Matt Williams

Who is Matt Williams?

Matthew Derrick Williams, nicknamed "Matt the Bat" and "The Big Marine", is the manager for the Washington Nationals. He is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and right-handed batter who played for the San Francisco Giants, the Cleveland Indians, and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Williams played in a World Series for each of these teams. 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. He scored 997 Major League runs, and he accumulated 1878 hits, 338 doubles, and 35 triples, while playing in 1866 regular-season games.