Eddie Mathews played 17 seasons (1952–1968) for ATL, DET and HOU. Career regular-season line: 2,315 hits, 512 home runs and a .271 average. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1959. Led the league in a statistical category 2 times. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1978. Honors: 9× All-Star Selections.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 99.8th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
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Rate Eddie Mathews — All-Time
16 seasons · peak 19.3 in 1959 · league-best season: 1960
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
80.3 career wins over 16 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1959 · +7.4 wins
Latest season · 1967 · +2.4 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Eddie Mathews led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 22 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1959, 16 rated seasons.
Season boards
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top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
Where Eddie Mathews ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
The season chip above measures Eddie Mathews's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 17 seasons (1952–1968) — a true nomad. The crest trail: