Bill Clarkson
New York Giants 1927; Boston Braves 1928; New York Giants 1928; Boston Braves 1929
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 28 | 24 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .050 | .208 | .050 | .258 | -15.1 | -27.4 | .165 | 0.3 |
| 1928 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.0 |
| 1929 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 155.9 | 151.6 | .459 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 92 | 42 | 52 | 28 | 3 | 86.7 | 4.36 | 1.662 | 2.91 | 4.63 | 119.2 | 89.0 | 0.3 |
| 1928 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 31 | 23 | 11 | 2 | 40.3 | 6.92 | 2.132 | 2.45 | 4.66 | 119.9 | 56.2 | -1.0 |
| 1929 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 10.29 | 2.857 | 0.00 | 5.02 | 109.0 | 44.8 | -0.3 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-07-19 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1929-10-06 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1927-04-12 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-14 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-15 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-05-30 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| 1927-07-02 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 9.1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1928-09-17 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 3.0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1927-06-14 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 1927-07-19 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.