Mike Matthews

{{for|the football player|Mike Matthews (wide receiver)}}

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1973)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Mike Matthews

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1973|10|24}}

|birth_place=Woodbridge, Virginia, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 31

|debutyear=2000

|debutteam=St. Louis Cardinals

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=April 24

|finalyear=2005

|finalteam=New York Mets

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=14–10

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.54

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=175

|teams=

• St. Louis Cardinals ({{Baseball year|2000}}–{{Baseball year|2002}})
• Milwaukee Brewers ({{Baseball year|2002}})
• San Diego Padres ({{Baseball year|2003}})
• Cincinnati Reds ({{Baseball year|2004}})
• New York Mets ({{Baseball year|2005}})

|highlights=

}}

Michael Scott Matthews (born October 24, 1973) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched from {{mlby|2000}} to {{mlby|2005}}. Matthews graduated from Woodbridge Senior High School in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Matthews pitched a single season at Montgomery Junior College in Rockville, Maryland in {{Baseball year|1992}} before being drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the second round of that year's amateur draft. In August {{Baseball year|1999}}, he was traded twice in a single month, first to the Boston Red Sox organization, then to the St. Louis Cardinals three weeks later. He made his major league debut with the Cardinals on May 31, 2000.

Matthews was a relief pitcher in the major leagues. He was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers toward the end of the {{mlby|2002}} season, signed as a free agent with the San Diego Padres for {{mlby|2003}}, with the Cincinnati Reds for {{mlby|2004}}, and with the New York Mets for 2005.