MLB / Players

Christy Mathewson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 12, 1880 · Factoryville, PA, USA

MLB debutJuly 17, 1900

Final gameSeptember 4, 1916

Seasons17 (1900–1916)

New York Giants 1900–1915; Cincinnati Reds 1916; New York Giants 1916

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified pitchers

19.2

37.6

27.2

28.8

SHO

199

34.4

96.8

16.8

0.8

186.0

ERA

3.58

11.2

WHIP

1.177

60.8

K/9

2.76

10.4

FIP

2.71

62.4

FIP-

103.7

32.8

ERA+

73.0

4.8

sWAR

-0.3

of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

136.0

98.2

sWAR

97.4

99.9

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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1900	6	12	11	1	2	2	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.182	.250	.364	.614	67.5	68.3	.289	-0.1
1901	42	136	130	10	28	0	1	0	7	2	25	1	0	.215	.227	.231	.458	32.8	33.1	.219	6.5
1902	43	140	130	10	26	3	0	2	12	6	16	2	0	.200	.246	.269	.516	57.9	59.1	.256	5.2
1903	45	149	124	13	28	3	0	1	20	8	14	1	0	.226	.278	.274	.552	59.1	56.6	.272	8.1
1904	48	152	133	15	30	5	3	0	17	9	26	3	0	.226	.280	.308	.588	80.5	80.9	.286	7.5
1905	44	141	127	13	30	5	0	2	16	10	12	2	0	.236	.307	.323	.630	88.7	87.8	.308	11.3
1906	38	103	91	6	24	4	1	0	14	9	16	0	0	.264	.330	.330	.660	106.0	105.7	.328	2.3
1907	41	119	107	8	20	3	1	0	7	5	12	1	0	.187	.250	.234	.484	47.0	50.4	.246	5.6
1908	56	147	129	11	20	2	2	0	11	9	12	0	0	.155	.221	.202	.423	29.5	33.3	.216	9.3
1909	37	100	95	9	25	4	1	1	12	4	9	0	0	.263	.293	.358	.651	96.1	101.8	.314	8.6
1910	38	124	107	9	25	5	1	1	10	12	13	1	0	.234	.317	.327	.644	89.2	89.0	.319	8.1
1911	45	121	112	12	22	2	0	0	12	5	13	2	0	.196	.237	.214	.452	26.0	27.9	.223	7.7
1912	43	120	110	14	29	4	1	0	10	6	8	2	0	.264	.308	.318	.626	70.1	71.5	.301	7.9
1913	40	115	103	7	19	0	0	0	9	8	13	1	0	.184	.243	.184	.428	23.7	23.9	.216	6.9
1914	41	120	105	8	23	3	1	0	4	11	12	4	0	.219	.293	.267	.560	71.4	69.9	.279	2.4
1915	27	62	51	3	8	4	0	0	1	7	11	0	1	.157	.271	.235	.506	62.8	57.6	.259	-0.3
1916	13	28	22	2	3	1	0	0	2	4	4	0	0	.136	.269	.182	.451	50.1	32.5	.241	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1900	6	1	0	3	0	1	0	37	19	20	15	1	33.7	5.08	1.693	4.01	4.46	120.7	72.7	-0.1
1901	40	38	20	17	0	36	5	288	90	97	221	3	336.0	2.41	1.146	5.92	2.72	82.2	137.2	6.5
1902	35	33	14	17	0	30	8	246	67	77	164	3	284.7	2.12	1.135	5.19	2.43	87.9	130.7	5.2
1903	45	42	30	13	2	37	3	321	92	100	267	4	366.3	2.26	1.149	6.56	2.31	70.1	146.0	8.1
1904	48	46	33	12	1	33	4	306	83	78	212	7	367.7	2.03	1.044	5.19	2.10	76.6	134.7	7.5
1905	43	37	31	9	3	32	8	252	48	64	206	4	338.7	1.28	.933	5.47	2.10	70.2	234.2	11.3
1906	38	35	22	12	1	22	6	262	88	77	128	3	266.7	2.97	1.271	4.32	2.35	89.3	88.4	2.3
1907	41	36	24	12	2	31	8	250	70	53	178	5	315.0	2.00	.962	5.09	1.62	64.5	125.2	5.6
1908	56	44	37	11	5	34	11	281	62	42	259	5	390.7	1.43	.827	5.97	1.14	47.2	169.0	9.3
1909	37	33	25	6	2	26	8	192	35	36	149	2	275.3	1.14	.828	4.87	1.55	60.0	226.1	8.6
1910	38	35	27	9	0	27	2	292	67	60	184	5	318.3	1.89	1.106	5.20	2.02	67.7	157.6	8.1
1911	45	37	26	13	3	29	5	303	68	38	141	5	307.0	1.99	1.111	4.13	2.30	68.9	167.3	7.7
1912	43	34	23	12	4	27	0	311	73	34	134	6	310.0	2.12	1.113	3.89	2.48	73.3	159.9	7.9
1913	40	35	25	11	2	25	4	291	70	21	93	8	306.0	2.06	1.020	2.74	2.56	81.2	153.2	6.9
1914	41	35	24	13	2	29	5	314	104	23	80	16	312.0	3.00	1.080	2.31	2.65	98.8	89.5	2.4
1915	27	24	8	14	0	11	1	199	74	20	57	9	186.0	3.58	1.177	2.76	2.71	103.7	73.0	-0.3
1916	13	7	4	4	2	5	1	74	25	8	19	4	74.7	3.01	1.098	2.29	2.81	111.7	83.6	0.3

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

647

1,889

1,687

151

362

RBI

165

116

218

.2146

OBP

.2720

SLG

.2709

OPS

.5429

Pitching

G (P)

636

192nd-most career G (P)

552

30th-most career GS

373

3rd-most career W

188

57th-most career L

435

14th-most career CG

SHO

3rd-most career SHO

4,789

18th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,507

40th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

848

208th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.133

8th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0581

9th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.71

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
1910-04-16	SF @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	6
1905-05-23	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	1	5
1909-09-06	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	0	2	1	1	0	2	0	5
1902-05-01	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1903-06-30	STL @ SF Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1904-10-03	STL @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	1	3	16
1906-09-06	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	14
1903-05-12	CIN @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	4	1	13
1908-04-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	0	1	12
1903-07-15	SF @ PIT Gameday	14.0	10	3	4	11

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

Hall of Fame, 1936 (BBWAA)

2× Pitching Triple Crown

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