Best Of The San Francisco Giants: Top 10 Seasons At 3rd Base
By Phil Watson
8. Matt Williams, 1994
| Year ▾ | Age | G | PA | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 28 | 112 | 483 | 74 | 119 | 16 | 3 | 43 | 96 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 87 | .267 | .319 | .607 | .926 | 141 |
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 2/17/2014.
This is a season that likely would have ranked much higher had it not been truncated by the strike in August. Williams led the National League with 43 homers, earned his second All-Star Game appearance, third Gold Glove and finished runner-up to Houston’s Jeff Bagwell in the MVP race.
He was seventh in the NL with a 4.7 WAR (fifth among position players) and 10th with a 3.9 Offensive WAR and 141 OPS-plus.
Williams was also second in the league with 270 total bases and 96 RBI, third with 62 extra base hits and 10.3 at-bats per home run and fifth with a .607 slugging percentage. Defensively, he led NL third basemen with 235 assists.
Offensively, Williams led NL third basemen with 43 homers, 96 RBI, 74 runs, a .607 slugging percentage and .926 OPS.