Matt Kata
Arizona Diamondbacks 2003–2005; Philadelphia Phillies 2005; Pittsburgh Pirates 2007; Texas Rangers 2007; Houston Astros 2009
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 78 | 322 | 288 | 42 | 74 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 25 | 53 | 3 | 2 | .257 | .315 | .420 | .736 | 84.8 | 85.4 | .326 | 0.6 |
| 2004 | 42 | 177 | 162 | 17 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 29 | 4 | 1 | .247 | .301 | .364 | .665 | 63.6 | 68.2 | .293 | -0.2 |
| 2005 | 40 | 44 | 37 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .189 | .286 | .297 | .583 | 51.7 | 51.9 | .273 | -0.1 |
| 2007 | 78 | 167 | 158 | 21 | 35 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 5 | 33 | 1 | 0 | .222 | .255 | .348 | .603 | 51.7 | 55.3 | .267 | -0.5 |
| 2009 | 40 | 52 | 50 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .212 | .220 | .432 | 4.1 | 15.8 | .196 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-06-30 | AZ @ COL Gameday | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2004-05-04 | AZ @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2007-04-13 | TEX @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2004-04-22 | AZ @ MIL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 2003-07-11 | SF @ AZ Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.