Head to head · 2026 Wild Card Series batting

Yordan Alvarez vs Munetaka Murakami

In 2026 Yordan Alvarez has been worth 4.4 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.

Opponents in the 2026 Wild Card Series, where the Chicago White Sox won 2-0 over the Houston Astros.

Yordan Alvarez HOU

Munetaka Murakami CWS

Postseason

Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.

2026 Wild Card Series.
Statistic	Yordan Alvarez	Munetaka Murakami
G	2	2
PA	8	10
H	1	1
HR	0	0
RBI	0	1
BB	0	1
SO	2	5
SB	0	0
AVG	.125	.125
OBP	.125	.200
SLG	.125	.125
OPS	.250	.325

Every published postseason, batting, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Yordan Alvarez	Munetaka Murakami
G	62	7
PA	260	31
H	64	5
HR	12	1
RBI	41	5
BB	31	3
SO	71	16
SB	0	1
AVG	.288	.185
OBP	.385	.258
SLG	.536	.296
OPS	.921	.554

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Yordan Alvarez	Munetaka Murakami
G	158	127
PA	692	553
H	179	94
HR	42	35
RBI	106	77
SB	1	1
AVG	.316	.207
OBP	.432	.347
SLG	.601	.478
OPS	1.033	.825
ISO	.286	.271
BB%	15.8%	16.6%
K%	17.3%	35.4%
wOBA	.430	.359
wRC+	182	130
WAR	7.5	3.1

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	Yordan Alvarez	Munetaka Murakami
G	835	127
PA	3,559	553
H	907	94
2B	190	16
3B	7	1
HR	212	35
RBI	599	77
BB	455	92
SO	686	196
SB	10	1
AVG	.300	.207
SLG	.578	.478
WAR	31.9	3.1

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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.