Head to head · 2026 Wild Card Series batting

Yainer Diaz vs Miguel Vargas

In 2026 Miguel Vargas has been worth 3.6 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.

Yainer Diaz HOU

Miguel Vargas 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	Yainer Diaz	Miguel Vargas
G	2	2
PA	8	10
H	0	0
HR	0	0
RBI	0	0
BB	0	1
SO	4	3
SB	0	0
AVG	.000	.000
OBP	.000	.100
SLG	.000	.000
OPS	.000	.100

Every published postseason, batting, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
Statistic	Yainer Diaz	Miguel Vargas
G	11	7
PA	30	32
H	3	4
HR	0	1
RBI	1	1
BB	1	10
SO	10	6
SB	0	1
AVG	.103	.182
OBP	.133	.438
SLG	.103	.318
OPS	.237	.756

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Yainer Diaz	Miguel Vargas
G	93	159
PA	361	704
H	98	147
HR	14	33
RBI	45	93
SB	0	22
AVG	.285	.250
OBP	.313	.363
SLG	.459	.474
OPS	.772	.837
ISO	.174	.224
BB%	3.3%	14.3%
K%	15.8%	17.9%
wOBA	.335	.366
wRC+	114	135
WAR	2.0	5.6

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	Yainer Diaz	Miguel Vargas
G	492	466
PA	1,933	1,864
H	513	354
2B	93	86
3B	5	7
HR	73	62
RBI	260	209
BB	68	222
SO	335	357
SB	3	35
AVG	.280	.221
SLG	.455	.400
WAR	9.1	6.8

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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.