Kazuo Matsui
New York Mets 2004–2005; Colorado Rockies 2006; New York Mets 2006; Colorado Rockies 2007; Houston Astros 2008–2010
Percentile snapshot
2009 season — qualified batters
of 155 qualified 2009 batters (min 502 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 114 | 509 | 460 | 65 | 125 | 32 | 2 | 7 | 44 | 40 | 97 | 14 | 3 | .272 | .331 | .396 | .727 | 88.8 | 89.0 | .322 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 87 | 295 | 267 | 31 | 68 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 43 | 6 | 1 | .255 | .300 | .352 | .652 | 69.8 | 72.7 | .292 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 70 | 265 | 243 | 32 | 65 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 46 | 10 | 1 | .267 | .310 | .379 | .689 | 72.7 | 74.3 | .305 | 0.1 |
| 2007 | 104 | 453 | 410 | 84 | 118 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 37 | 34 | 69 | 32 | 4 | .288 | .342 | .405 | .746 | 88.9 | 87.6 | .334 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 96 | 422 | 375 | 58 | 110 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 33 | 37 | 53 | 20 | 5 | .293 | .354 | .427 | .781 | 109.1 | 106.3 | .350 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 132 | 533 | 476 | 56 | 119 | 20 | 2 | 9 | 46 | 34 | 85 | 19 | 3 | .250 | .302 | .357 | .659 | 73.4 | 75.6 | .297 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 27 | 78 | 71 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 1 | .141 | .197 | .155 | .352 | -8.7 | -2.4 | .173 | -0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-10-04 | COL @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 2004-04-06 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 2004-07-02 | NYY @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2008-08-08 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2008-08-02 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
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.