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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 Schools: American Military Academy (Guaynabo, PR), 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 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Rangers 2005-2012
2013 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$2.75M (13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 5.096, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Wasserman Media Group [*]
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Fine Details  · Last updated Feb 12, 2013 3:17PM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #1541. Shea Hillenbrand… #1542. Germany Schaefer… #1543. Luke Scott… #1544. GEOVANY SOTO… #1545. Jose Lopez… #1546. Bill Phillips… #1547. Tim Jordan… 

Standard Batting

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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
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 NL 11 26 25 1 5 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 .200 .231 .240 .471 20 6 0 1 0 0 0 /2
2007 24 CHC NL 18 60 54 12 21 6 0 3 8 0 0 5 14 .389 .433 .667 1.100 174 36 1 0 0 1 0 2
2008 25 CHC NL 141 563 494 66 141 35 2 23 86 0 1 62 121 .285 .364 .504 .868 119 249 11 2 0 5 6 *2/D AS,MVP-13,RoY-1
2009 26 CHC NL 102 389 331 27 72 19 1 11 47 1 0 50 77 .218 .321 .381 .702 80 126 19 3 0 5 3 2
2010 27 CHC NL 105 387 322 47 90 19 0 17 53 0 1 62 83 .280 .393 .497 .890 135 160 5 0 0 3 4 2/D
2011 28 CHC NL 125 474 421 46 96 26 0 17 54 0 0 45 124 .228 .310 .411 .721 96 173 12 6 0 2 3 *2
2012 29 TOT MLB 99 361 324 45 64 12 1 11 39 1 0 30 76 .198 .270 .343 .613 64 111 12 3 2 2 1 2/D
2012 29 CHC NL 52 197 176 26 35 6 1 6 14 0 0 19 35 .199 .284 .347 .631 72 61 6 2 0 0 1 2
2012 29 TEX AL 47 164 148 19 29 6 0 5 25 1 0 11 41 .196 .253 .338 .591 53 50 6 1 2 2 0 2/D
8 Yrs 602 2261 1972 244 489 118 4 82 289 2 2 254 500 .248 .336 .437 .772 102 861 60 15 2 18 17
162 Game Avg. 162 608 531 66 132 32 1 22 78 1 1 68 135 .248 .336 .437 .772 102 232 16 4 1 5 5
CHC (8 yrs) 555 2097 1824 225 460 112 4 77 264 1 2 243 459 .252 .342 .445 .787 105 811 54 14 0 16 17
TEX (1 yr) 47 164 148 19 29 6 0 5 25 1 0 11 41 .196 .253 .338 .591 53 50 6 1 2 2 0
NL (8 yrs) 555 2097 1824 225 460 112 4 77 264 1 2 243 459 .252 .342 .445 .787 105 811 54 14 0 16 17
AL (1 yr) 47 164 148 19 29 6 0 5 25 1 0 11 41 .196 .253 .338 .591 53 50 6 1 2 2 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2005 22 CHC NL 1 1 -0 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .468 .500 0.0 0.0 -0
2006 23 CHC NL 11 26 -3 0 1 0 0 -2 -0.2 1 -1 -0.1 .481 .499 -0.1 0.0 -1 /2
2007 24 CHC NL 18 60 7 -1 -0 1 1 8 0.8 2 10 1.0 .544 .505 0.8 0.2 9 2
2008 25 CHC NL 141 563 13 -2 0 -2 8 16 1.6 15 32 3.1 .512 .510 3.3 0.5 34 $401,000 *2/D AS,MVP-13,RoY-1
2009 26 CHC NL 102 389 -10 -1 -3 -1 5 -9 -1.0 11 1 0.1 .491 .494 0.2 0.5 2 $575,000 2
2010 27 CHC NL 105 387 19 -1 0 -3 6 20 2.1 11 31 3.1 .520 .513 3.5 0.3 34 $575,000 2/D
2011 28 CHC NL 125 474 -1 -2 -1 -1 7 2 0.3 13 15 1.5 .502 .501 1.6 0.7 16 $3,000,000 *2
2012 29 CHC NL 52 197 -5 1 -1 -3 3 -5 -0.5 6 0 0.0 .489 .497 0.3 0.0 3 $4,300,000 2
2012 29 TEX AL 47 164 -7 -1 -1 -5 2 -11 -1.1 6 -6 -0.6 .475 .493 -0.1 -0.3 -1 2/D
8 Seasons 602 2261 13 -7 -4 -14 32 19 1.9 63 82 8.1 .503 .501 9.5 2.0 96 $8,851,000
CHC (8 yrs) 555 2097 20 -7 -4 -9 30 30 3.0 57 87 8.7 .505 .502 9.6 2.3 96 $8,851,000
TEX (1 yr) 47 164 -7 -1 -1 -5 2 -11 -1.1 6 -6 -0.6 .475 .493 -0.1 -0.3 -1

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2007 24 CHC NL NLDS ARI L 2 8 6 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 .167 .375 .667 1.042 4 0 0 0 0 0
2008 25 CHC NL NLDS LAD L 3 12 11 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .182 .250 .273 .523 3 0 0 0 0 0
2012 29 TEX AL ALWC BAL L 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Yrs (3 Series) 6 22 19 1 3 1 0 1 2 0 0 3 5 .158 .273 .368 .641 7 0 0 0 0 0
1 ALWC 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 NLDS 5 20 17 1 3 1 0 1 2 0 0 3 4 .176 .300 .412 .712 7 0 0 0 0 0

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2006 CHC NL 23 C 7 7 5 55.0 71 66 4 1 0 .986 -1 0 -22 0 11.45 10.00 .992 7.36 7.31 0 2 5 0 0% 28% 0
2007 CHC NL 24 C 16 13 11 122.0 119 109 10 0 0 1.000 1 1 10 10 8.78 7.44 .991 7.39 7.36 0 2 10 4 29% 25% 0
2008 CHC NL 25 C 136 131 110 1150.1 1071 1011 55 5 9 .995 1 -2 1 -2 8.34 7.84 .993 7.65 7.60 5 40 69 25 27% 27% 0 AS,MVP-13,RoY-1
2008 CHC NL 25 DH 3 3 AS,MVP-13,RoY-1
2009 CHC NL 26 C 96 92 82 811.0 775 720 50 5 9 .994 -3 -1 -4 -1 8.55 8.02 .993 7.77 7.70 3 36 59 23 28% 29% 0
2010 CHC NL 27 C 104 97 85 847.1 811 762 45 4 7 .995 0 -3 0 -4 8.57 7.76 .992 8.05 7.97 2 26 74 21 22% 29% 1
2010 CHC NL 27 DH 1 1
2011 CHC NL 28 C 122 119 112 1041.2 994 899 82 13 7 .987 1 -1 1 -1 8.48 8.04 .992 7.98 7.96 5 33 85 36 30% 28% 1
2012 TOT MLB 29 C 96 92 88 806.2 759 714 37 8 3 .989 -2 -8 -3 -11 8.38 7.82 .992 8.19 8.11 2 28 65 21 24% 26% 0
2012 CHC NL 29 C 52 51 50 444.2 388 356 25 7 2 .982 1 -3 2 -8 7.71 7.33 .992 8.36 8.26 1 11 37 14 27% 27% 0
2012 TEX AL 29 C 44 41 38 362.0 371 358 12 1 1 .997 -3 -5 -9 -17 9.20 8.41 .993 7.99 7.94 1 17 28 7 20% 25% 0
2012 TEX AL 29 DH 2 1
7 Seasons C 577 551 493 4834.0 4600 4281 283 36 35 .992 -3 -14 -1 -3 8.50 7.91 .992 7.89 7.83 17 167 367 130 26% 28% 2
8 Seasons TOT 577 551 493 4834.0 4600 4281 283 36 35 .992 -3 -14 -1 -2 8.50 7.91 .992 7.89 7.83 17 167 367 130 26% 28% 2
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

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 (951st)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2008 NL  136 (4th)
2010 NL  104 (5th)
Active  577 (23rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2008 NL  1,011 (3rd)
2010 NL  762 (5th)
Active  4,281 (19th)

Assists as C s c a p y
2011 NL  82 (1st)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
2011 NL  13 (1st)
2012 NL  7 (4th)
Active  36 (18th)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
2008 NL  9 (2nd)
2009 NL  9 (2nd)
2010 NL  7 (4th)
2011 NL  7 (5th)
Active  35 (18th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
2008 NL  69 (3rd)
2010 NL  74 (3rd)
2011 NL  85 (2nd)
Active  367 (14th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
2008 NL  25 (4th)
2009 NL  23 (4th)
2011 NL  36 (1st)
Active  130 (23rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
2008 NL  8.34 (3rd)
2009 NL  8.55 (2nd)
2010 NL  8.57 (1st)
2011 NL  8.48 (5th)
Active  8.50 (1st)
Career  8.50 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
2008 NL  7.84 (1st)
2009 NL  8.02 (3rd)
2010 NL  7.76 (5th)
2011 NL  8.04 (2nd)
Active  7.91 (1st)
Career  7.91 (1st)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
2008 NL  .995 (3rd)
2010 NL  .995 (3rd)
Active  .992 (14th)
Career  .992 (39th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 7 (1366), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 9 (1703), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Catcher (171st), 8.1 career WAR/8.8 7yr-peak WAR/8.4 JAWS
Average HOF C (out of 14) = 49.3 career WAR/32.0 7yr-peak WAR/40.7 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Rick Wilkins (955)
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  3. Ozzie Virgil (951)
  4. Chris Iannetta (946)
  5. Dick Dietz (940)
  6. Aaron Robinson (938)
  7. Miguel Montero (937)
  8. Matt Wieters (937)
  9. Jim Pagliaroni (933)
  10. Chris Snyder (930)
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  2. Rick Wilkins (965)
  3. Jim Pagliaroni (956)
  4. Mike Macfarlane (955)
  5. John Buck (951)
  6. Andy Seminick (950)
  7. Miguel Olivo (948)
  8. Mike Lieberthal (946)
  9. Chris Iannetta (946)
  10. Ed Bailey (945)
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Bill DeLancey (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Jody Davis (967)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Rick Wilkins (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Ed Bailey (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Tom Haller (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
200825Chicago Cubs$401,000
200926Chicago Cubs$575,000
201027Chicago Cubs$575,000
201128Chicago Cubs$3,000,000
201229Chicago Cubs$4,300,000contracts
201330Texas Rangers$2,750,000
Earliest Free Agent: 2014
Career to date (may be incomplete)$8,851,000Does not include future salaries
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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