MLB / Players

Mario Soto

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 174 lb

BornJuly 12, 1956 · Bani, Peravia, D.R.

MLB debutJuly 21, 1977

Final gameJune 16, 1988

Seasons12 (1977–1988)

Cincinnati Reds 1977–1988

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified pitchers

70.5

84.6

32.1

11.5

78.2

SHO

17.9

196

69.2

102

19.2

104

6.4

214

98.7

3.8

256.7

83.3

ERA

3.58

47.4

WHIP

1.169

75.6

K/9

7.50

93.6

FIP

3.71

48.7

FIP-

98.9

ERA+

104.9

46.2

sWAR

2.9

of 79 qualified 1985 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.0

64.9

sWAR

21.2

94.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1977	12	17	13	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	.077	.188	.077	.264	-26.0	-26.0	.151	-0.4
1978	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.4	-100.0	.000	0.4
1979	25	7	7	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	2	.571	.571	.571	1.143	232.6	213.7	.530	-0.2
1980	54	54	46	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	16	.043	.043	.043	.087	-100.9	-75.5	.041	2.6
1981	25	66	59	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	24	.068	.083	.068	.151	-80.3	-56.8	.075	1.8
1982	37	100	84	5	14	4	0	0	5	4	25	.167	.213	.214	.428	14.4	19.4	.207	5.4
1983	35	100	88	6	11	3	0	0	2	1	26	.125	.135	.159	.294	-37.2	-20.0	.137	6.0
1984	33	92	87	5	18	5	0	1	9	0	28	.207	.205	.299	.503	25.9	37.5	.227	3.3
1985	37	90	83	3	11	0	1	0	4	1	24	.133	.143	.157	.299	-34.7	-17.7	.140	2.9
1986	20	33	27	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	6	.111	.111	.148	.259	-50.2	-30.0	.117	-0.2
1987	6	12	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.083	.083	.083	.167	-76.8	-56.2	.076	-0.1
1988	14	29	22	1	1	0	0	0	1	3	7	.045	.160	.045	.205	-40.9	-38.9	.127	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1977	12	10	2	6	0	2	1	60	36	26	44	12	60.7	5.34	1.418	6.53	5.29	133.6	74.1	-0.4
1978	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	13	5	13	13	1	18.0	2.50	1.444	6.50	4.07	113.9	142.8	0.4
1979	25	0	3	2	0	0	0	33	22	30	32	2	37.3	5.30	1.688	7.71	4.17	111.1	70.7	-0.2
1980	53	12	10	8	4	3	1	126	65	84	182	11	190.3	3.07	1.103	8.61	2.94	81.8	117.0	2.6
1981	25	25	12	9	0	10	3	142	64	61	151	13	175.0	3.29	1.160	7.77	3.01	84.9	107.6	1.8
1982	35	34	14	13	0	13	2	202	80	71	274	19	257.7	2.79	1.060	9.57	2.45	66.7	131.6	5.4
1983	34	34	17	13	0	18	3	207	82	95	242	28	273.7	2.70	1.104	7.96	3.33	88.4	139.7	6.0
1984	33	33	18	7	0	13	0	181	93	87	185	26	237.3	3.53	1.129	7.02	3.82	102.1	106.1	3.3
1985	36	36	12	15	0	9	1	196	102	104	214	30	256.7	3.58	1.169	7.50	3.71	98.9	104.9	2.9
1986	19	19	5	10	0	1	1	113	55	46	67	15	105.0	4.71	1.514	5.74	4.67	121.3	81.6	-0.2
1987	6	6	3	2	0	0	0	34	18	12	11	7	31.7	5.12	1.453	3.13	6.18	146.6	82.4	-0.1
1988	14	14	3	7	0	3	1	88	45	28	34	8	87.0	4.66	1.333	3.52	4.16	116.5	76.6	-0.4

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

303

603

530

RBI

166

.1321

OBP

.1523

SLG

.1660

OPS

.3183

Pitching

G (P)

297

224

100

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,730

SO (P)

1,449

260th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

657

459th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.469

424th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1859

133rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.54

134th-highest career K/9

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	TB
1985-05-19	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	2	4
1984-06-30	WSH @ CIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1984-09-21	CIN @ HOU Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3	3
1982-05-01	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	3
1984-05-22	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1980-09-09	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	15	0
1982-08-17	NYM @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	0	15	1
1985-09-30	CIN @ SF Gameday	7.0	3	2	2	2	14	1
1984-05-02	HOU @ CIN Gameday	9.0	3	2	1	4	13	1
1981-06-10	CIN @ NYM Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	12	0

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.

Honors

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.