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Geovany Soto

Geovany Soto

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: January 20, 1983 in San Juan, P.R.
High School: Rio Piedras (Rio Piedras, PR)
Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 11th round of the 2001 amateur draft.
Signed June 26, 2001. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 23, 2005
Team: Cubs 2005-2011
2012 Contract Status: 2nd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$3M (11), 1 yr/$4.3M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.096, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2014 [*],
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All-Star

Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
2001	18	CHC-min	Rk	41	169	150	18	39	16	0	1	20	1	0	15	33	.260	.339	.387	.726		58	3	3	1	0	1	CBZ · ARIZ
2002	19	CHC-min	Rk,A-	45	180	161	25	44	10	2	3	24	0	2	13	36	.273	.335	.416	.751		67	2	3	1	2	1	CBZ,BOI · ARIZ,NORW
2003	20	CHC-min	A+	89	340	297	26	72	12	2	2	38	0	0	31	58	.242	.313	.316	.629		94	10	2	4	6	0	DYT · FLOR
2004	21	CHC-min	AA	104	381	332	47	90	16	0	9	48	1	2	40	71	.271	.355	.401	.756		133	10	5	1	3	1	WTN · SOUL
2005	22	CHC-min	AAA	91	345	292	30	74	14	0	4	39	0	1	48	77	.253	.357	.342	.699		100	15	0	3	2	0	IWA · PCL
2005	22	CHC	NL	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
2006	23	CHC-min	AAA	108	391	342	34	93	21	0	6	38	0	1	41	74	.272	.353	.386	.739		132	10	3	3	2	2	IWA · PCL
2006	23	CHC	NL	11	26	25	1	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.200	.231	.240	.471	61	6	0	1	0	0	0
2007	24	CHC-min	AAA	110	449	385	75	136	31	3	26	109	0	0	53	94	.353	.424	.652	1.076		251	12	1	1	9	0	IWA · PCL
2007	24	CHC	NL	18	60	54	12	21	6	0	3	8	0	0	5	14	.389	.433	.667	1.100	333	36	1	0	0	1	0
2008	25	CHC	NL	141	563	494	66	141	35	2	23	86	0	1	62	121	.285	.364	.504	.868	226	249	11	2	0	5	6		AS,MVP-13,RoY-1
2009	26	CHC-min	AA,Rk	4	14	12	2	4	1	0	2	6	0	0	2	5	.333	.429	.917	1.345		11	0	0	0	0	0	KNX,CBZ · SOUL,ARIZ
2009	26	CHC	NL	102	389	331	27	72	19	1	11	47	1	0	50	77	.218	.321	.381	.702	135	126	19	3	0	5	3
2010	27	CHC	NL	105	387	322	47	90	19	0	17	53	0	1	62	83	.280	.393	.497	.890	230	160	5	0	0	3	4
2011	28	CHC-min	AA	2	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000		0	0	0	0	0	0	KNX · SOUL
2011	28	CHC	NL	125	474	421	46	96	26	0	17	54	0	0	45	124	.228	.310	.411	.721	103	173	12	6	0	2	3
7 Seasons				503	1900	1648	199	425	106	3	71	250	1	2	224	424	.258	.348	.455	.803	171	750	48	12	0	16	16
162 Game Avg.				162	612	531	64	137	34	1	23	81	0	1	72	137	.258	.348	.455	.803	171	242	15	4	0	5	5

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Awards
2005	22	CHC	NL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$
2006	23	CHC	NL	26	-3	0	0	1	-1	0	1	-2	-0.2	-1	-0.1	-0.1	$
2007	24	CHC	NL	60	6	-1	1	0	1	1	2	10	1.0	9	0.9	0.1	$
2008	25	CHC	NL	563	18	-3	0	0	1	8	16	40	4.1	39	4.0	0.1	$401,000	AS,MVP-13,RoY-1
2009	26	CHC	NL	389	-9	-1	-0	-3	-3	6	11	1	0.1	4	0.4	-0.3	$575,000
2010	27	CHC	NL	387	17	-2	2	0	0	6	11	34	3.3	34	3.3	0.0	$575,000
2011	28	CHC	NL	474	2	-2	1	-1	1	8	13	22	2.2	20	2.1	0.1	$3,000,000
7 Seasons				1900	31	-9	4	-3	-1	29	54	104	10.5	105	10.6	-0.1	$4,551,000

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
2005	22	CHC	NL	1	1	0	0.0	48	.000	.000	.199	.000	.251	.000	.291	.000	.542	-100	.000	-0.2	-0.0	.000	.000	.000
2006	23	CHC	NL	26	20	1	1.3	60	.250	.200	.213	.231	.270	.240	.317	.471	.587	61	.080	-1.1	-0.1	.350	.040	.040
2007	24	CHC	NL	60	35	16	12.3	37	.474	.389	.186	.433	.238	.667	.266	1.100	.504	333	.834	10.8	1.0	1.206	.370	.278	.0
2008	25	CHC	NL	563	370	91	6.6	45	.332	.285	.190	.364	.254	.504	.276	.868	.530	226	.633	56.5	5.3	.855	.342	.219	.0
2009	26	CHC	NL	389	283	39	3.7	62	.246	.218	.222	.321	.281	.381	.315	.702	.595	135	.382	13.7	1.3	.647	.317	.163	1.8
2010	27	CHC	NL	387	241	67	7.4	47	.324	.280	.201	.393	.253	.497	.285	.890	.538	230	.708	42.4	4.1	.929	.407	.217	.0
2011	28	CHC	NL	474	339	53	4.2	92	.280	.228	.247	.310	.314	.411	.394	.721	.708	103	.476	2.1	0.2	.665	.290	.183	.0
7 Seasons				1900	1289	267	5.6	61	.303	.258	.213	.348	.274	.455	.316	.803	.590	171	.574	124.3	11.8	.774	.333	.197	2.0
162 Game Avg.				612	415	86	5.6	61	.303	.258	.213	.348	.274	.455	.316	.803	.590	171	.574	40	4	.774	.333	.197	1

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB
2007	24	CHC	NL	NLDS	ARI	L	2	8	6	1	1	0	1	2	2	1	.167	.375	.667	1.042	4
2008	25	CHC	NL	NLDS	LAD	L	3	12	11	0	2	1	0	0	1	3	.182	.250	.273	.523	3
2 Seasons (2 Series)							5	20	17	1	3	1	1	2	3	4	.176	.300	.412	.712	7
2 NLDS							5	20	17	1	3	1	1	2	3	4	.176	.300	.412	.712	7

All-Star Batting

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2008	CHC	NL	25	as C	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GB/FB	GO/AO	IP%	LD%	HR/FB	IF/FB
2005	22	CHC	NL	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%						0.00	0.00	100%	100%	0.0%	0%
2006	23	CHC	NL	26	0.0%	19.2%	0.0%	3.9%	20%		5.0		12.5	1.22	1.50	77%	10%	0.0%	11%
2007	24	CHC	NL	60	5.0%	23.3%	8.3%	15.0%	43%	2.80	3.9	18.0	6.8	0.71	0.73	63%	22%	12.5%	0%
2008	25	CHC	NL	563	4.1%	21.5%	11.0%	10.7%	43%	1.95	4.1	21.5	5.7	0.61	0.90	63%	21%	10.8%	9%
2009	26	CHC	NL	389	2.8%	19.8%	12.9%	8.0%	43%	1.54	4.3	30.1	7.0	0.72	1.01	64%	16%	7.9%	8%
2010	27	CHC	NL	387	4.4%	21.5%	16.0%	9.3%	40%	1.34	3.9	18.9	6.1	0.57	0.88	58%	25%	12.1%	9%
2011	28	CHC	NL	474	3.6%	26.2%	9.5%	9.1%	45%	2.76	3.4	24.8	7.8	0.69	0.82	59%	21%	11.3%	15%
7 Seasons				1900	3.7%	22.3%	11.8%	9.5%	42%	1.89	3.9	23.2	6.6	0.65	0.90	62%	20%	10.5%	10%
MLB Averages					2.6%	17.6%	8.5%	7.9%	34%	2.07	5.1	33.8	7.8	0.80	1.07	70%	19%	7.6%	12%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
2005	22	CHC	NL	-0.3	-0.0	1	-0.0	0.0	-0.0	.81	-0.0	0.0	-0.2	-0.0	0.74	-0.3	0.81	1
2006	23	CHC	NL	-3.1	-0.3	26	-0.4	0.1	-0.5	.96	-0.3	-0.1	-3.6	-0.3	0.96	-3.2	1.61	4
2007	24	CHC	NL	6.3	0.6	61	0.5	1.2	-0.7	.71	0.8	-0.1	6.1	0.6	0.95	9.2	0.08	1
2008	25	CHC	NL	13.9	1.3	567	1.0	11.1	-10.1	1.05	1.9	-1.0	18.7	1.7	1.01	18.4	2.49	5
2009	26	CHC	NL	-9.7	-0.9	390	-0.9	6.7	-7.7	1.10	-0.6	-0.3	-11.6	-1.1	1.01	-8.8	2.40	6
2010	27	CHC	NL	16.9	1.7	396	0.4	6.6	-6.2	.96	2.1	-1.7	20.0	1.9	0.94	23.2	6.39	1
2011	28	CHC	NL	2.1	0.2	480	-0.2	9.9	-10.1	1.14	-0.1	-0.0	-1.5	-0.2	1.04	-0.7	3.29	4
7 Seasons				26.2	2.5	1921	0.3	35.5	-35.2	1.05	3.8	-3.5	27.9	2.6	1.00	37.8	2.44	22

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
2005	22	CHC	NL	0		0	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2006	23	CHC	NL	0	17%	10	0	0		0	0	0	0	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
2007	24	CHC	NL	2	39%	37	0	0		0	0	0	1	25%	3	3	0	1	0	1	4	3	1
2008	25	CHC	NL	4	24%	222	0	1	0%	0	1	3	7	23%	17	16	1	11	4	6	15	10	3
2009	26	CHC	NL	3	14%	114	1	0	100%	1	0	2	2	28%	14	11	2	6	4	2	5	2	3
2010	27	CHC	NL	5	22%	164	0	1	0%	0	1	6	11	30%	25	19	6	5	3	2	13	5	5
2011	28	CHC	NL	5	22%	182	0	0		0	0	8	10	37%	11	8	2	9	4	3	10	4	6
7 Seasons				19	22%	729	1	2	33%	1	2	19	31	29%	71	58	11	32	15	14	48	24	19

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
2005	22	CHC	NL	1	0%	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.81	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0		1	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
2006	23	CHC	NL	26	58%	5	1	0	4	1	0	0	1.61	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		6	0	0%	6	3	50%	19	2	11%	3	2	67%	4	2	50%	0
2007	24	CHC	NL	60	50%	21	2	0	1	0	0	0	0.08	3	0	4	2	1	2	1	0	0	0		9	1	11%	6	1	17%	38	7	18%	2	1	50%	1	1	100%	0
2008	25	CHC	NL	563	25%	141	9	0	5	3	0	2	2.49	23	0	25	18	5	11	12	1	1	0	0%	131	11	8%	56	18	32%	416	64	15%	39	21	54%	28	18	64%	0
2009	26	CHC	NL	389	24%	72	5	0	6	1	0	0	2.40	11	0	18	7	4	6	5	0	0	0		87	19	22%	36	12	33%	303	37	12%	30	17	57%	23	14	61%	0
2010	27	CHC	NL	387	34%	90	4	0	1	0	0	0	6.39	17	0	10	11	6	12	5	0	0	0		69	5	7%	31	8	26%	228	38	17%	29	13	45%	8	3	38%	0
2011	28	CHC	NL	474	25%	96	8	0	4	1	1	1	3.29	17	0	13	10	7	7	10	0	1	0	0%	81	12	15%	46	9	20%	310	40	13%	27	9	33%	21	9	43%	0
7 Seasons				1900	28%	425	29	0	22	6	1	3	2.44	71	0	71	48	23	38	33	1	2	0	0%	383	48	13%	181	51	28%	1315	188	14%	130	63	48%	85	47	55%	0
MLB Averages					54%																			68%			11%			32%			15%			51%			56%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Pit	Pit/PA	Str	Str%	L/Str	S/Str	F/Str	I/Str	AS/Str	I/Bll	AS/Pit	Con	1stS	30%	30c	30s	20%	20c	20s	31%	31c	31s	L/SO	PAu	Pitu	Stru
2005	22	CHC	NL	1	5	5.00	2	40%	0%	0%	50%	50%	100%	0%	40%	100%	100%	0%	0	0	0%	0	0	100%	1	1		0	0	0
2006	23	CHC	NL	26	88	3.38	57	65%	28%	16%	21%	35%	72%	0%	47%	78%	35%	0%	0	0	12%	3	2	12%	3	2	20%	0	0	0
2007	24	CHC	NL	60	235	3.92	140	60%	36%	14%	21%	29%	64%	0%	38%	79%	17%	5%	3	0	13%	8	3	7%	4	3	57%	0	0	0
2008	25	CHC	NL	563	2239	3.98	1327	59%	30%	18%	23%	28%	70%	2%	41%	74%	26%	6%	36	1	16%	92	31	12%	68	44	32%	0	0	0
2009	26	CHC	NL	389	1508	3.88	882	58%	31%	16%	24%	29%	69%	1%	40%	77%	29%	3%	13	1	12%	46	25	8%	31	19	47%	0	0	0
2010	27	CHC	NL	387	1554	4.02	878	56%	35%	16%	21%	28%	65%	2%	37%	75%	25%	6%	24	0	18%	68	24	11%	41	24	43%	0	0	0
2011	28	CHC	NL	474	1875	3.96	1117	60%	35%	20%	18%	27%	65%	1%	39%	69%	23%	7%	31	0	15%	70	18	9%	41	28	33%	0	0	0
7 Seasons				1900	7504	3.95	4403	59%	33%	18%	22%	28%	67%	2%	39%	74%	25%	6%	107	2	15%	287	103	10%	189	121	38%	0	0	0
MLB Averages						3.79		63%	28%	15%	27%	31%	72%	2%	45%	80%	27%	5%			15%			9%			25%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SF	IBB
2005	22	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0
2006	23	12	27	26	1	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.192	.222	.231	.453	56	6	0	1	0	0
2007	24	30	87	80	13	26	7	0	3	10	0	0	5	19	.325	.368	.525	.893	235	42	1	1	1	0
2008	25	171	650	574	79	167	42	2	26	96	0	1	67	140	.291	.365	.507	.872	227	291	12	3	6	6
2009	26	273	1039	905	106	239	61	3	37	143	1	1	117	217	.264	.348	.461	.809	191	417	31	6	11	9
2010	27	378	1426	1227	153	329	80	3	54	196	1	2	179	300	.268	.360	.470	.831	201	577	36	6	14	13
2011	28	503	1900	1648	199	425	106	3	71	250	1	2	224	424	.258	.348	.455	.803	171	750	48	12	16	16

Neutralized Batting

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
2005	22	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1
2006	23	11	26	25	1	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	.200	.231	.240	.471	1	11
2007	24	18	58	52	11	19	5	0	3	7	0	5	14	.365	.414	.635	1.048	14	18
2008	25	141	550	485	60	132	33	2	22	78	0	58	121	.272	.349	.485	.834	82	141
2009	26	102	384	328	25	69	18	1	11	44	1	48	77	.210	.313	.372	.684	38	102
2010	27	105	385	321	46	89	19	0	17	52	0	61	83	.277	.390	.495	.885	62	105
2011	28	125	478	424	48	99	27	0	18	57	0	46	124	.233	.316	.425	.740	55	125
7 Seasons		503	1882	1636	191	413	103	3	71	240	1	218	424	.252	.342	.449	.791	252	503
162 Game Avg.		162	606	527	62	133	33	1	23	77	0	70	137	.252	.342	.449	.791	81	503

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1919 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2008 (C)	Awards (yr lg award) 2008 NL Rookie of the Year	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2008 NL (13, 9%) 0.09 Career Shares (940th)

All-Star Games
2008 (C)

Awards (yr lg award)
2008 NL Rookie of the Year

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2008 NL (13, 9%)
0.09 Career Shares (940th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 7 (1348), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 11 (1506), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Rick Wilkins (969) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ed Bailey (963) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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