How Gary Matthews's Total Average Compares to Similar Players
Gary Matthews posted a career Total Average of .794, above the league average of .673 — production that kept him consistently ahead of most peers. His best Total Average season came in 1981, posting .916, well above the league average of .632 that year. The lowest point came in 1987 at .546, well below the league average of .709 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .780 in 1985 to .825 in 1986 and .546 in 1987. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained above league norms across 16 seasons.
Gary Matthews Lifetime Total Average
Stats similar to Total Average for Gary Matthews
| Gary Matthews
Total Average |
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| Career | 0.794 |
| Season Avg. | 0.794 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.794 |
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Gary Matthews Total Average Per Season
Gary Matthews's Total Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, LF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Gary Matthews Total Average by Team
Gary Matthews's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Gary Matthews Total Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Gary Matthews's career Total Average shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Gary Matthews Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Gary Matthews's seasonal Total Average alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Gary Matthews Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Gary Matthews's MLB career with Total Average alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.
Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
