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Hideki Matsui

Hideki Matsui (Godzilla)

Positions: Leftfielder and Designated Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: June 12, 1974 in Ishikawa, Japan
High School: Seiryo (Kanazawa City, JP)
Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees in 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: March 31, 2003
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Angels/Athletics 2003-2011
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent, 1 yr/$4.25M (11) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 9.000, Free Agent: 2012 [*], Agents: Arn Tellem [*]
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #650. Doug Rader… #651. John Roseboro… #652. Bobby Higginson… #653. HIDEKI MATSUI… #654. Mike Scioscia… #655. Roy Smalley… #656. Tommy McCarthy…

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #650. Doug Rader… #651. John Roseboro… #652. Bobby Higginson… #653. HIDEKI MATSUI… #654. Mike Scioscia… #655. Roy Smalley… #656. Tommy McCarthy…

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
2003	29	NYY	AL	*163*	695	623	82	179	42	1	16	106	2	2	63	86	.287	.353	.435	.788	109	271	25	3	0	6	5	*78/D	AS,RoY-2
2004	30	NYY	AL	*162*	680	584	109	174	34	2	31	108	3	0	88	103	.298	.390	.522	.912	137	305	11	3	0	5	2	*7/8	AS,MVP-24
2005	31	NYY	AL	*162*	703	629	108	192	45	3	23	116	2	2	63	78	.305	.367	.496	.863	130	312	16	3	0	8	7	*78D/9	MVP-14
2006	32	NYY	AL	51	201	172	32	52	9	0	8	29	1	0	27	23	.302	.393	.494	.887	128	85	6	0	0	2	2	7D
2007	33	NYY-min	A+	2	6	6	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667		2	2	0	0	0	0	TAM · FLOR
2007	33	NYY	AL	143	633	547	100	156	28	4	25	103	4	2	73	73	.285	.367	.488	.855	123	267	9	3	0	10	2	*7D
2008	34	NYY-min	A+	3	10	8	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	.250	.400	.625	1.025		5	0	0	0	0	0	TAM · FLOR
2008	34	NYY	AL	93	378	337	43	99	17	0	9	45	0	0	38	47	.294	.370	.424	.795	108	143	10	3	0	0	6	D7/9
2009	35	NYY	AL	142	526	456	62	125	21	1	28	90	0	1	64	75	.274	.367	.509	.876	123	232	4	4	0	2	1	*D
2010	36	LAA	AL	145	554	482	55	132	24	1	21	84	0	1	67	98	.274	.361	.459	.820	126	221	10	1	0	4	6	*D7
2011	37	OAK	AL	141	583	517	58	130	28	0	12	72	1	1	56	84	.251	.321	.375	.696	92	194	10	1	0	9	3	*D7
9 Seasons				1202	4953	4347	649	1239	248	12	173	753	13	9	539	667	.285	.363	.467	.830	120	2030	101	21	0	46	34
162 Game Avg.				162	668	586	87	167	33	2	23	101	2	1	73	90	.285	.363	.467	.830	120	274	14	3	0	6	5

NYY (7 yrs)				916	3816	3348	536	977	196	11	140	597	12	7	416	485	.292	.370	.482	.852	123	1615	81	19	0	33	25
OAK (1 yr)				141	583	517	58	130	28	0	12	72	1	1	56	84	.251	.321	.375	.696	92	194	10	1	0	9	3
LAA (1 yr)				145	554	482	55	132	24	1	21	84	0	1	67	98	.274	.361	.459	.820	126	221	10	1	0	4	6

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
2003	29	NYY	AL	695	6	0	-3	1	-19	-5	23	3	0.3	22	2.2	-1.9	$6,000,000	*78/D	AS,RoY-2
2004	30	NYY	AL	680	38	0	2	1	-14	-8	23	42	4.0	56	5.5	-1.5	$7,000,000	*7/8	AS,MVP-24
2005	31	NYY	AL	704	27	1	-2	1	-12	-7	23	31	3.1	43	4.3	-1.2	$8,000,000	*78D/9	MVP-14
2006	32	NYY	AL	201	8	0	0	0	-6	-3	7	6	0.6	12	1.2	-0.6	$13,000,000	7D
2007	33	NYY	AL	634	20	1	1	5	6	-9	20	44	4.4	38	3.8	0.6	$13,000,000	*7D
2008	34	NYY	AL	378	3	0	-2	0	-1	-8	13	5	0.5	6	0.6	-0.1	$13,000,000	D7/9
2009	35	NYY	AL	528	19	0	-0	3	0	-12	18	28	2.6	28	2.6	0.0	$13,000,000	*D
2010	36	LAA	AL	558	18	-4	-2	-0	-4	-13	19	14	1.4	18	1.8	-0.4	$6,000,000	*D7
2011	37	OAK	AL	585	-4	-0	-1	1	-3	-12	20	0	0.0	3	0.3	-0.3	$4,250,000	*D7
9 Seasons				4963	134	-2	-7	11	-53	-77	166	173	16.9	225	22.3	-5.4	$83,250,000

NYY (7 yrs)				3820	121	2	-4	11	-46	-52	127	159	15.5	205	20.2	-4.7	$73,000,000
OAK (1 yr)				585	-4	-0	-1	1	-3	-12	20	0	0.0	3	0.3	-0.3	$4,250,000
LAA (1 yr)				558	18	-4	-2	-0	-4	-13	19	14	1.4	18	1.8	-0.4	$6,000,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2003	29	NYY	AL	ALDS	MIN	W	4	17	15	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	0	2	3	.267	.353	.533	.886	8	1	0	0	0	0
2003	29	NYY	AL	ALCS	BOS	W	7	28	26	3	8	3	0	0	4	0	0	1	3	.308	.321	.423	.745	11	1	0	0	1	0
2003	29	NYY	AL	WS	FLA	L	6	27	23	1	6	0	0	1	4	0	0	3	2	.261	.370	.391	.762	9	0	1	0	0	0
2004	30	NYY	AL	ALDS	MIN	W	4	21	17	3	7	1	0	1	3	0	0	3	4	.412	.476	.647	1.123	11	0	0	0	1	1
2004	30	NYY	AL	ALCS	BOS	L	7	36	34	9	14	6	1	2	10	0	0	2	4	.412	.444	.824	1.268	28	0	0	0	0	0
2005	31	NYY	AL	ALDS	LAA	L	5	22	20	4	4	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	3	.200	.273	.400	.673	8	2	0	0	0	0
2006	32	NYY	AL	ALDS	DET	L	4	16	16	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.313	.563	5	0	0	0	0	0
2007	33	NYY	AL	ALDS	CLE	L	4	16	11	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	.182	.438	.182	.619	2	0	0	0	0	1

2009	35	NYY	AL	ALDS	MIN	W	3	12	9	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	3	.222	.417	.556	.972	5	0	0	0	0	0
2009	35	NYY	AL	ALCS	LAA	W	6	26	21	1	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	5	4	.238	.385	.286	.670	6	1	0	0	0	0
2009	35	NYY	AL	WS	PHI	W	6	14	13	3	8	1	0	3	8	0	0	1	3	.615	.643	1.385	2.027	18	0	0	0	0	0
6 Seasons (11 Series)							56	235	205	32	64	15	1	10	39	0	0	27	33	.312	.391	.541	.933	111	5	1	0	2	2
6 ALDS							24	104	88	15	23	4	0	4	10	0	0	15	17	.261	.365	.443	.809	39	3	0	0	1	2
3 ALCS							20	90	81	13	27	10	1	2	17	0	0	8	11	.333	.389	.556	.944	45	2	0	0	1	0
2 WS							12	41	36	4	14	1	0	4	12	0	0	4	5	.389	.463	.750	1.213	27	0	1	0	0	0

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
2003	NYY	AL	29	OF	159	156	148	1401.0	341	320	13	8	4	.977	-19	-7	-17	-5	2.14	2.09	.985	2.35	2.33	AS,RoY-2
2003	NYY	AL	29	LF	118	110	109	997.1	229	211	11	7	3	.969	-20	-7	-25	-8	2.00	1.88	.985	2.17	2.14	AS,RoY-2
2003	NYY	AL	29	CF	46	46	39	403.2	113	110	2	1	1	.991	1	0	3	0	2.50	2.43	.990	2.78	2.75	AS,RoY-2
2003	NYY	AL	29	DH	2	2																		AS,RoY-2
2004	NYY	AL	30	LF	162	160	145	1388.0	318	303	8	7	2	.978	-14	-2	-12	-2	2.02	1.92	.983	2.04	2.03	AS,MVP-24
2004	NYY	AL	30	OF	160	162	145	1403.0	322	307	8	7	2	.978	-14	-3	-12	-2	2.02	1.97	.985	2.30	2.28	AS,MVP-24
2004	NYY	AL	30	CF	3	2	0	15.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-1	-8	-80	2.40	1.33	.988	2.64	2.63	AS,MVP-24
2005	NYY	AL	31	OF	142	142	128	1229.1	289	279	7	3	1	.990	-12	0	-11	0	2.09	2.01	.986	2.30	2.28	MVP-14
2005	NYY	AL	31	LF	115	110	105	977.1	229	219	7	3	1	.987	-4	5	-5	6	2.08	1.97	.988	2.10	2.08	MVP-14
2005	NYY	AL	31	CF	28	28	21	222.1	54	54	0	0	0	1.000	-5	-4	-26	-22	2.19	1.93	.989	2.69	2.66	MVP-14
2005	NYY	AL	31	DH	19	19																		MVP-14
2005	NYY	AL	31	RF	4	4	2	29.2	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-3	-1	-121	-40	1.82	1.50	.982	2.12	2.10	MVP-14
2006	NYY	AL	32	LF	36	36	27	289.0	84	82	1	1	1	.988	-6	-3	-26	-12	2.58	2.31	.986	2.06	2.03
2006	NYY	AL	32	OF	36	36	27	289.0	84	82	1	1	1	.988	-6	-3	-26	-12	2.58	2.31	.986	2.30	2.27
2006	NYY	AL	32	DH	13	13
2007	NYY	AL	33	LF	112	111	106	980.0	222	213	6	3	0	.986	6	1	7	1	2.01	1.96	.985	2.11	2.09
2007	NYY	AL	33	OF	112	111	106	980.0	222	213	6	3	0	.986	6	1	7	1	2.01	1.96	.987	2.30	2.28
2007	NYY	AL	33	DH	32	32
2008	NYY	AL	34	DH	66	66
2008	NYY	AL	34	OF	23	22	18	194.1	45	42	2	1	1	.978	-1	-1	-4	-6	2.04	1.91	.986	2.31	2.28
2008	NYY	AL	34	LF	21	20	16	176.1	43	40	2	1	1	.977	0	-1	1	-7	2.14	2.00	.984	2.05	2.03
2008	NYY	AL	34	RF	3	2	2	18.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-1	0	-53	0	1.00	0.67	.985	2.15	2.13
2009	NYY	AL	35	DH	116	116
2010	LAA	AL	36	DH	120	119
2010	LAA	AL	36	LF	18	17	7	123.0	17	16	1	0	0	1.000	-4	-2	-36	-20	1.24	0.94	.983	2.07	2.05
2010	LAA	AL	36	OF	18	17	7	123.0	17	16	1	0	0	1.000	-4	-2	-36	-19	1.24	0.94	.986	2.30	2.28
2011	OAK	AL	37	DH	110	108
2011	OAK	AL	37	LF	27	27	20	232.1	57	53	3	1	2	.982	-3	0	-15	0	2.17	2.07	.982	2.13	2.11
2011	OAK	AL	37	OF	27	27	20	232.1	57	53	3	1	2	.982	-3	0	-15	0	2.17	2.07	.986	2.28	2.26
	8 Seasons			OF	677	673	599	5852.0	1377	1312	41	24	11	.983	-53	-15	-11	-3	2.08	2.00	.986	2.31	2.29
	8 Seasons			LF	609	591	535	5163.1	1199	1137	39	23	10	.981	-45	-9	-11	-2	2.05	1.93	.985	2.10	2.08
	3 Seasons			CF	77	76	60	641.0	171	168	2	1	1	.994	-4	-5	-7	-9	2.39	2.21	.990	2.74	2.71
	2 Seasons			RF	7	6	4	47.2	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-4	-1	-96	-25	1.51	1.14	.982	2.13	2.11
	9 Seasons			TOT	677	673	599	5852.0	1377	1312	41	24	11	.983	-53	-30	-11	-6	2.08	2.00	.986	2.31	2.29
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2003 (CF) 2004 *	Awards (yr lg award) 2009 ML WS MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2004 AL (24, 1%) 2005 AL (14, 2%) 0.03 Career Shares (1251st)	Offensive WAR† s c a p y 2004 AL 5.5 (7th)
Batting Average s c a p y 2005 AL .305 (8th) Active .285 (42nd)	On-Base% s c a p y Active .363 (41st)	On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y 2004 AL .912 (10th) Career .830 (245th)	Games Played s c a p y 2003 AL 163 (1st) 2004 AL 162 (1st) 2005 AL 162 (1st)
Runs Scored s c a p y 2004 AL 109 (8th)	Hits s c a p y 2005 AL 192 (9th)	Total Bases s c a p y 2005 AL 312 (8th)	Doubles s c a p y 2003 AL 42 (8th) 2005 AL 45 (2nd)
Runs Batted In s c a p y 2003 AL 106 (10th) 2004 AL 108 (10th) 2005 AL 116 (8th) Active 753 (47th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 2004 AL 88 (3rd) Active 539 (47th)	Singles s c a p y 2003 AL 120 (8th)	Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y 2004 AL 137 (9th) Active 120 (45th)
Runs Created s c a p y 2004 AL 124 (6th)	Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y 2004 AL 35 (7th) Active 135 (43rd)	Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y 2004 AL 3.2 (7th) Active 12.6 (42nd)	Extra Base Hits s c a p y 2005 AL 71 (9th)
Times On Base s c a p y 2004 AL 265 (5th) 2005 AL 258 (6th)	Offensive Win % s c a p y 2004 AL .678 (9th) Active .599 (47th)	Sacrifice Flies s c a p y 2005 AL 8 (7th) 2007 AL 10 (3rd) 2011 AL 9 (5th) Active 46 (46th)	Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 2003 AL 25 (2nd)
AB per HR s c a p y 2009 AL 16.3 (7th)	Outs Made s c a p y 2003 AL 477 (9th)	Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y 2004 AL 38.30 (8th) 2005 AL 30.96 (10th) Active 164.25 (43rd) Career 164.25 (238th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2004 AL 3.3 (8th) 2005 AL 3.5 (7th) Active 12.6 (46th)
Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y 2004 AL 3.5 (7th) Active 12.9 (46th)	Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y 2004 AL 3.5 (8th) 2005 AL 3.0 (10th) Active 15.5 (42nd) Career 15.5 (246th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 609 (12th)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 1,137 (11th)
Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 39 (10th)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 23 (10th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2003 AL 159 (2nd) 2004 AL 160 (1st)	Assists as OF s c a p y 2003 AL 13 (2nd)
Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 2003 AL 8 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2007 AL 2.01 (5th) Active 2.05 (4th) Career 2.05 (52nd)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2004 AL 1.92 (5th) 2007 AL 1.96 (3rd) Active 1.93 (2nd) Career 1.93 (91st)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2007 AL .987 (5th) Active .981 (11th) Career .981 (71st)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Black Ink	Batting - 3 (523), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink	Batting - 31 (766), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 34 (551), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 22 (656), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Transactions

December 19, 2002: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.
November 9, 2009: Granted Free Agency.
December 14, 2009: Signed as a Free Agent with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
November 1, 2010: Granted Free Agency.
December 14, 2010: Signed as a Free Agent with the Oakland Athletics.
October 30, 2011: Granted Free Agency.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
2003	29	New York Yankees	$6,000,000	4/3/03 AP
2004	30	New York Yankees	$7,000,000	4/7/04 AP
2005	31	New York Yankees	$8,000,000
2006	32	New York Yankees	$13,000,000
2007	33	New York Yankees	$13,000,000
2008	34	New York Yankees	$13,000,000
2009	35	New York Yankees	$13,000,000
2010	36	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	$6,000,000
2011	37	Oakland Athletics	$4,250,000
2012 Status		not updated,
Career to date (may be incomplete)			$83,250,000

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