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2026

Head to head · 2025 batting

Heston Kjerstad vs Kevin Newman

In 2025 Kevin Newman 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.

2025 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
StatisticHeston KjerstadKevin Newman
G5246
PA167116
H3023
HR42
RBI1911
SB11
AVG.192.202
OBP.240.209
SLG.327.272
OPS.566.481
ISO.135.070
BB%3.6%0.9%
K%26.9%19.8%
wOBA.248.209
wRC+5226
WAR-0.8-0.6

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 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 table above.
StatisticHeston KjerstadKevin Newman
G115638
PA3332,343
H66562
2B9102
3B212
HR1028
RBI38210
BB18120
SO97300
SB247
AVG.217.259
SLG.359.355
WAR-0.54.0

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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.