Clarence Locke
Kansas City Monarchs 1944; Chicago American Giants 1945–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .600 | .800 | 129.2 | 145.5 | .362 | 0.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .056 | .056 | .111 | -53.5 | -67.4 | .052 | -0.5 |
| 1946 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -86.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
| 1947 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .333 | .273 | .606 | 71.3 | 63.9 | .302 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .333 | .500 | 29.8 | 31.6 | .220 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 18.7 | 6.27 | 1.821 | 4.82 | 4.46 | 105.1 | 67.7 | -0.5 |
| 1946 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10.3 | 1.74 | 1.065 | 2.61 | 3.14 | 76.6 | 235.3 | 0.3 |
| 1947 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 25.0 | 5.04 | 1.600 | 4.68 | 5.33 | 108.3 | 97.8 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9.3 | 8.68 | 2.679 | 3.86 | 4.49 | 92.8 | 55.8 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-09-05 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1947-08-04 | CAG @ NBY Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-08-25 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1945-07-16 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1947-05-30 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-08-04 | CAG @ NBY Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1945-07-25 | CAG @ IC Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947-05-30 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1946-07-07 | BBB @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1947-05-05 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
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.