Head to head · Career batting

Miguel Cabrera vs Juan Soto

In 2023 Juan Soto has been worth 6.8 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.

Miguel Cabrera DET

Juan Soto SD

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	Miguel Cabrera	Juan Soto
G	2,548	1,207
PA	10,765	5,285
H	2,913	1,196
2B	575	210
3B	13	18
HR	466	271
RBI	1,707	765
BB	1,165	974
SO	1,873	898
SB	35	104
AVG	.309	.281
SLG	.520	.530
WAR	71.8	51.6

2023 season

2023 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Miguel Cabrera	Juan Soto
G	98	162
PA	370	708
H	86	156
HR	4	35
RBI	34	109
SB	0	12
AVG	.257	.275
OBP	.322	.410
SLG	.353	.519
OPS	.675	.930
ISO	.096	.245
BB%	8.4%	18.6%
K%	20.0%	18.2%
wOBA	.301	.397
wRC+	84	157
WAR	-0.6	6.2

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	Miguel Cabrera	Juan Soto
G	38	43
PA	161	191
H	39	45
HR	9	11
RBI	26	30
BB	23	27
SO	29	40
SB	3	2
AVG	.285	.281
OBP	.391	.389
SLG	.540	.537
OPS	.931	.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.