Leroy Matlock
St. Louis Stars 1929–1931; Homestead Grays 1932; Washington Pilots 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1933–1938
Percentile snapshot
1932 season — qualified batters
of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 105 PA)
1936 season — qualified pitchers
of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 78 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 21 | 38 | 34 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .265 | .286 | .471 | .756 | 89.2 | 93.8 | .333 | 0.9 |
| 1930 | 17 | 41 | 35 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .325 | .257 | .582 | 67.9 | 56.9 | .287 | 0.9 |
| 1931 | 10 | 25 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 89.8 | 85.9 | .328 | 0.3 |
| 1932 | 36 | 122 | 112 | 14 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .282 | .259 | .541 | 53.1 | 49.7 | .264 | 1.2 |
| 1933 | 22 | 65 | 55 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .145 | .203 | .182 | .385 | 17.9 | 6.3 | .187 | 3.2 |
| 1934 | 10 | 32 | 27 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .481 | .781 | 109.9 | 117.0 | .358 | 1.2 |
| 1935 | 12 | 30 | 26 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .308 | .357 | .385 | .742 | 89.3 | 87.2 | .342 | 3.2 |
| 1936 | 20 | 50 | 41 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .195 | .283 | .244 | .527 | 46.2 | 35.6 | .260 | 2.4 |
| 1937 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .400 | .000 | .400 | 71.4 | 13.0 | .299 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 10 | 26 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .280 | .143 | .423 | 38.1 | 14.7 | .231 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 77 | 34 | 16 | 27 | 8 | 67.3 | 4.54 | 1.381 | 3.61 | 5.15 | 114.0 | 99.4 | 0.9 |
| 1930 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 95 | 47 | 34 | 30 | 9 | 91.3 | 4.63 | 1.412 | 2.96 | 5.61 | 123.1 | 98.4 | 0.9 |
| 1931 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 28 | 25 | 33 | 0 | 50.7 | 4.97 | 1.599 | 5.86 | 3.63 | 86.1 | 84.7 | 0.3 |
| 1932 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 106 | 42 | 32 | 57 | 4 | 103.0 | 3.67 | 1.340 | 4.98 | 3.94 | 94.4 | 113.8 | 1.2 |
| 1933 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 140 | 53 | 36 | 104 | 4 | 154.0 | 3.10 | 1.143 | 6.08 | 3.56 | 82.5 | 139.2 | 3.2 |
| 1934 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 63 | 31 | 24 | 39 | 1 | 67.0 | 4.16 | 1.299 | 5.24 | 4.22 | 93.5 | 108.4 | 1.2 |
| 1935 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 58 | 12 | 13 | 38 | 2 | 71.0 | 1.52 | 1.000 | 4.82 | 3.90 | 76.4 | 335.2 | 3.2 |
| 1936 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 124 | 50 | 27 | 44 | 7 | 114.0 | 3.95 | 1.325 | 3.47 | 4.78 | 93.6 | 129.4 | 2.4 |
| 1937 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 14.7 | 6.14 | 1.295 | 2.45 | 5.39 | 108.1 | 81.3 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 60 | 34 | 18 | 23 | 4 | 47.0 | 6.51 | 1.660 | 4.40 | 5.24 | 103.7 | 77.6 | -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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-08-18 | PHS @ TIC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1934-08-04 | TIC @ PBG Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1932-05-07 | CLS @ HOM Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1930-05-29 | BBB @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1933-08-21 | AKR @ TIC Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-07-24 | CAG @ TIC Gameday | 15.0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 2 |
| 1933-07-30 | TIC @ AKR Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 1933-08-21 | AKR @ TIC Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| 1935-06-23 | TIC @ NYC Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 1934-06-09 | CRS @ TIC Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.