Head to head · 2026 batting

Elly De La Cruz vs Shohei Ohtani

In 2026 Elly De La Cruz has been worth 2.9 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.

Their 2026 seasons were among each other's nearest on rate statistics.
Both among the 25 most valuable hitters of 2025 by dbWAR.

Elly De La Cruz CIN

Shohei Ohtani LAD

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Elly De La Cruz	Shohei Ohtani
G	143	135
PA	636	618
H	158	144
HR	30	30
RBI	79	81
SB	30	11
AVG	.283	.275
OBP	.365	.377
SLG	.515	.512
OPS	.880	.889
ISO	.233	.237
BB%	11.3%	13.1%
K%	27.5%	24.6%
wOBA	.382	.379
wRC+	148	143
WAR	6.7	3.8

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	Elly De La Cruz	Shohei Ohtani
G	2	41
PA	8	192
H	0	37
HR	0	12
RBI	2	27
BB	2	33
SO	4	55
SB	0	2
AVG	.000	.239
OBP	.250	.379
SLG	.000	.510
OPS	.250	.889

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	Elly De La Cruz	Shohei Ohtani
G	563	1,153
PA	2,458	4,947
H	575	1,194
2B	112	218
3B	29	49
HR	90	310
RBI	285	750
BB	243	622
SO	718	1,256
SB	169	176
AVG	.262	.281
SLG	.463	.574
WAR	19.5	41.9

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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.