Mike Matheny
Milwaukee Brewers 1994–1998; Toronto Blue Jays 1999; St. Louis Cardinals 2000–2004; San Francisco Giants 2005–2006
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 28 | 59 | 53 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .226 | .293 | .340 | .633 | 61.7 | 60.6 | .289 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | 80 | 181 | 166 | 13 | 41 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 12 | 28 | 2 | 1 | .247 | .306 | .313 | .619 | 59.5 | 58.8 | .287 | 0.3 |
| 1996 | 106 | 341 | 313 | 31 | 64 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 46 | 14 | 80 | 3 | 2 | .204 | .243 | .342 | .584 | 39.5 | 44.1 | .257 | -0.6 |
| 1997 | 123 | 356 | 320 | 29 | 78 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 17 | 68 | 0 | 1 | .244 | .294 | .338 | .631 | 63.4 | 64.5 | .286 | 0.6 |
| 1998 | 108 | 341 | 320 | 24 | 76 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 27 | 11 | 63 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .278 | .334 | .612 | 57.7 | 60.3 | .277 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 57 | 179 | 163 | 16 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 37 | 0 | 0 | .215 | .271 | .307 | .578 | 45.6 | 47.2 | .263 | -0.2 |
| 2000 | 128 | 464 | 417 | 43 | 109 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 47 | 32 | 96 | 0 | 0 | .261 | .317 | .362 | .679 | 67.2 | 71.7 | .299 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 121 | 424 | 381 | 40 | 83 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 42 | 28 | 76 | 0 | 1 | .218 | .276 | .304 | .581 | 47.4 | 51.6 | .258 | -0.4 |
| 2002 | 110 | 363 | 315 | 31 | 77 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 35 | 32 | 49 | 1 | 3 | .244 | .313 | .317 | .630 | 65.1 | 69.2 | .285 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 141 | 498 | 441 | 43 | 111 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 47 | 44 | 81 | 1 | 1 | .252 | .320 | .356 | .676 | 72.1 | 79.8 | .294 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 122 | 419 | 385 | 28 | 95 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 50 | 23 | 83 | 0 | 2 | .247 | .292 | .348 | .640 | 60.3 | 66.8 | .279 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 134 | 485 | 443 | 42 | 107 | 34 | 0 | 13 | 59 | 29 | 91 | 0 | 2 | .242 | .295 | .406 | .701 | 73.6 | 81.6 | .301 | 1.1 |
| 2006 | 47 | 177 | 160 | 10 | 37 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .276 | .338 | .613 | 50.9 | 57.3 | .268 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-06-16 | STL @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1994-07-21 | MIN @ MIL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 1998-07-18 | MIL @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2000-09-12 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2000-04-06 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.