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Mario Soto played 12 major-league seasons (1977-1988) as a P (297). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 21 | CIN | 12 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .077 | .264 | -23 |
| 1978 | 22 | CIN | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1979 | 23 | CIN | 25 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .571 | 1.143 | 225 |
| 1980 | 24 | CIN | 54 | 46 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | .043 | .087 | -75 |
| 1981 | 25 | CIN | 25 | 59 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 | .068 | .151 | -55 |
| 1982 | 26 | CIN | 37 | 84 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 25 | .167 | .428 | 24 |
| 1983 | 27 | CIN | 35 | 88 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 26 | .125 | .294 | -16 |
| 1984 | 28 | CIN | 33 | 87 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 28 | .207 | .503 | 45 |
| 1985 | 29 | CIN | 37 | 83 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 24 | .133 | .299 | -13 |
| 1986 | 30 | CIN | 20 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .111 | .259 | -26 |
| 1987 | 31 | CIN | 6 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .083 | .167 | -54 |
| 1988 | 32 | CIN | 14 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | .045 | .205 | -36 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 21 | CIN | 12 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 60.2 | 44 | 26 | 5.34 | 73 |
| 1978 | 22 | CIN | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 2.50 | 143 |
| 1979 | 23 | CIN | 25 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 37.1 | 32 | 30 | 5.30 | 70 |
| 1980 | 24 | CIN | 53 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 190.1 | 182 | 84 | 3.07 | 117 |
| 1981 | 25 | CIN | 25 | 25 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 175 | 151 | 61 | 3.29 | 106 |
| 1982 | 26 | CIN | 35 | 34 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 257.2 | 274 | 71 | 2.79 | 129 |
| 1983 | 27 | CIN | 34 | 34 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 273.2 | 242 | 95 | 2.70 | 134 |
| 1984 | 28 | CIN | 33 | 33 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 237.1 | 185 | 87 | 3.53 | 102 |
| 1985 | 29 | CIN | 36 | 36 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 256.2 | 214 | 104 | 3.58 | 100 |
| 1986 | 30 | CIN | 19 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 105 | 67 | 46 | 4.71 | 79 |
| 1987 | 31 | CIN | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 31.2 | 11 | 12 | 5.12 | 80 |
| 1988 | 32 | CIN | 14 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 87 | 34 | 28 | 4.66 | 74 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | P | 12 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| 1978 | P | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | P | 25 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | P | 53 | 12 | 12 | 25 | 3 | 2 |
| 1981 | P | 25 | 25 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 1 |
| 1982 | P | 35 | 34 | 10 | 29 | 3 | 1 |
| 1983 | P | 34 | 34 | 22 | 28 | 5 | 1 |
| 1984 | P | 33 | 33 | 12 | 22 | 3 | 1 |
| 1985 | P | 36 | 36 | 13 | 34 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | P | 19 | 20 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | P | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | P | 14 | 14 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 1 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1984, 1983, 1982, 1980.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Cy Young Award | NL | 8 | 1 / 120 | 0 |
| 1982 | Cy Young Award | NL | 9 | 0 / 120 | 0 |
| 1983 | Cy Young Award | NL | 2 | 61 / 120 | 2 |
| 1983 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 15 | 16 / 336 | 0 |
| 1984 | Cy Young Award | NL | 6 | 2 / 120 | 0 |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.