Head to head · Career batting

Matt Holliday vs Juan Soto

In 2018 Juan Soto has been worth 3.8 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.

Matt Holliday COL

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	Matt Holliday	Juan Soto
G	1,780	1,207
PA	7,542	5,285
H	1,980	1,196
2B	437	210
3B	29	18
HR	302	271
RBI	1,163	765
BB	771	974
SO	1,276	898
SB	105	104
AVG	.300	.281
SLG	.512	.530
WAR	51.1	51.6

2018 season

2018 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Matt Holliday	Juan Soto
G	25	116
PA	65	494
H	15	121
HR	2	22
RBI	3	70
SB	0	5
AVG	.283	.292
OBP	.415	.406
SLG	.434	.517
OPS	.849	.923
ISO	.151	.225
BB%	18.5%	16.0%
K%	27.7%	20.0%
wOBA	.381	.396
wRC+	133	148
WAR	0.4	4.2

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	Matt Holliday	Juan Soto
G	77	43
PA	314	191
H	71	45
HR	13	11
RBI	37	30
BB	18	27
SO	62	40
SB	1	2
AVG	.245	.281
OBP	.303	.389
SLG	.421	.537
OPS	.723	.927

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More head to heads

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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.