Clark Griffith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 156 lb

BornNovember 20, 1869 · Clear Creek, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1891

Final gameOctober 7, 1914

Seasons21 (1891–1914)

Boston Reds 1891; St. Louis Browns 1891; Chicago Colts 1893–1897; Chicago Orphans 1898–1900; Chicago White Sox 1901–1902; New York Highlanders 1903–1907; Cincinnati Reds 1909–1910; Washington Senators 1912–1914

Percentile snapshot

1903 season — qualified pitchers

23.6

34.7

52.8

65.3

38.9

SHO

48.6

201

66.7

86.1

27.8

52.8

213.0

36.1

ERA

2.70

59.7

WHIP

1.099

81.9

K/9

2.92

23.6

FIP

2.86

69.4

FIP-

92.8

69.4

ERA+

114.0

62.5

sWAR

3.4

66.7

of 73 qualified 1903 pitchers (min 136 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

118.6

sWAR

57.6

99.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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
1891	37	117	100	17	16	2	1	2	11	14	20	3	0	.160	.282	.260	.542	67.5	56.6	.280	2.3
1893	4	11	11	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.182	.182	.182	.364	9.1	-3.4	.174	0.1
1894	46	165	142	27	33	5	4	0	15	23	9	6	0	.232	.339	.324	.663	71.0	60.4	.323	3.5
1895	43	163	144	20	46	3	0	1	27	16	9	2	0	.319	.391	.361	.752	98.7	94.6	.366	6.6
1896	38	146	135	22	36	5	2	1	16	9	7	3	0	.267	.313	.356	.668	77.6	75.8	.318	5.8
1897	46	183	162	27	38	8	4	0	21	18	8	2	0	.235	.311	.333	.644	74.5	70.0	.312	5.6
1898	38	137	122	15	20	2	3	0	15	13	6	1	0	.164	.244	.230	.474	43.8	35.7	.242	8.9
1899	39	140	120	15	31	5	0	0	14	14	9	2	0	.258	.346	.300	.646	84.4	77.5	.324	7.1
1900	30	104	95	16	24	4	1	1	7	8	7	2	0	.253	.311	.347	.658	82.4	81.4	.316	4.5
1901	35	115	89	21	27	3	1	2	14	23	5	0	0	.303	.446	.427	.873	145.5	146.0	.421	6.2
1902	35	102	92	11	20	3	0	0	8	7	4	0	0	.217	.273	.250	.523	54.3	48.7	.255	0.5
1903	25	83	69	5	11	4	0	1	7	11	13	1	0	.159	.284	.261	.545	69.0	61.0	.271	3.4
1904	16	47	42	2	6	2	0	0	1	4	13	0	0	.143	.217	.190	.408	26.6	26.9	.207	0.7
1905	26	37	32	2	7	1	1	0	5	3	11	0	0	.219	.286	.313	.598	80.4	81.3	.292	2.7
1906	17	23	18	0	2	0	0	0	1	3	4	0	0	.111	.238	.111	.349	22.0	9.6	.200	0.3
1907	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.2	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1909	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.6	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1910	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1912	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-105.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1913	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	787.4	773.5	1.375	0.1
1914	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	834.8	793.2	1.385	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1891	34	21	14	9	2	15	0	242	94	73	88	11	226.3	3.74	1.392	3.50	3.74	100.9	99.2	2.3
1893	4	2	1	2	0	2	0	24	11	5	9	1	19.7	5.03	1.475	4.12	3.91	83.8	92.6	0.1
1894	36	30	21	14	0	28	0	328	143	85	71	12	261.3	4.92	1.580	2.45	5.00	93.9	108.2	3.5
1895	42	41	26	14	0	39	0	434	154	91	79	11	353.0	3.93	1.487	2.01	4.50	94.2	121.6	6.6
1896	36	35	23	11	0	35	0	370	125	70	81	3	317.7	3.54	1.385	2.29	3.68	84.4	123.1	5.8
1897	41	38	21	18	1	38	1	410	142	86	102	3	343.7	3.72	1.443	2.67	3.74	86.9	115.7	5.6
1898	38	38	24	10	0	36	4	305	68	64	97	1	325.7	1.88	1.133	2.68	2.99	82.9	191.7	8.9
1899	38	38	22	14	0	35	0	329	99	65	73	5	319.7	2.79	1.233	2.06	3.43	89.0	138.1	7.1
1900	30	30	14	13	0	27	4	245	84	51	61	6	248.0	3.05	1.194	2.21	3.46	93.7	121.2	4.5
1901	35	30	24	7	1	26	5	275	79	50	67	4	266.7	2.67	1.219	2.26	3.22	90.1	133.8	6.2
1902	28	24	15	9	0	20	3	247	99	47	51	11	213.0	4.18	1.380	2.15	3.89	113.9	81.6	0.5
1903	25	24	14	11	0	22	2	201	64	33	69	3	213.0	2.70	1.099	2.92	2.86	92.8	114.0	3.4
1904	16	11	7	5	0	8	1	91	32	16	36	3	100.3	2.87	1.066	3.23	2.77	102.8	94.0	0.7
1905	25	7	9	6	1	4	2	82	19	15	46	1	101.7	1.68	.954	4.07	2.15	74.4	172.1	2.7
1906	17	2	2	2	2	1	0	58	20	15	16	0	59.7	3.02	1.223	2.41	2.90	106.3	90.3	0.3
1907	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	8	6	5	0	8.3	8.64	2.520	5.40	3.30	119.6	32.0	-0.6
1909	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	11	4	2	3	0	6.0	6.00	2.167	4.50	2.15	83.0	43.1	-0.2
1912	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0.0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0	-0.1
1913	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	2.49	84.9	—	0.1
1914	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	9.00	0.34	12.3	—	0.1

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

485

1,580

1,380

202

321

RBI

166

126

.2326

OBP

.3181

SLG

.3101

OPS

.6282

Pitching

G (P)

453

372

180th-most career GS

237

62nd-most career W

146

181st-most career L

337

28th-most career CG

SHO

218th-most career SHO

3,386

87th-most career IP

SO (P)

955

BB allowed

774

284th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.312

320th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3126

K/9

2.54

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1901-06-07	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	4	0	5
1901-06-25	CWS @ ATH Gameday	2	2	2	2	0	0	1	4
1901-08-20	CWS @ MIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	1	4
1903-07-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	1	4
1903-06-03	BOS @ NYY Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	2	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1903-07-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	10.0	9	4	3	2	6
1905-10-03	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	7	1	0	1	6
1903-06-05	CLE @ NYY Gameday	7.2	8	4	2	1	6
1905-08-24	NYY @ BAL Gameday	6.0	5	0	0	0	6
1902-09-07	MIN @ CWS Gameday	13.0	13	3	3	2	5

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1946 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.