Matt Batts
Boston Red Sox 1947–1951; St. Louis Browns 1951; Detroit Tigers 1952–1953; Chicago White Sox 1954; Detroit Tigers 1954; Cincinnati Redlegs 1955–1956
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 7 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .529 | .750 | 1.279 | 257.9 | 244.3 | .579 | 0.4 |
| 1948 | 46 | 137 | 118 | 13 | 37 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .314 | .391 | .441 | .832 | 118.4 | 117.4 | .392 | 1.1 |
| 1949 | 60 | 183 | 157 | 23 | 38 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 25 | 22 | 1 | 0 | .242 | .350 | .369 | .719 | 85.1 | 85.1 | .348 | 0.7 |
| 1950 | 75 | 258 | 238 | 27 | 65 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 34 | 18 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .327 | .412 | .739 | 75.8 | 80.8 | .340 | 0.6 |
| 1951 | 90 | 304 | 277 | 27 | 79 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 33 | 22 | 23 | 2 | 0 | .285 | .338 | .412 | .749 | 93.9 | 97.2 | .347 | 1.4 |
| 1952 | 56 | 190 | 173 | 11 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 22 | 1 | 0 | .237 | .298 | .324 | .622 | 66.3 | 70.7 | .295 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 116 | 399 | 374 | 38 | 104 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 43 | 24 | 36 | 2 | 3 | .278 | .322 | .406 | .728 | 90.8 | 94.4 | .334 | 1.7 |
| 1954 | 67 | 203 | 179 | 17 | 42 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .235 | .303 | .341 | .644 | 73.1 | 76.9 | .303 | 0.5 |
| 1955 | 26 | 78 | 71 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .286 | .338 | .624 | 57.8 | 61.8 | .280 | 0.0 |
| 1956 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 35.6 | -1.8 | .245 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-08-08 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1954-09-06 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1950-08-12 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-07-18 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 1947-09-11 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-20 | BOS @ MIN 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.