Matt Alexander
Chicago Cubs 1973–1974; Oakland Athletics 1975–1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1978–1981
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .533 | 59.4 | 47.4 | .281 | 0.0 |
| 1974 | 45 | 74 | 54 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 4 | .204 | .358 | .278 | .636 | 86.2 | 76.5 | .321 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 63 | 11 | 10 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 10 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .282 | -16.3 | -16.8 | .153 | -0.4 |
| 1976 | 61 | 30 | 30 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 7 | .033 | .033 | .033 | .067 | -101.7 | -80.0 | .031 | -0.9 |
| 1977 | 90 | 47 | 42 | 24 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 26 | 14 | .238 | .304 | .262 | .566 | 60.9 | 57.9 | .270 | -0.3 |
| 1978 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 44 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | .538 | .538 | .692 | 1.231 | 249.4 | 229.1 | .559 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 37 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 1.000 | 177.5 | 171.4 | .443 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | .364 | .364 | .364 | .727 | 106.5 | 104.2 | .342 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-02 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1974-05-18 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1979-06-17 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1974-05-17 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1974-05-22 | CHC @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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.