Matt Lawton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornNovember 30, 1971 · Gulfport, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1995

Final gameMay 16, 2006

Seasons12 (1995–2006)

Minnesota Twins 1995–2001; New York Mets 2001; Cleveland Indians 2002–2004; Chicago Cubs 2005; New York Yankees 2005; Pittsburgh Pirates 2005; Seattle Mariners 2006

Percentile snapshot

2005 season — qualified batters

141

585

36.5

500

24.3

20.3

127

16.9

35.1

11.5

29.1

RBI

7.4

76.4

70.3

84.5

9.5

.254

12.2

OBP

.356

60.8

SLG

.396

18.9

OPS

.752

29.7

wRC+

103.6

38.5

OPS+

98.7

30.4

wOBA

.343

41.2

sWAR

1.5

of 149 qualified 2005 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.4

56.3

OPS+

104.2

sWAR

17.8

92.5

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
1995	21	70	60	11	19	4	1	1	12	7	11	1	1	.317	.414	.467	.881	134.2	128.1	.400	0.5
1996	79	286	252	34	65	7	1	6	42	28	28	4	4	.258	.339	.365	.704	79.4	77.0	.321	0.0
1997	142	548	460	74	114	29	3	14	60	76	81	7	4	.248	.366	.415	.781	107.2	102.7	.354	1.8
1998	152	662	557	91	155	36	6	21	77	86	64	16	8	.278	.387	.478	.864	124.6	122.6	.380	3.8
1999	118	476	406	58	105	18	0	7	54	57	42	26	4	.259	.353	.355	.708	79.5	79.5	.320	-0.2
2000	156	664	561	84	171	44	2	13	88	91	63	23	7	.305	.405	.460	.865	118.4	116.1	.384	2.9
2001	151	657	559	95	155	36	1	13	64	85	80	29	8	.277	.382	.415	.797	114.4	110.2	.357	2.6
2002	114	484	416	71	98	19	2	15	57	59	34	8	9	.236	.342	.399	.741	102.3	97.5	.334	1.2
2003	99	429	374	57	93	19	0	15	53	47	47	10	3	.249	.343	.420	.762	106.0	102.3	.341	1.2
2004	150	680	591	109	164	25	0	20	70	74	84	23	9	.277	.366	.421	.787	112.1	109.3	.351	2.6
2005	141	585	500	67	127	30	1	13	53	69	77	18	9	.254	.356	.396	.752	103.6	98.7	.343	1.5
2006	11	29	27	5	7	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	.259	.310	.259	.570	54.5	52.5	.266	-0.1

Career totals

1,334

5,570

4,763

756

1,273

267

138

RBI

631

681

405th-most career BB

613

165

498th-most career SB

.2673

OBP

.3678

330th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4174

OPS

.7852

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2000-06-30	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	3	1	10
1997-09-17	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	1	9
2001-07-03	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1996-08-30	MIN @ MIL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	3	0	8
1999-05-17	MIN @ SEA Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	0	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

2× 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.