	500
H	144	104
HR	30	12
RBI	81	59
SB	11	11
AVG	.275	.235
OBP	.377	.315
SLG	.512	.378
OPS	.889	.692
ISO	.237	.143
BB%	13.1%	9.8%
K%	24.6%	27.0%
wOBA	.379	.307
wRC+	143	92
WAR	3.8	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, batting, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Shohei Ohtani	Christian Yelich
G	41	39
PA	192	170
H	37	33
HR	12	2
RBI	27	8
BB	33	26
SO	55	39
SB	2	9
AVG	.239	.232
OBP	.379	.359
SLG	.510	.324
OPS	.889	.683

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	Shohei Ohtani	Christian Yelich
G	1,153	1,731
PA	4,947	7,527
H	1,194	1,845
2B	218	350
3B	49	37
HR	310	245
RBI	750	910
BB	622	883
SO	1,256	1,683
SB	176	232
AVG	.281	.282
SLG	.574	.459
WAR	41.9	48.5

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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.