Head to head · Career batting

Xander Bogaerts vs Juan Soto

In 2026 Juan Soto has been worth 1.0 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.

Xander Bogaerts SD

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	Xander Bogaerts	Juan Soto
G	1,810	1,207
PA	7,675	5,285
H	1,942	1,196
2B	402	210
3B	19	18
HR	210	271
RBI	895	765
BB	670	974
SO	1,379	898
SB	148	104
AVG	.283	.281
SLG	.438	.530
WAR	50.1	51.6

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Xander Bogaerts	Juan Soto
G	153	111
PA	606	482
H	120	110
HR	13	27
RBI	57	68
SB	22	9
AVG	.231	.275
OBP	.332	.393
SLG	.344	.515
OPS	.676	.908
ISO	.113	.240
BB%	12.7%	16.2%
K%	18.0%	13.5%
wOBA	.309	.388
wRC+	97	150
WAR	2.9	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	Xander Bogaerts	Juan Soto
G	60	43
PA	242	191
H	51	45
HR	7	11
RBI	23	30
BB	23	27
SO	49	40
SB	1	2
AVG	.235	.281
OBP	.306	.389
SLG	.387	.537
OPS	.693	.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.