Rick Matula
Atlanta Braves 1979–1981
Percentile snapshot
1980 season — qualified pitchers
of 89 qualified 1980 pitchers (min 161 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 28 | 60 | 53 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .094 | .111 | .094 | .205 | -66.5 | -45.0 | .100 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 33 | 64 | 57 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .136 | .105 | .241 | -49.2 | -32.8 | .120 | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 28 | 28 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 193 | 79 | 64 | 67 | 14 | 171.3 | 4.15 | 1.500 | 3.52 | 4.15 | 103.7 | 96.3 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 33 | 30 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 195 | 90 | 60 | 62 | 17 | 176.7 | 4.58 | 1.443 | 3.16 | 4.31 | 115.4 | 81.6 | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7.0 | 6.43 | 1.429 | 0.00 | 5.38 | 150.2 | 55.8 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-09-15 | ATL @ SD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1980-08-11 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1979-04-13 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-06-18 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-09-23 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-06-24 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 1979-04-13 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 6.1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1980-07-05 | SD @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 1980-08-11 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 8.1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980-09-01 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 8.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 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.