SS · 2020
Elliot Soto
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 7"
- Weight
- 160 lb
- Born
- August 21, 1989 in Elgin, IL, USA
- MLB debut
- September 25, 2020
- dbWAR
- .1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 7
- AVG
- .333
- OBP
- .429
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 153 100 = avg
Elliot Soto is a shortstop for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2020 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 7 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .333, 36.3% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .429 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of .929, 25.6% higher than the league mark of .740. He averaged 87.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 153 wRC+ puts his offence 53% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.5 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2020.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to +0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .429 | .500 | .167 | .400 | 14.3% | 14.3% | .406 | +0.5 | 153 | 0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.241 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .267 | 16.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 87.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 94.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 40.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -3.6° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2020.
Situational hitting
How Elliot Soto hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .333 | .429 | .500 | .406 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .360 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .750 | .531 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .400 | .400 | .600 | .425 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2020.
Head to head
Put Elliot Soto beside up to three others.
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.