He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds and in NPB for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Soto was born in Manatí, Puerto Rico and attended Colegio Marista High School.

He played the rest of the 2007 season with the Gulf Coast League Reds rookie-class team, hitting .303 with two homers and 28 RBI.

[3] In 2014, he began the season on the Reds' big-league roster, and tallied his first career RBI on 7 April against the St. Louis Cardinals with a sacrifice fly off Trevor Rosenthal to drive in Ryan Ludwick.

After splitting time between the Double-A Harrisburg Senators and the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs in 2016 and putting up a combined .274/.318/.408 slash line with 10 home runs, Soto was invited to major league spring training as a non-roster player in 2017.

[7] Soto was not selected to the Nationals roster, but he went on to have a much stronger season with Harrisburg and then Syracuse, with a .311/.364/.528 slash line and 24 home runs across both levels.

[9] On 10 November 2017, Soto signed with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB).

[14] On 17 May 2023, Soto hit his 150th home run in NPB, placing him 4th all-time in BayStars history for foreign players.