Clay Carroll

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 178 lb

BornMay 2, 1941 · Clanton, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1964

Final gameOctober 1, 1978

Seasons15 (1964–1978)

Milwaukee Braves 1964–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966–1968; Cincinnati Reds 1968–1975; Chicago White Sox 1976–1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1978

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

ERA+

121.1

90.7

sWAR

22.8

94.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1964	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	0.6
1965	19	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.9	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1966	73	38	30	2	3	0	0	0	11	.100	.100	.100	.200	-64.5	-44.5	.091	3.5
1967	42	19	16	0	1	0	1	1	5	.063	.118	.063	.180	-56.9	-46.6	.099	-1.7
1968	68	31	29	2	6	0	2	1	6	.207	.233	.207	.440	21.0	30.3	.213	2.4
1969	71	38	29	6	6	1	1	4	9	.207	.303	.310	.613	73.3	69.3	.297	2.2
1970	65	15	14	1	1	0	0	1	4	.071	.133	.071	.205	-48.7	-43.2	.112	2.7
1971	61	13	10	0	1	0	0	0	4	.100	.100	.100	.200	-63.7	-42.3	.093	1.9
1972	65	12	11	2	2	0	1	0	3	.182	.182	.182	.364	-5.8	7.0	.169	2.2
1973	53	18	14	2	3	0	1	0	4	.214	.214	.214	.429	15.0	22.7	.200	0.7
1974	57	18	18	1	3	0	1	0	8	.167	.167	.167	.333	-17.7	-5.0	.158	2.6
1975	56	21	19	1	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.1	-100.0	.000	1.9
1976	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1977	59	14	11	0	1	0	0	0	2	.091	.091	.091	.182	-68.2	-50.5	.084	2.2
1978	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1964	11	1	2	0	1	0	15	4	3	17	1	20.3	1.77	.885	7.52	2.16	60.7	200.9	0.6
1965	19	1	0	1	1	0	35	17	13	16	3	34.7	4.41	1.385	4.15	4.05	114.2	80.3	-0.1
1966	73	3	8	7	11	0	127	38	29	67	8	144.3	2.37	1.081	4.18	3.15	85.7	155.1	3.5
1967	42	7	6	12	0	1	111	57	29	35	6	93.0	5.52	1.505	3.39	3.78	112.8	60.7	-1.7
1968	68	1	7	8	17	0	128	43	38	71	4	144.0	2.69	1.153	4.44	2.84	90.8	116.3	2.4
1969	71	4	12	6	7	0	149	59	78	90	9	150.7	3.52	1.507	5.38	3.93	105.0	106.2	2.2
1970	65	0	9	4	16	0	104	30	27	63	4	104.3	2.59	1.256	5.43	2.97	73.6	156.1	2.7
1971	61	0	10	4	15	0	78	26	42	64	5	93.7	2.50	1.281	6.15	3.28	97.0	135.3	1.9
1972	65	0	6	4	37	0	89	24	32	51	5	96.0	2.25	1.260	4.78	3.17	97.3	145.0	2.2
1973	53	5	8	8	14	0	111	38	34	41	5	92.7	3.69	1.565	3.98	3.63	104.3	94.3	0.7
1974	57	3	12	5	6	0	96	24	30	46	3	100.7	2.15	1.252	4.11	2.95	83.4	165.0	2.6
1975	56	2	7	5	7	0	93	28	32	44	2	96.3	2.62	1.298	4.11	3.06	84.0	139.4	1.9
1976	29	0	4	4	6	0	67	22	24	38	1	77.3	2.56	1.177	4.42	2.81	79.0	139.0	1.7
1977	59	1	5	5	5	0	91	31	28	38	11	101.3	2.75	1.174	3.38	4.25	109.3	140.9	2.2
1978	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	0	4.0	2.25	1.250	0.00	4.87	132.4	163.6	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

731

245

208

RBI

.1298

OBP

.1581

SLG

.1442

OPS

.3023

Pitching

G (P)

731

96th-most career G (P)

143

100th-most career SV

SHO

1,353

SO (P)

681

BB allowed

442

ERA

2.939

158th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2842

488th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.53

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	HR	RBI	TB
1969-05-30	CIN @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	1	1	4
1968-09-27	SF @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1968-08-16	CIN @ CHC Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	1
1968-08-23	NYM @ CIN Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	1
1972-07-02	CIN @ SD Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-09-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	1	0	3	7	0
1969-07-06	CIN @ LAD Gameday	7.2	8	1	1	2	6	1
1969-04-24	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4.2	5	2	2	0	6	0
1975-06-21	CIN @ HOU Gameday	6.0	5	4	4	2	5	1
1966-07-08	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5.1	4	1	1	0	5	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.

Honors

2× All-Star

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