Eddie Mathews

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 13, 1931 · Texarkana, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1952

Final gameSeptember 27, 1968

Seasons17 (1952–1968)

Boston Braves 1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966; Detroit Tigers 1967; Houston Astros 1967; Detroit Tigers 1968

Percentile snapshot

1967 season — qualified batters

137

17.3

511

436

17.3

103

8.2

16.3

59.2

RBI

45.9

74.5

35.7

23.5

43.9

.236

12.2

OBP

.333

55.1

SLG

.392

42.9

OPS

.725

46.9

wRC+

109.0

OPS+

110.2

wOBA

.330

44.9

sWAR

1.5

19.4

of 99 qualified 1967 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

145.7

97.7

OPS+

144.6

97.1

sWAR

92.4

99.9

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
1952	145	593	528	80	128	23	5	25	58	59	115	6	4	.242	.320	.447	.767	113.2	115.5	.347	3.2
1953	157	681	579	110	175	31	8	47	135	99	83	1	3	.302	.406	.627	1.033	170.1	173.7	.442	8.5
1954	138	601	476	96	138	21	4	40	103	113	61	10	3	.290	.423	.603	1.026	174.8	175.3	.444	7.7
1955	141	616	499	108	144	23	5	41	101	109	98	3	4	.289	.413	.601	1.014	168.1	174.1	.430	7.4
1956	151	651	552	103	150	21	2	37	95	91	86	6	0	.272	.373	.518	.892	143.0	145.2	.384	5.8
1957	148	666	572	109	167	28	9	32	94	90	79	3	1	.292	.387	.540	.927	158.6	157.0	.406	7.3
1958	149	649	546	97	137	18	1	31	77	85	85	5	0	.251	.349	.458	.807	122.5	122.2	.358	4.2
1959	148	682	594	118	182	16	8	46	114	80	71	2	1	.306	.390	.593	.983	170.1	169.3	.428	8.6
1960	153	671	548	108	152	19	7	39	124	111	113	7	3	.277	.397	.551	.948	168.8	166.9	.419	8.2
1961	152	672	572	103	175	23	6	32	91	93	95	12	7	.306	.402	.535	.937	156.3	154.3	.413	7.3
1962	152	643	536	106	142	25	6	29	90	101	90	4	2	.265	.381	.496	.877	138.8	138.1	.391	5.5
1963	158	675	547	82	144	27	4	23	84	124	119	3	4	.263	.399	.453	.852	152.2	146.8	.386	6.5
1964	141	590	502	83	117	19	1	23	74	85	100	2	2	.233	.344	.412	.756	116.5	112.0	.345	3.4
1965	156	626	546	77	137	23	0	32	95	73	110	1	0	.251	.341	.469	.810	127.5	126.0	.361	4.5
1966	134	517	452	72	113	21	4	16	53	63	82	1	1	.250	.341	.420	.761	111.8	109.0	.343	2.7
1967	137	511	436	53	103	16	2	16	57	63	88	2	4	.236	.333	.392	.725	109.0	110.2	.330	1.5
1968	31	57	52	4	11	0	0	3	8	5	12	0	0	.212	.281	.385	.665	94.7	99.0	.302	0.1

Career totals

2,391

91st-most career G

10,101

79th-most career PA

8,537

106th-most career AB

1,509

70th-most career R

2,315

152nd-most career H

354

306th-most career 2B

362nd-most career 3B

512

23rd-most career HR

RBI

1,453

62nd-most career RBI

1,444

24th-most career BB

1,487

88th-most career SO

.2712

OBP

.3761

222nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5094

93rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8855

94th-highest career OPS

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
1952-09-27	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	4	0	12
1953-06-30	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	2	4	0	11
1961-06-08	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	2	3	1	11
1962-09-23	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	1	1	0	11
1954-07-05	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-05-04	ATL @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-13	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-30	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-07-16	ATL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-07-19	ATL @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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

Hall of Fame, 1978 (BBWAA)

9× 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.