Individual pitcher-batter matchups make for some of MLB’s most frequently misused or overstated stats: You may hear a broadcaster, writer, fan or even a manager cite some hitter’s .444 career batting average against an opposing pitcher, but leave out the important fact that the .444 average in question simply means the hitter is 4-for-9 with four softly hit singles against that particular question.

Because individual matchup stats almost always come across minuscule samples, it is almost impossible to say whether a pitcher actually has some slugger’s number or if their mutual history merely represents the whims of the randomness that dominates baseball. But ask any ballplayer anywhere and he’ll be able to name a few opponents he always just felt comfortable against, either because his particular pitching style played well against the hitter’s particular strengths or, maybe, because a hitter happened to see the ball well coming out of a certain pitcher’s hand.

Back in the mid-to-late 1980s, Mets infielder Howard Johnson appeared more or less guaranteed a hard-hit ball whenever he faced Cardinals reliever Todd Worrell. And that made sense: Worrell thrived on velocity, and HoJo had the batspeed to turn on a Learjet if someone left it out over the plate. And in that a handful of plate appearances can be used to show anything at all, the numbers seem to back it up. In Johnson’s first 15 times facing Worrell, he went 5-for-9 with four homers and six walks — four of them intentional.

So with that type of dominance in mind, I searched through baseball-reference.com’s awesome play index in an attempt to identify the most lopsided matchups in contemporary baseball, paying particular attention to the sport’s three true outcomes — home runs, strikeouts and walks — to try to filter out some of the whims inherent on all balls in play. That weeds out returns like Torii Hunter’s against Felix Hernandez, as though Hunter managed a .304 career batting average against King Felix, he never homered in 85 plate appearances against the Mariners’ ace and struck out 22 times. It also eliminates one of Hernandez’s most commonly referenced nemeses, Mike Trout, because though Trout has four homers off Hernandez in 72 plate appearances, he has also fanned 21 times.

I limited the following examples to matchups with at least 20 plate appearances’ worth of evidence, even if 20 plate appearances hardly makes for an adequate sample. That standard, sadly, forces many of the game’s most exciting young stars off this list. But you have to have rules.

Here are 13 examples of MLB players who have absolutely owned opponents, in no particular order:

1. Miguel Cabrera owns Corey Kluber

This list will mostly operate in great players, and it shouldn’t be terribly surprising when a great player has great numbers against a particular opponent. But Corey Kluber, the 2014 AL Cy Young Award winner and one of baseball’s best right-handers, is not just any old pitcher. And Miggy, to date, has made Kluber look like a complete scrub. Cabrera’s 1.652 lifetime OPS against Kluber is the best of any hitter with more than eight plate appearances against the Indians’ ace. In 37 career matchups, Cabrera is 20-for-35 with five homers, two walks and six strikeouts. Cabrera has been better against Kluber than he has been against any other pitcher since Steve Trachsel, and Trachsel was no Corey Kluber. And since both players are signed to deals that should keep them on AL Central rivals into the next decade, Cabrera should get plenty more chances to torture Kluber.

2. Matt Harvey owns Bryce Harper

If this is baseball’s Batman vs. Superman matchup, Harvey’s throwing Kryptonite. Harper, now perhaps the best hitter in the game, is somehow 0-for-20 with seven strikeouts and three walks in 23 lifetime plate appearances against his divisional rival, good for a .130 OPS. No one who has faced Harper more than 10 times has better held him in check. Again, assuming both players stay healthy, this matchup is nowhere near over.

3. Joey Votto owns Zack Greinke

This might be my favorite example on this entire list, because it represents a matchup between two of baseball’s most cerebral players. In Votto, it seems, Greinke has finally found a hitter who can outsmart him. Votto boasts a lifetime 1.362 OPS off the former Cy Young winner, with three homers, five walks and only two strikeouts in 34 plate appearances. I have no idea if this is actually how it shakes out, but it’s fun to imagine Greinke holed up in a video room somewhere watching clips of his history against Votto thinking, “OK, well this guy’s not going to swing at balls off the plate, ever, so I better throw him strikes, except wait — he knows I’m going to know he doesn’t swing at balls off the plate, so he’s going to expect strikes and I should throw him balls. But wait, maybe he’ll figure out that I know he knows I know to throw him balls, so I should throw him strikes….” and on and on into infinity.

4. Clayton Kershaw owns Brandon Belt

This one should hardly come as a surprise, as Kershaw owns practically everyone and it’s a lefty-on-lefty matchup, even if neither player shows a particularly extreme career platoon split. It made this list because it’s so completely overwhelming: Belt has faced Kershaw 47 times — well more than any other pitcher in the Majors — and has gone 3-for-43 with no homers, three walks, a hit by pitch, and (wait for it) 23 strikeouts (!). That’s a career .242 OPS. Kershaw, predictably, also has awesome numbers against Belt’s teammate Hunter Pence — a .211 OPS in 61 PAs — but Pence at least manages to put the ball in play more often.

5. Jose Bautista owns Darren O’Day

O’Day might not constitute a “star” in the traditional sense, but he has been one of the best relievers in the game since joining the Orioles in 2009. He has a 1.88 ERA in that stretch, good enough to earn himself a four-year, $31 million contract this offseason. And as a side-arming righty, he completely shuts down most right-handed hitters, holding them to a collective .541 OPS in 1,138 career PAs to date. In all that time, he has allowed only 17 total homers to right-handed hitters, and Bautista has four of them in only 24 PAs. The Blue Jays’ slugger is 7-for-18 with four walks and two hit by pitches against the Orioles’ setup man, good for a lifetime 1.597 OPS.

6. K-Rod owns A-Rod

It’s funny because they have similar nicknames, and also because it contributes to Alex Rodriguez’s long-held stigma of failing late in games. A-Rod is 3-for-22 lifetime against Francisco Rodriguez with no homers, one walk, and 11 strikeouts. It makes for a .356 lifetime OPS against the longtime closer. The only pitcher who faced A-Rod more often and beguiled him more frequently, oddly, was Joel Pineiro.

7. Shin-Soo Choo owns Max Scherzer

Scherzer is probably pretty stoked to be on the Nationals now, not only because he signed a $210-million contract with the club but also because it means the only way he could face Shin-Soo Choo in 2016 would be if they saw each other in the All-Star Game or the World Series. Choo’s career 1.714 OPS off Scherzer is better than that of anyone with at least 10 PAs against the ace. The Korean-born outfielder is 12-for-21 with two homers, six walks, and four strikeouts in 27 PAs off Scherzer.

8. Wade Davis owns Edwin Encarnacion

Davis has pretty much owned everyone since he became a full-time reliever with the Royals, but perhaps none more thoroughly than Encarnacion — who’s certainly no slouch. Most of their matchups came back in 2011, before their respective breakout seasons, but Encarnacion is 2-for-25 with a .200 OPS and no walks, no homers and six strikeouts against Davis in his career.

9. Paul Goldschmidt owns Tim Lincecum

Look: Technically Tim Lincecum shouldn’t count as an active player because he remains a free agent, but he hasn’t retired yet and this one’s too overwhelming to leave out. Goldschmidt probably goes home every night and checks his Google News alert for Tim Lincecum, hoping the diminutive righty will catch on with another NL West team, because Goldschmidt is 15-for-28 with seven homers, four walks and five strikeouts in 34 PAs against Lincecum. That makes for a 1.916 OPS.

10. Chris Archer owns Adam Jones

Jones has faced Archer 25 times and he has only thrice gotten the ball out of the infield on a fly — a sac fly to center in 2014 and a pair of fly outs in 2015. The Orioles’ outfielder is 2-for-22 with three walks and seven strikeouts against the Rays’ charismatic ace, with both hits coming on grounders that slipped through the infield. All seven of the strikeouts have been of the swinging variety.

11. Ryan Braun owns Jorge De La Rosa

De La Rosa has the awful misfortune of pitching for the Rockies, a quality that makes him overlooked as a solid MLB starter. But by the park-adjusted ERA+, De La Rosa owned a sturdy 114 mark as a mainstay in the Colorado rotation from 2013-2015, and he ranks among the franchise’s Top 3 in practically every meaningful pitching stat (though that’s hardly a lofty distinction). Five out of the six games he has pitched against Braun have come in Colorado, and they’ve only matched up for 20 total plate appearances — the minimum requirement for this list. But in those 20 plate appearances, Braun has a 2.438 OPS against De La Rosa. The Brewers slugger is 11-for-16 with four doubles, four homers, four walks and one strikeout against the Rockies’ de facto ace.

12. Felix Hernandez owns Josh Reddick

Reddick’s a pretty good hitter who would probably look way better if he never, ever had to face Felix Hernandez. In 55 PAs against King Felix, Reddick is 7-for-52 with no homers, three walks, 12 strikeouts, and a .355 OPS. That’s the lowest mark of anyone with more than 40 PAs against Hernandez.

13. Bryce Harper owns Julio Teheran

Harper makes this list twice because he’s Bryce Harper, and because his dominance over Braves starter Julio Teheran comes with some history: Teheran sparked a bench-clearing incident by plunking Harper in a 2013 game after Harper spent some time enjoying a long home run off the righty, and this year Harper hit his first career grand slam and 100th career homer off Teheran. That shot was Harper’s fifth off Teheran — the most he has against any opposing pitcher. He is now 12-for-28 with three doubles, five homers, four walks, five strikeouts, and a 1.587 OPS against Teheran.