Matt Joyce

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 194 lb

BornAugust 3, 1984 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutMay 5, 2008

Final gameSeptember 23, 2021

Seasons14 (2008–2021)

Detroit Tigers 2008; Tampa Bay Rays 2009–2014; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2015; Pittsburgh Pirates 2016; Oakland Athletics 2017–2018; Atlanta Braves 2019; Miami Marlins 2020; Philadelphia Phillies 2021

Percentile snapshot

2017 season — qualified batters

141

28.7

544

21.7

469

9.8

46.9

114

6.3

67.8

59.4

RBI

36.4

69.9

113

34.3

.243

13.3

OBP

.335

45.5

SLG

.473

58.7

OPS

.808

56.6

wRC+

117.4

62.2

OPS+

116.8

60.8

wOBA

.345

53.8

sWAR

2.4

45.5

of 144 qualified 2017 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.7

66.9

OPS+

111.2

64.7

sWAR

14.9

90.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2008	92	277	242	40	61	16	3	12	33	31	65	0	2	.252	.339	.492	.831	117.2	116.1	.365	1.1
2009	11	37	32	3	6	1	0	3	7	3	7	1	0	.188	.270	.500	.770	94.6	100.3	.323	0.1
2010	77	261	216	30	52	15	3	10	40	40	55	2	2	.241	.360	.477	.837	133.5	132.8	.369	1.5
2011	141	522	462	69	128	32	2	19	75	49	106	13	1	.277	.347	.478	.825	128.2	132.3	.354	2.8
2012	124	462	399	55	96	18	3	17	59	55	102	4	3	.241	.341	.429	.769	117.3	115.9	.338	1.9
2013	140	481	413	61	97	22	0	18	47	59	87	7	3	.235	.328	.419	.747	110.6	108.4	.332	1.4
2014	140	493	418	51	106	23	2	9	52	62	111	2	5	.254	.349	.383	.732	111.6	109.5	.331	1.5
2015	93	284	247	17	43	12	1	5	21	30	67	0	3	.174	.272	.291	.564	60.4	59.3	.257	-0.9
2016	140	293	231	45	56	10	1	13	42	59	67	1	1	.242	.403	.463	.866	138.1	132.4	.383	1.9
2017	141	544	469	78	114	33	0	25	68	66	113	4	1	.243	.335	.473	.808	117.4	116.8	.345	2.4
2018	83	246	207	34	43	9	0	7	15	35	53	0	2	.208	.322	.353	.675	90.2	88.2	.301	0.2
2019	129	238	200	32	59	10	0	7	23	38	45	0	0	.295	.408	.450	.858	128.9	122.0	.377	1.4
2020	46	148	127	16	32	4	0	2	14	20	41	1	0	.252	.351	.331	.682	93.0	87.6	.313	0.1
2021	43	69	55	6	5	1	0	2	7	12	16	0	0	.091	.261	.218	.479	30.5	32.2	.223	-0.5

Career totals

1,400

4,355

3,718

537

898

206

149

RBI

503

559

935

466th-most career SO

.2415

OBP

.3421

SLG

.4252

OPS

.7673

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	TB
2014-06-29	TB @ BAL Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	2	4	12
2008-07-21	DET @ KC Gameday	6	3	4	0	1	1	5	9
2013-05-18	TB @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	5	8
2012-04-18	TB @ TOR Gameday	5	3	3	2	0	1	1	8
2008-08-19	DET @ TEX Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	8

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.