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2026

Head to head · 2025 pitching

Darren McCaughan vs Louis Varland

In 2025 Louis Varland 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.

2025 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticDarren McCaughanLouis Varland
G374
GS01
IP5.172.2
W04
SO675
ERA1.692.97
FIP1.453.14
WHIP1.131.20
K/910.19.3
BB/91.72.7
FIP−3575
WAR0.21.4

Career

Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2015 begins at 2015, 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 table above.
StatisticDarren McCaughanLouis Varland
G20181
GS623
IP61.1292.1
W014
L020
SV234
SO46311
BB2383
ERA6.023.79
WHIP1.571.24
K/96.89.6
BB/93.42.6
HR/91.91.2
WAR-0.73.9

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.