Head to head · Career batting

Paul Goldschmidt vs Juan Soto

In 2026 Juan Soto has been worth 3.0 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.

Paul Goldschmidt NYY

Juan Soto NYM

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	Paul Goldschmidt	Juan Soto
G	2,169	1,207
PA	9,206	5,285
H	2,277	1,196
2B	490	210
3B	25	18
HR	390	271
RBI	1,284	765
BB	1,115	974
SO	2,065	898
SB	175	104
AVG	.286	.281
SLG	.501	.530
WAR	59.7	51.6

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Paul Goldschmidt	Juan Soto
G	104	111
PA	380	482
H	87	110
HR	18	27
RBI	52	68
SB	1	9
AVG	.252	.275
OBP	.313	.393
SLG	.452	.515
OPS	.765	.908
ISO	.200	.240
BB%	7.6%	16.2%
K%	22.6%	13.5%
wOBA	.332	.388
wRC+	105	150
WAR	0.9	3.9

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	Paul Goldschmidt	Juan Soto
G	32	43
PA	121	191
H	28	45
HR	8	11
RBI	16	30
BB	11	27
SO	28	40
SB	1	2
AVG	.262	.281
OBP	.347	.389
SLG	.533	.537
OPS	.880	.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.