MLB / Players

Matt Clement

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 12, 1974 · McCandless, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1998

Final gameJune 14, 2006

Seasons9 (1998–2006)

San Diego Padres 1998–2000; Florida Marlins 2001; Chicago Cubs 2002–2004; Boston Red Sox 2005–2006

Percentile snapshot

2005 season — qualified pitchers

32.6

39.1

44.6

95.7

23.9

SHO

192

68.5

28.3

19.6

146

57.6

78.3

191.0

34.8

ERA

4.57

19.6

WHIP

1.361

33.7

K/9

6.88

70.7

FIP

4.07

53.3

FIP-

91.2

60.9

ERA+

97.6

28.3

sWAR

1.7

30.4

of 93 qualified 2005 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.8

21.5

sWAR

10.2

87.2

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1998	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.4	-100.0	.000	0.0
1999	31	62	52	7	4	0	0	1	4	28	.077	.143	.077	.220	-42.4	-40.0	.117	1.2
2000	34	69	60	3	4	0	1	2	4	33	.067	.125	.100	.225	-44.2	-40.0	.114	0.1
2001	32	61	50	2	4	0	0	0	3	18	.080	.132	.080	.212	-49.6	-42.1	.109	-0.1
2002	32	75	61	4	3	2	0	4	1	34	.049	.108	.082	.190	-60.7	-48.2	.099	2.6
2003	32	71	62	3	9	2	0	3	0	26	.145	.159	.177	.336	-26.0	-12.2	.152	2.4
2004	30	61	55	2	8	1	0	2	1	29	.145	.158	.164	.322	-30.8	-16.1	.146	3.0
2005	32	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	-2.2	-25.3	.182	1.7
2006	12	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	69.9	71.7	.298	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1998	4	2	2	0	0	0	15	7	7	13	0	13.7	4.61	1.610	8.56	2.70	67.7	86.6	0.0
1999	31	31	10	12	0	0	190	90	86	135	18	180.7	4.48	1.528	6.73	4.45	104.3	95.2	1.2
2000	34	34	13	17	0	0	194	117	125	170	22	205.0	5.14	1.556	7.46	4.86	111.8	84.6	0.1
2001	31	31	9	10	0	0	172	95	85	134	15	169.3	5.05	1.518	7.12	4.35	102.7	83.8	-0.1
2002	32	32	12	11	3	2	162	82	85	215	18	205.0	3.60	1.205	9.44	3.25	81.5	110.9	2.6
2003	32	32	14	12	2	1	169	92	79	171	22	201.7	4.11	1.230	7.63	4.08	95.1	104.5	2.4
2004	30	30	9	13	0	0	155	74	77	190	23	181.0	3.68	1.282	9.45	3.98	92.6	116.9	3.0
2005	32	32	13	6	1	0	192	97	68	146	18	191.0	4.57	1.361	6.88	4.07	91.2	97.6	1.7
2006	12	12	5	5	0	0	77	48	38	43	8	65.3	6.61	1.760	5.92	5.49	116.9	71.0	-0.7

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

239

410

348

RBI

174

.0948

OBP

.1390

SLG

.1149

OPS

.2539

Pitching

G (P)

238

236

SHO

1,413

SO (P)

1,217

382nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

650

468th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.472

WHIP

1.3988

K/9

7.75

120th-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	3B	RBI	TB
2003-05-22	CHC @ PIT Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	0	3
2000-04-27	SD @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	3
2003-07-07	MIA @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	2	2
2002-07-13	MIA @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	1	2
2002-05-23	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2004-04-25	NYM @ CHC Gameday	8.0	2	1	1	2	13	1
2004-08-18	CHC @ MIL Gameday	7.0	5	3	3	1	13	1
2002-06-30	CHC @ CWS Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	2	12	0
2002-04-13	CHC @ PIT Gameday	7.0	5	3	3	0	12	1
2002-04-19	CIN @ CHC Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	1	12	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× 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.