Head to head · Career batting

Albert Pujols vs Juan Soto

In 2022 Juan Soto has been worth 3.3 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.

Two of the 25 most valuable batting careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.

Albert Pujols STL

Juan Soto WSH

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	Albert Pujols	Juan Soto
G	2,447	1,207
PA	10,313	5,285
H	2,597	1,196
2B	497	210
3B	7	18
HR	543	271
RBI	1,714	765
BB	1,069	974
SO	1,125	898
SB	104	104
AVG	.287	.281
SLG	.523	.530
WAR	55.2	51.6

2022 season

2022 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Albert Pujols	Juan Soto
G	109	153
PA	351	664
H	83	127
HR	24	27
RBI	68	62
SB	1	6
AVG	.270	.242
OBP	.345	.401
SLG	.550	.452
OPS	.895	.853
ISO	.280	.210
BB%	8.0%	20.3%
K%	15.7%	14.5%
wOBA	.382	.380
wRC+	153	148
WAR	2.3	5.6

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	Albert Pujols	Juan Soto
G	60	43
PA	238	191
H	63	45
HR	11	11
RBI	33	30
BB	35	27
SO	32	40
SB	1	2
AVG	.317	.281
OBP	.424	.389
SLG	.548	.537
OPS	.972	.927

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More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

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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.