MLB / Players

Matt Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornNovember 28, 1965 · Bishop, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1987

Final gameMay 31, 2003

Seasons17 (1987–2003)

San Francisco Giants 1987–1996; Cleveland Indians 1997; Arizona Diamondbacks 1998–2003

Percentile snapshot

1999 season — qualified batters

154

70.7

678

77.7

627

93.6

60.5

190

89.2

78.3

31.8

85.4

RBI

142

98.1

17.2

45.9

12.1

92.4

.303

70.7

OBP

.344

31.2

SLG

.536

75.8

OPS

.880

65.6

wRC+

114.0

54.8

OPS+

118.2

61.8

wOBA

.374

57.3

sWAR

3.7

70.1

of 158 qualified 1999 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.4

60.4

OPS+

112.8

68.1

sWAR

37.4

97.6

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
1987	84	266	245	28	46	9	2	8	21	16	68	4	3	.188	.240	.339	.578	48.0	55.0	.253	-0.5
1988	52	170	156	17	32	6	1	8	19	8	41	0	1	.205	.251	.410	.662	89.6	91.6	.300	0.5
1989	84	311	292	31	59	18	1	18	50	14	72	1	2	.202	.242	.455	.697	94.3	98.3	.310	1.1
1990	159	664	617	87	171	27	2	33	122	33	138	7	4	.277	.319	.488	.807	119.5	122.6	.355	4.1
1991	157	635	589	72	158	24	5	34	98	33	128	5	5	.268	.310	.499	.809	123.8	127.5	.356	4.3
1992	146	576	529	58	120	13	5	20	66	39	109	7	7	.227	.286	.384	.670	87.0	93.1	.301	1.3
1993	145	619	579	105	170	33	4	38	110	27	80	1	3	.294	.325	.561	.886	133.1	136.7	.381	4.9
1994	112	483	445	74	119	16	3	43	96	33	87	1	0	.267	.319	.607	.926	135.1	140.0	.388	3.9
1995	76	318	283	53	95	17	1	23	65	30	58	2	0	.336	.399	.647	1.046	169.4	173.8	.443	3.9
1996	105	455	404	69	122	16	1	22	85	39	91	1	2	.302	.367	.510	.877	128.1	131.7	.379	3.1
1997	151	636	596	86	157	32	3	32	105	34	108	12	4	.263	.307	.488	.795	98.9	101.9	.342	2.3
1998	135	557	510	72	136	26	1	20	71	43	102	5	1	.267	.327	.439	.766	97.2	100.1	.335	1.9
1999	154	678	627	98	190	37	2	35	142	41	93	2	0	.303	.344	.536	.880	114.0	118.2	.374	3.7
2000	96	397	371	43	102	18	2	12	47	20	51	1	2	.275	.315	.431	.746	83.2	85.1	.326	0.6
2001	106	436	408	58	112	30	0	16	65	22	70	1	0	.275	.314	.466	.780	92.1	94.2	.334	1.2
2002	60	238	215	29	56	7	2	12	40	21	41	3	1	.260	.324	.479	.803	101.8	102.2	.352	0.9
2003	44	156	134	17	33	9	0	4	16	16	26	0	0	.246	.327	.403	.730	82.9	84.8	.323	0.3

Career totals

1,866

354th-most career G

7,595

354th-most career PA

7,000

314th-most career AB

997

359th-most career R

1,878

363rd-most career H

338

353rd-most career 2B

378

77th-most career HR

RBI

1,218

150th-most career RBI

469

1,363

136th-most career SO

.2683

OBP

.3166

SLG

.4886

171st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8052

452nd-highest career OPS

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1997-04-25	CLE @ MIL Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	4	0	12
1991-07-14	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	4	1	11
1997-06-28	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	6	0	10
1993-04-18	ATL @ SF Gameday	6	4	4	0	2	3	0	10
1995-05-12	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	3	0	10

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

4× Silver Slugger4× Gold Glove5× 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.