Matt Williams (third baseman)
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| Third baseman / Manager | |||
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Born: November 28, 1965 Bishop, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 11, 1987, for the San Francisco Giants | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| May 31, 2003, for the Arizona Diamondbacks | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .268 | ||
| Home runs | 378 | ||
| Runs batted in | 1,218 | ||
| Managerial record | 179–145 | ||
| Winning % | .552 | ||
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Matthew Derrick Williams (born November 28, 1965), nicknamed "Matt the Bat" and "The Big Marine" is a former professional baseball third baseman. A right-handed batter, Williams played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, the Cleveland Indians, and the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was the manager of the Washington Nationals from 2014 to 2015.
Williams played in a World Series for each of these teams (1989 with the Giants, 1997 with the Indians, and 2001 with the Diamondbacks in which he won over the New York Yankees). During these years, Williams became the only player to hit at least one World Series home run for three different Major League baseball teams. During his career, Williams had an overall batting average of .268, with 378 home runs and 1218 runs batted in (RBIs). He scored 997 Major League runs, and he accumulated 1878 hits, 338 doubles, and 35 triples, while playing in 1866 regular-season games. As of August, 2015 – 13 years after his final game – he still ranks in the top 75 all-time players for career home runs and the top 150 all-time players for career RBIs.
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