Matt Williams

1987–2003 · 17 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1965

More than one Major Leaguer has this name. This page is the Matt Williams who played 1987–2003. The others:

Matt Williams, 1983–1985 2 seasons
Matt Williams, 2000 1 season

JavaScript is switched off, so the extra columns cannot be unfolded. Every season below is already on the page and every number in it is real.

17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1987	San Francisco Giants	NL	84	266	245	28	46	9	2	8	21	16	68	4	.188	.240	.339	.578	0.1
1988	San Francisco Giants	NL	52	170	156	17	32	6	1	8	19	8	41	0	.205	.251	.410	.662	0.8
1989	San Francisco Giants	NL	84	311	292	31	59	18	1	18	50	14	72	1	.202	.242	.455	.697	1.6
1990SS	San Francisco Giants	NL	159	664	617	87	171	27	2	33	122	33	138	7	.277	.319	.488	.807	5.1
1991GG	San Francisco Giants	NL	157	635	589	72	158	24	5	34	98	33	128	5	.268	.310	.499	.809	4.7
1992	San Francisco Giants	NL	146	576	529	58	120	13	5	20	66	39	109	7	.227	.286	.384	.670	1.5
1993GGSS	San Francisco Giants	NL	145	619	579	105	170	33	4	38	110	27	80	1	.294	.325	.561	.886	5.0
1994GGSS	San Francisco Giants	NL	112	483	445	74	119	16	3	43	96	33	87	1	.267	.319	.607	.926	4.6
1995	San Francisco Giants	NL	76	318	283	53	95	17	1	23	65	30	58	2	.336	.399	.647	1.046	4.7
1996	San Francisco Giants	NL	105	455	404	69	122	16	1	22	85	39	91	1	.302	.367	.510	.877	3.3
1997GGSS	Cleveland Indians	AL	151	636	596	86	157	32	3	32	105	34	108	12	.263	.307	.488	.795	2.8
1998	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	135	557	510	72	136	26	1	20	71	43	102	5	.267	.327	.439	.766	2.9
1999	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	154	678	627	98	190	37	2	35	142	41	93	2	.303	.344	.536	.880	4.4
2000	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	96	397	371	43	102	18	2	12	47	20	51	1	.275	.315	.431	.746	0.6
2001	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	106	436	408	58	112	30	0	16	65	22	70	1	.275	.314	.466	.780	1.1
2002	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	60	238	215	29	56	7	2	12	40	21	41	3	.260	.324	.479	.803	0.7
2003	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	44	156	134	17	33	9	0	4	16	16	26	0	.246	.327	.403	.730	0.2
Career	17 seasons		1866	7595	7000	997	1878	338	35	378	1218	469	1363	53	.268	.319	.489	.808	44.1

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League), AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.