Eric Soderholm
Minnesota Twins 1971–1975; Chicago White Sox 1977–1979; Texas Rangers 1979; New York Yankees 1980
Percentile snapshot
1978 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1978 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 21 | 78 | 64 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .156 | .299 | .266 | .564 | 63.7 | 60.5 | .278 | 0.0 |
| 1972 | 93 | 313 | 287 | 28 | 54 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 39 | 19 | 48 | 3 | 3 | .188 | .245 | .359 | .604 | 68.4 | 75.0 | .279 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 35 | 135 | 111 | 22 | 33 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 2 | .297 | .414 | .423 | .837 | 144.1 | 133.5 | .396 | 1.2 |
| 1974 | 141 | 524 | 464 | 63 | 128 | 18 | 3 | 10 | 51 | 48 | 68 | 7 | 3 | .276 | .349 | .392 | .741 | 114.8 | 110.7 | .348 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 117 | 475 | 419 | 62 | 120 | 17 | 2 | 11 | 58 | 53 | 66 | 3 | 5 | .286 | .365 | .415 | .780 | 123.4 | 119.2 | .364 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 130 | 516 | 460 | 77 | 129 | 20 | 3 | 25 | 67 | 47 | 47 | 2 | 4 | .280 | .350 | .500 | .850 | 128.5 | 128.9 | .373 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 143 | 510 | 457 | 57 | 118 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 67 | 39 | 44 | 2 | 2 | .258 | .318 | .431 | .749 | 107.0 | 108.4 | .338 | 2.3 |
| 1979 | 119 | 396 | 357 | 46 | 93 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 53 | 31 | 28 | 0 | 1 | .261 | .318 | .395 | .713 | 92.2 | 92.2 | .322 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 95 | 304 | 275 | 38 | 79 | 13 | 1 | 11 | 35 | 27 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .287 | .353 | .462 | .815 | 126.6 | 125.2 | .367 | 1.5 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-08-17 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 1979-08-08 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 1975-06-13 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1977-08-09 | SEA @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1978-07-14 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.