Ruben Mateo
Texas Rangers 1999–2001; Cincinnati Reds 2002–2003; Kansas City Royals 2004; Pittsburgh Pirates 2004
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 32 | 127 | 122 | 16 | 29 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 28 | 3 | 0 | .238 | .268 | .451 | .719 | 71.9 | 76.3 | .309 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 52 | 222 | 206 | 32 | 60 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 19 | 10 | 34 | 6 | 0 | .291 | .339 | .447 | .786 | 94.0 | 94.6 | .345 | 0.7 |
| 2001 | 40 | 147 | 129 | 18 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 28 | 1 | 0 | .248 | .322 | .341 | .663 | 73.0 | 71.5 | .301 | -0.2 |
| 2002 | 46 | 94 | 86 | 11 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .319 | .395 | .714 | 87.7 | 86.1 | .324 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 74 | 224 | 207 | 16 | 50 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 53 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .290 | .329 | .619 | 59.1 | 62.1 | .278 | -0.6 |
| 2004 | 51 | 137 | 126 | 13 | 26 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 26 | 1 | 1 | .206 | .270 | .357 | .627 | 59.1 | 62.7 | .276 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-06-12 | PIT @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 2001-05-11 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2000-05-12 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 2003-07-21 | MIL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1999-07-19 | SF @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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.