MLB / Players

Jon Matlack

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornJanuary 19, 1950 · West Chester, PA, USA

MLB debutJuly 11, 1971

Final gameSeptember 15, 1983

Seasons13 (1971–1983)

New York Mets 1971–1977; Texas Rangers 1978–1983

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified pitchers

59.1

73.9

18.2

59.1

78.4

56.8

SHO

21.6

265

9.1

29.5

86.4

142

81.8

46.6

234.7

ERA

3.68

52.3

WHIP

1.334

48.9

K/9

5.45

77.3

FIP

3.10

94.3

FIP-

78.4

97.7

ERA+

107.5

59.1

sWAR

3.0

65.9

of 89 qualified 1980 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.3

81.2

sWAR

36.5

97.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1971	7	12	11	1	3	0	0	1	6	.273	.333	.273	.606	80.6	75.9	.296	0.1
1972	34	93	78	6	10	1	2	10	44	.128	.227	.141	.368	10.6	8.9	.196	5.6
1973	35	90	65	5	9	0	2	13	38	.138	.282	.138	.421	34.7	21.8	.233	3.8
1974	34	96	79	3	8	0	8	5	34	.101	.153	.101	.254	-34.1	-26.8	.134	5.9
1975	33	88	70	6	7	0	2	13	33	.100	.241	.100	.341	10.4	0.1	.199	2.5
1976	35	104	88	10	17	1	9	8	35	.193	.268	.205	.473	43.3	40.0	.240	4.1
1977	26	58	50	1	3	1	0	7	27	.060	.175	.080	.255	-23.2	-26.8	.147	0.6
1978	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	7.5
1979	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1980	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1981	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1982	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1983	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1971	7	6	0	3	0	0	0	31	17	15	24	2	37.0	4.14	1.243	5.84	3.16	93.2	82.1	0.1
1972	34	32	15	10	0	8	4	215	63	71	169	14	244.0	2.32	1.172	6.23	2.79	83.2	144.2	5.6
1973	34	34	14	16	0	14	3	210	86	99	205	16	242.0	3.20	1.277	7.62	2.97	82.5	112.5	3.8
1974	34	34	13	15	0	14	7	221	71	76	195	8	265.3	2.41	1.119	6.61	2.42	68.2	147.6	5.9
1975	33	32	16	12	0	8	3	224	86	58	154	15	228.7	3.38	1.233	6.06	2.90	83.5	102.5	2.5
1976	35	35	17	10	0	16	6	236	86	57	153	18	262.0	2.95	1.118	5.26	3.06	92.3	112.2	4.1
1977	26	26	7	15	0	5	3	175	79	43	123	19	169.0	4.21	1.290	6.55	3.54	94.5	89.0	0.6
1978	35	33	15	13	1	18	2	252	68	51	157	14	270.0	2.27	1.122	5.23	2.67	71.2	165.7	7.5
1979	13	13	5	4	0	2	0	98	39	15	35	9	85.0	4.13	1.329	3.71	3.88	93.0	101.1	0.9
1980	35	34	10	10	1	8	1	265	96	48	142	17	234.7	3.68	1.334	5.45	3.10	78.4	107.5	3.0
1981	17	16	4	7	0	1	1	101	48	41	43	8	104.3	4.14	1.361	3.71	3.92	111.3	85.1	0.2
1982	33	14	7	7	1	1	0	158	58	37	78	14	147.7	3.53	1.321	4.75	3.66	93.5	110.7	2.1
1983	25	9	2	4	0	2	0	90	38	27	38	7	73.3	4.66	1.595	4.66	4.26	106.5	85.7	0.2

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

362

541

441

RBI

217

.1293

OBP

.2300

SLG

.1361

OPS

.3661

Pitching

G (P)

361

318

300th-most career GS

125

407th-most career W

126

298th-most career L

434th-most career CG

SHO

111th-most career SHO

2,363

291st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,516

227th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

638

482nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.180

249th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2332

267th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.77

424th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	BB	TB
1976-09-27	WSH @ NYM Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	0	3
1976-05-16	NYM @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	2	1	3
1974-09-12	STL @ NYM Gameday	2	0	2	0	2	0	2
1975-08-29	NYM @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	0	2	0	2
1976-07-11	NYM @ ATL Gameday	3	0	2	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1974-05-08	SF @ NYM Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	0	12	1
1976-05-05	CIN @ NYM Gameday	9.2	6	0	0	2	11	0
1973-08-03	STL @ NYM Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	3	11	1
1974-07-04	PHI @ NYM Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	2	10	0
1974-09-03	NYM @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	10	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

1× Rookie of the Year1× All-Star Game MVP3× 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.