Head to head · Career batting

Ryan Braun vs Juan Soto

In 2020 Juan Soto has been worth 3.2 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.

Ryan Braun MIL

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	Ryan Braun	Juan Soto
G	1,765	1,207
PA	7,339	5,285
H	1,963	1,196
2B	408	210
3B	49	18
HR	352	271
RBI	1,154	765
BB	586	974
SO	1,363	898
SB	216	104
AVG	.296	.281
SLG	.532	.530
WAR	52.9	51.6

2020 season

2020 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Juan Soto
G	39	47
PA	141	196
H	30	54
HR	8	13
RBI	26	37
SB	1	6
AVG	.233	.351
OBP	.281	.490
SLG	.488	.695
OPS	.769	1.185
ISO	.256	.344
BB%	5.0%	20.9%
K%	19.1%	14.3%
wOBA	.323	.480
wRC+	100	212
WAR	0.2	3.4

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.
Statistic	Ryan Braun	Juan Soto
G	27	43
PA	114	191
H	35	45
HR	2	11
RBI	16	30
BB	6	27
SO	28	40
SB	3	2
AVG	.330	.281
OBP	.368	.389
SLG	.491	.537
OPS	.859	.927

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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.