Matty Alou

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 22, 1938 · Bajos de Haina, San Cristóbal, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1960

Final gameJune 21, 1974

Seasons15 (1960–1974)

San Francisco Giants 1960–1965; Pittsburgh Pirates 1966–1970; St. Louis Cardinals 1971; Oakland Athletics 1972; St. Louis Cardinals 1972; New York Yankees 1973; St. Louis Cardinals 1973; San Diego Padres 1974

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

134

5.3

550

12.3

508

22.8

18.4

150

51.8

39.5

9.6

7.9

RBI

1.8

11.4

89.5

42.1

66.7

.295

80.7

OBP

.338

46.5

SLG

.354

20.2

OPS

.693

23.7

wRC+

100.6

33.3

OPS+

99.5

34.2

wOBA

.324

28.1

sWAR

1.1

16.7

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.8

55.4

OPS+

105.9

54.1

sWAR

23.9

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
1960	4	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	88.9	89.4	.305	0.0
1961	81	217	200	38	62	7	2	6	24	15	18	3	2	.310	.356	.455	.811	118.6	118.4	.359	1.0
1962	78	213	195	28	57	8	1	3	14	14	17	3	1	.292	.349	.390	.739	103.9	100.7	.340	0.6
1963	63	80	76	4	11	1	0	0	2	2	13	0	1	.145	.177	.158	.335	-11.5	-1.6	.161	-0.9
1964	110	267	250	28	66	4	2	1	14	11	25	5	3	.264	.302	.308	.610	69.1	72.2	.278	-0.5
1965	117	351	324	37	75	12	2	2	18	17	28	10	2	.231	.274	.299	.573	58.4	61.2	.264	-1.0
1966	141	578	535	86	183	18	9	2	27	24	44	23	15	.342	.373	.421	.793	124.0	121.0	.357	3.9
1967	139	584	550	87	186	21	7	2	28	24	42	16	10	.338	.372	.413	.785	130.8	124.4	.364	4.4
1968	146	598	558	59	185	28	4	0	52	27	26	18	10	.332	.362	.396	.758	133.4	129.5	.353	4.7
1969	162	746	698	105	231	41	6	1	48	42	35	22	8	.331	.369	.411	.780	122.9	122.1	.359	4.9
1970	155	718	677	97	201	21	8	1	47	30	18	19	11	.297	.329	.356	.685	87.5	87.2	.316	1.5
1971	149	660	609	85	192	28	6	7	74	34	27	19	10	.315	.352	.415	.767	115.9	113.7	.353	3.0
1972	140	567	525	57	161	22	2	4	47	35	35	13	5	.307	.350	.379	.729	115.5	112.8	.340	1.9
1973	134	550	508	60	150	22	1	2	29	31	43	5	2	.295	.338	.354	.693	100.6	99.5	.324	1.1
1974	48	88	81	8	16	3	0	0	3	5	6	0	0	.198	.241	.235	.476	28.4	35.7	.225	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1965	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	3	0	2.0	0.00	2.000	13.50	1.14	31.8	—	-1.0

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

1,667

6,220

5,789

780

1,777

424th-most career H

236

RBI

427

311

377

156

.3070

144th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3445

SLG

.3811

OPS

.7256

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

13.50

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
1973-04-28	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
1969-09-19	PIT @ NYM Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	0	3	1	7
1971-08-15	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	3	0	7
1971-09-24	WSH @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	3	0	7
1972-07-09	HOU @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	BB	SO
1965-08-26	SF @ PIT Gameday	2.0	3	1	3
1966-04-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1966-05-17	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1966-05-18	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1966-05-31	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	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

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.