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Head to head · 2026 batting

Elly De La Cruz vs Ben Rice

In 2026 Elly De La Cruz has been worth 2.3 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.

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
StatisticElly De La CruzBen Rice
G143154
PA636667
H158151
HR3041
RBI7997
SB303
AVG.283.264
OBP.365.363
SLG.515.534
OPS.880.897
ISO.233.271
BB%11.3%12.7%
K%27.5%24.3%
wOBA.382.386
wRC+148142
WAR6.74.4

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.
StatisticElly De La CruzBen Rice
G211
PA843
H012
HR05
RBI213
BB25
SO414
SB00
AVG.000.324
OBP.250.395
SLG.000.784
OPS.2501.179

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.
StatisticElly De La CruzBen Rice
G563337
PA2,4581,375
H575296
2B11258
3B298
HR9074
RBI285185
BB243155
SO718310
SB1696
AVG.262.248
SLG.463.497
WAR19.56.8

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.