Fran Matthews
Newark Eagles 1938; Newark Eagles 1940–1942; Newark Eagles 1945
Percentile snapshot
1941 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 114 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 15 | 26 | 25 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .360 | .385 | .480 | .865 | 121.1 | 127.0 | .392 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 36 | 152 | 128 | 34 | 41 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .320 | .416 | .477 | .893 | 128.1 | 131.9 | .416 | 0.9 |
| 1941 | 56 | 251 | 219 | 43 | 51 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 28 | 4 | 5 | 0 | .233 | .323 | .342 | .665 | 89.3 | 86.5 | .316 | 0.1 |
| 1942 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .214 | .308 | .522 | 50.4 | 48.0 | .248 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 12 | 52 | 46 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .239 | .314 | .348 | .662 | 86.8 | 85.2 | .318 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-05-13 | NYC @ NE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1945-05-30 | PHS @ NE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1941-08-22 | NE @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 1945-06-01 | NYC @ NE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1941-05-15 | NYC @ NE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | NE @ TIC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-17 | TIC @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-19 | TIC @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-25 | BEG @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-25 | BEG @ NE 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.