T. J. Mathews

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 9, 1970 · Belleville, IL, USA

MLB debutJuly 28, 1995

Final gameJuly 24, 2002

Seasons8 (1995–2002)

St. Louis Cardinals 1995–1996; Oakland Athletics 1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1997; Oakland Athletics 1998–2001; St. Louis Cardinals 2001; Houston Astros 2002

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

7.3

83.3

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	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1995	23	2	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.0	-100.0	.000	1.1
1996	67	4	4	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.7	-100.0	.000	1.9
1997	64	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.7	-100.0	.000	1.8
1998	66	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1999	50	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
2000	50	1	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	345.7	—	.737	-0.1
2001	30	3	3	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.3	-100.0	.000	0.4
2002	12	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.7	-100.0	.000	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1995	23	1	1	2	21	5	11	28	1	29.7	1.52	1.079	8.49	2.73	65.5	274.8	1.1
1996	67	2	6	6	62	28	32	80	8	83.7	3.01	1.124	8.61	3.64	87.3	138.5	1.9
1997	64	10	6	3	75	25	30	70	9	74.7	3.01	1.406	8.44	4.08	94.0	143.0	1.8
1998	66	7	4	1	71	37	29	53	6	72.7	4.58	1.376	6.56	4.20	91.8	99.8	0.7
1999	50	9	5	3	46	25	20	42	9	59.0	3.81	1.119	6.41	4.88	103.8	123.3	1.1
2000	50	2	3	0	73	40	25	42	10	59.7	6.03	1.642	6.34	5.35	111.4	79.6	-0.1
2001	30	1	1	1	39	18	12	29	4	37.7	4.30	1.354	6.93	3.86	88.1	101.8	0.4
2002	12	0	0	0	19	7	5	13	2	18.3	3.44	1.309	6.38	3.70	86.6	124.1	0.3

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

362

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0833

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0833

Pitching

G (P)

362

SHO

435

SO (P)

357

BB allowed

164

ERA

3.825

WHIP

1.3093

K/9

7.38

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
1995-07-28	STL @ MIA Gameday	0
1995-08-01	HOU @ STL Gameday	1
1995-08-06	CHC @ STL Gameday	0
1995-08-09	STL @ LAD Gameday	0
1995-08-10	STL @ LAD Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2001-09-09	LAD @ STL Gameday	4.1	0	0	0	0	5	0
1995-08-25	STL @ COL Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	0	5	0
2000-07-22	LAA @ ATH Gameday	3.0	3	2	2	0	4	1
1998-08-15	ATH @ DET Gameday	2.2	2	1	1	1	4	0
1996-05-24	STL @ MIA Gameday	2.1	0	0	0	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.