Matt Batts

Position: Catcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-11, 200lb (180cm, 90kg)

Born: October 16, 1921 in San Antonio, TX us

Died: July 14, 2013 in Baton Rouge, LA

Buried: Cremated

High School: San Antonio Technology Academy (San Antonio, TX)

School: Baylor University (Waco, TX)

Debut: September 10, 1947 (Age 25-329d, 10,347th in major league history)
vs. DET 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: May 8, 1956 (Age 34-205d)
vs. NYG 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1948 season

Full Name: Matthew Daniel Batts

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Relatives: Uncle of Danny Heep

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

1.9

1605

432

.269

163

RBI

219

OBP

.329

SLG

.391

OPS

.720

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1953 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1953 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	2 (1)	Apr 16	DET		CLE	L,8-11	CG	44	9.0	8	1	0	9	1	C
2	3	Apr 17	DET		CLE	W,6-5	CG	42	9.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
3	4	Apr 18 (1)	DET		SLB	L,7-8	CG	51	11.0	8	0	0	8	0	C
4	6 (1)	Apr 19	DET		SLB	L,3-6	GS	35	7.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
5	7	Apr 21	DET		CHW	L,5-7	CG	47	9.0	3	2	0	5	0	C
6	8	Apr 22	DET		CHW	L,7-9	CG	43	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
7	9	Apr 23	DET		CHW	W,8-4	GS	21	6.0	1	0	0	1	0	C
8	10	Apr 24	DET	@	CLE	L,1-4	CG	35	8.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
9	11	Apr 25	DET	@	CLE	L,3-4	CG	34	8.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
10	12	Apr 26 (1)	DET	@	CLE	L,1-2	CG	35	8.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
11	14 (1)	Apr 28	DET		BOS	L,0-2	CG	35	9.0	2	2	0	4	0	C
12	15	Apr 29	DET		BOS	L,4-10	CG	50	9.0	7	0	1	8	0	C
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
13	16	May 1	DET		PHA	W,7-3	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
14	17	May 2	DET		PHA	L,1-4	CG	33	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
15	18	May 3	DET		NYY	L,5-6	GS	35	8.0	2	2	0	4	0	C
16	19	May 4	DET		NYY	W,10-8	CG	40	9.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
17	20	May 5	DET		WSH	L,4-14	CG	48	9.0	5	1	0	6	0	C
18	21	May 6	DET		WSH	W,8-4	CG	38	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
19	22	May 8	DET	@	CHW	L,2-7	CG	42	8.0	3	3	0	6	0	C
20	23	May 9	DET	@	CHW	L,3-12	CG	44	8.0	0	0	0	0	0	C
21	24	May 10 (1)	DET	@	CHW	W,8-6	CG	38	9.0	1	0	0	1	0	C
22	26 (1)	May 12	DET	@	WSH	L,1-10	CG	41	8.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
23	28 (1)	May 15	DET	@	PHA	W,7-6	CG	38	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
24	29	May 16	DET	@	PHA	W,6-3	CG	37	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
25	38 (8)	May 27	DET	@	CHW	T,2-2		17	3.2	1	0	0	1	0	C
26	41 (2)	May 30 (2)	DET		SLB	L,1-13	CG	49	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
27	42	May 31	DET		CLE	L,1-8	CG	40	9.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
28	44 (1)	Jun 3	DET		PHA	L,7-10	CG	42	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
29	45	Jun 4 (1)	DET		PHA	L,2-11	CG	45	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
30	48 (2)	Jun 6 (2)	DET		BOS	L,0-1	CG	39	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
31	49	Jun 7	DET		BOS	L,1-4	CG	42	9.0	2	0	1	3	0	C
32	50	Jun 8	DET		BOS	W,6-3	CG	36	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
33	51	Jun 9	DET		NYY	L,2-3	CG	33	9.0	6	2	0	8	0	C
34	52	Jun 10	DET		NYY	L,4-11	CG	49	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
35	54 (1)	Jun 12	DET		WSH	W,2-1	CG	34	9.0	2	1	0	3	0	C
36	55	Jun 13	DET		WSH	W,7-6	CG	42	9.0	9	0	0	9	0	C
37	56	Jun 14	DET		WSH	L,1-6	CG	37	9.0	5	2	0	7	0	C
38	57	Jun 16	DET	@	BOS	W,5-3	CG	37	9.0	8	0	0	8	0	C
39	58	Jun 17	DET	@	BOS	L,1-17	GS	29	4.0	5	2	0	7	1	C
40	59	Jun 18	DET	@	BOS	L,3-23	CG	60	8.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
41	61 (1)	Jun 20	DET	@	NYY	L,2-6	GF	9	2.0	2	0	0	2	0	PH C
42	63 (1)	Jun 21 (2)	DET	@	NYY	W,10-3	CG	37	9.0	9	0	0	9	0	C
43	64	Jun 23	DET	@	PHA	W,5-0	CG	31	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
44	65	Jun 24	DET	@	PHA	W,6-3	CG	38	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
45	66	Jun 25	DET	@	PHA	L,2-5	CG	33	8.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
46	67	Jun 26	DET	@	WSH	W,7-3	CG	37	9.0	7	1	0	8	0	C
47	68	Jun 27	DET	@	WSH	L,5-6	CG	43	8.2	2	0	0	2	0	C
48	70 (1)	Jun 28 (2)	DET	@	WSH	W,5-1	CG	35	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
49	71	Jun 30	DET		CLE	L,4-6	CG	26	5.0	1	0	1	2	0	C
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
50	72	Jul 1	DET		CLE	W,4-2	CG	33	9.0	9	1	0	10	0	C
51	73	Jul 2	DET		CLE	W,4-2	CG	35	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
52	74	Jul 3	DET	@	CLE	L,1-8	CG	38	8.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
53	76 (1)	Jul 4 (2)	DET	@	CLE	W,6-1	CG	35	9.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
54	78 (1)	Jul 5 (2)	DET	@	SLB	W,7-1	CG	32	9.0	10	0	0	10	0	C
55	79	Jul 6	DET	@	SLB	W,8-7	GS	45	9.0	3	0	1	4	0	C
56	80	Jul 7	DET	@	CHW	L,2-3	CG	37	8.2	3	1	1	5	0	C
57	82 (1)	Jul 9	DET	@	CHW	L,2-4	CG	31	8.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
58	83	Jul 10	DET		SLB	L,4-8	CG	42	9.0	10	0	0	10	0	C
59	84	Jul 11	DET		SLB	L,2-7	CG	37	9.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
60	85	Jul 12 (1)	DET		SLB	W,8-7	CG	39	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
61	87 (1)	Jul 16	DET		BOS	L,2-3	CG	36	9.0	5	2	0	7	1	C
62	88	Jul 17	DET		BOS	L,2-3	CG	38	9.0	4	3	1	8	1	C
63	89	Jul 18	DET		BOS	L,3-5	CG	42	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
64	91 (1)	Jul 19 (2)	DET		PHA	T,8-8	GS	38	8.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
65	94 (2)	Jul 23 (2)	DET		WSH	W,5-4	CG	38	9.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
66	98 (3)	Jul 26 (2)	DET		NYY	L,4-14	GS	17	3.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
67	99	Jul 28	DET	@	WSH	W,8-5	CG	43	9.0	11	0	1	12	0	C
68	100	Jul 29	DET	@	WSH	L,5-13	CG	47	8.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
69	101	Jul 30	DET	@	WSH	L,4-7	CG	38	8.0	2	1	0	3	0	C
70	102	Jul 31	DET	@	BOS	W,5-3	CG	39	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
71	103	Aug 1	DET	@	BOS	W,4-3	GS	35	8.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
72	105 (1)	Aug 2 (2)	DET	@	BOS	W,9-6	GS	32	7.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
73	106	Aug 4	DET	@	NYY	L,0-15	CG	44	8.0	3	1	0	4	1	C
74	107	Aug 5	DET	@	NYY	L,4-5	GS	33	7.0	1	0	0	1	0	C
75	110 (2)	Aug 8	DET	@	PHA	L,5-9	GS	40	7.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
76	111	Aug 9 (1)	DET	@	PHA	L,3-4	CG	40	9.2	4	0	0	4	0	C
77	113 (1)	Aug 11 (1)	DET	@	SLB	L,2-5	CG	32	8.0	5	1	0	6	0	C
78	117 (3)	Aug 14	DET		CHW	L,0-7	CG	45	9.0	5	3	0	8	2	C
79	118	Aug 15	DET		CHW	W,5-4	CG	37	9.0	3	1	0	4	0	C
80	119	Aug 16	DET		CHW	W,3-2	CG	36	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
81	120	Aug 18	DET		CLE	W,3-2	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
82	121	Aug 19	DET		CLE	W,4-2	CG	40	9.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
83	122	Aug 20	DET		CLE	L,7-13	CG	54	9.0	8	1	0	9	0	C
84	123	Aug 21	DET	@	CHW	L,1-4	CG	32	8.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
85	125 (1)	Aug 23 (1)	DET	@	CHW	L,1-2	CG	33	8.0	2	1	0	3	0	C
86	127 (1)	Aug 25	DET		NYY	L,3-6	CG	47	11.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
87	128	Aug 26	DET		NYY	L,4-5	CG	41	9.0	5	2	0	7	0	C
88	129	Aug 27	DET		WSH	L,5-12	CG	51	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
89	131 (1)	Aug 29	DET		WSH	L,2-7	CG	39	9.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
90	133 (1)	Aug 30 (2)	DET		PHA	W,9-1	CG	34	8.0	7	1	0	8	0	C
91	135 (1)	Aug 31 (2)	DET		PHA	L,4-10	CG	41	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
92	138 (2)	Sep 3	DET		BOS	W,5-4	CG	38	9.0	9	0	0	9	0	C
93	139	Sep 4	DET	@	SLB	L,6-14	CG	44	8.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
94	141 (1)	Sep 6	DET	@	SLB	W,5-2	CG	36	9.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
95	143 (1)	Sep 7 (2)	DET		CHW	W,4-2	CG	35	9.0	7	1	0	8	0	C
96	145 (1)	Sep 9 (2)	DET	@	PHA	L,1-7	CG	39	8.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
97	149 (3)	Sep 13 (2)	DET	@	WSH	W,6-4	CG	40	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
98	151 (1)	Sep 16	DET	@	BOS	W,8-3	CG	38	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
99	153 (1)	Sep 20 (1)	DET		CLE	W,8-6	CG	42	9.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
100	155 (1)	Sep 22	DET		SLB	L,3-7	GF	8	1.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
101	156	Sep 25	DET	@	CLE	L,3-12	GF	9	1.0	2	0	0	2	0	PH C
102	157	Sep 26	DET	@	CLE	L,3-12	CG	45	8.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
103	158	Sep 27	DET	@	CLE	W,7-3	GF	16	4.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
							103gm		848.2	463	44	7	514	7