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Juan Soto

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 224 lb
Number: #22

Born: October 25, 1998 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 15, 2018
Salary, 2026: $51.9M

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dbWAR: 51.6
PA: 482
AVG: .275
OBP: .393
SLG: .515
wRC+: 150

Juan Soto is a left fielder for the New York Mets. In 2026 he hit 27 home runs and knocked in 68 RBIs, notching 110 hits across 482 plate appearances in 111 games. His batting average was .275, 12.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .393 clip and slugged .515, for an OPS of .908, 26.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 4th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.2 mph off the bat, hit 48.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 13.4% of them and made contact on 79.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 150 wRC+ puts his offence 50% above average. That comes to 3.9 dbWAR — +27.5 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +1.0 on double plays, -6.5 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, 2026 regular season.

wRC+150

wOBA.388

ISO.240

BB%16.2%

WAR3.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +37.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	NYM	111	482	110	27	68	9	78	65	.275	.393	.515	.240	.268	16.2%	13.5%	.388	+27.5	150	3.9
2025	NYM	160	715	152	43	105	38	127	137	.263	.396	.525	.262	.270	17.8%	19.2%	.393	+46.2	155	7.1
2024	NYY	157	713	166	41	109	7	129	119	.288	.419	.569	.281	.298	18.1%	16.7%	.424	+65.7	178	8.5
2023	SD	162	708	156	35	109	12	132	129	.275	.410	.519	.245	.296	18.6%	18.2%	.397	+45.8	157	6.2
2022	WSH/SD	153	664	127	27	62	6	135	96	.242	.401	.452	.210	.249	20.3%	14.5%	.380	+36.5	148	5.6
2021	WSH	151	654	157	29	95	9	145	93	.313	.465	.534	.221	.332	22.2%	14.2%	.426	+59.7	179	7.2
2020	WSH	47	196	54	13	37	6	41	28	.351	.490	.695	.344	.363	20.9%	14.3%	.480	+26.5	212	3.4
2019	WSH	150	659	153	34	110	12	108	132	.282	.401	.548	.266	.312	16.4%	20.0%	.399	+42.7	147	5.6
2018	WSH	116	494	121	22	70	5	79	99	.292	.406	.517	.225	.338	16.0%	20.0%	.396	+31.2	148	4.2

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Juan Soto's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024 Post	NYY	Postseason total	14	64	49	12	16	3	4	9	14	9	0	.327	.469	.633	1.101
		ALDS	4	18	14	1	4	1	0	2	3	4	0	.286	.389	.357	.746
		ALCS	5	23	19	5	7	1	3	6	4	3	0	.368	.478	.895	1.373
		World Series	5	23	16	6	5	1	1	1	7	2	0	.313	.522	.563	1.084
2022 Post	SD	Postseason total	12	52	46	7	11	2	2	7	4	10	1	.239	.314	.413	.727
		Wild Card	3	14	12	0	4	0	0	2	1	2	0	.333	.385	.333	.718
		NLDS	4	17	16	3	3	1	0	1	1	3	1	.188	.235	.250	.485
		NLCS	5	21	18	4	4	1	2	4	2	5	0	.222	.333	.611	.944
2019 Post	WSH	Postseason total	17	75	65	12	18	3	5	14	9	21	1	.277	.373	.554	.927
		Wild Card	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
		NLDS	5	22	18	4	5	0	2	4	3	4	0	.278	.409	.611	1.020
		NLCS	4	17	16	2	3	1	0	1	1	7	0	.188	.235	.250	.485
		World Series	7	32	27	6	9	2	3	7	5	8	1	.333	.438	.741	1.178
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	43	191	160	31	45	8	11	30	27	40	2	.281	.389	.537	.927

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	168	149	40	6	17	24	.268	.347	.430	.339	14.3%
vs RHP	314	251	70	21	61	41	.279	.417	.566	.414	13.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 335 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 13.4%
Exit velocity: 92.2
Max exit velo: 114.2
Hard hit: 48.4%
Sweet spot: 33.7%
Launch angle: 16.0°

Barrel rate13.4%

Exit velocity92.2 mph

Hard hit rate48.4%

Contact rate79.1%

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, 2026.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .243.

Situational hitting

How Juan Soto hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	482	—	—	—	—	—	—	.275	.393	.515	.388
Bases empty	284	247	62	16	16	36	41	.251	.349	.490	.367
Runner on first	97	86	29	6	14	11	12	.337	.412	.593	.434
Runners on	198	153	48	11	52	42	24	.314	.457	.556	.420
RISP	101	67	19	5	38	31	12	.284	.500	.507	.403

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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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.