Matthew Kyle Watson (born September 5, 1978) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder who played for the New York Mets and Oakland Athletics between 2003 and 2010.

A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Watson attended J. P. McCaskey High School and Xavier University.

In 2002, Watson was traded with Phil Seibel and Scott Strickland to the New York Mets for Bruce Chen, Luis Figueroa, Dicky Gonzalez and a player to be named later, who would be Saúl Rivera.

He joined his hometown Lancaster Barnstormers in July 2009 after a brief stint in the New York Mets system.

On July 21, 2010, he hit his first career home run off of Clay Buchholz of the Boston Red Sox.