Head to head · Career batting

Juan Soto vs Christian Yelich

In 2026 Juan Soto has been worth 3.6 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, 2005–2025, by dbWAR.

Juan Soto NYM

Christian Yelich MIL

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	Juan Soto	Christian Yelich
G	1,207	1,731
PA	5,285	7,527
H	1,196	1,845
2B	210	350
3B	18	37
HR	271	245
RBI	765	910
BB	974	883
SO	898	1,683
SB	104	232
AVG	.281	.282
SLG	.530	.459
WAR	51.6	48.5

2026 season

2026 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Juan Soto	Christian Yelich
G	111	117
PA	482	500
H	110	104
HR	27	12
RBI	68	59
SB	9	11
AVG	.275	.235
OBP	.393	.315
SLG	.515	.378
OPS	.908	.692
ISO	.240	.143
BB%	16.2%	9.8%
K%	13.5%	27.0%
wOBA	.388	.307
wRC+	150	92
WAR	3.9	0.3

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	Juan Soto	Christian Yelich
G	43	39
PA	191	170
H	45	33
HR	11	2
RBI	30	8
BB	27	26
SO	40	39
SB	2	9
AVG	.281	.232
OBP	.389	.359
SLG	.537	.324
OPS	.927	.683

Juan Soto’s full profile →Christian Yelich’s full profile →

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

Juan Soto vs

Christian Yelich vs

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.