Cliff Bolton
Washington Senators 1931; Washington Senators 1933–1936; Detroit Tigers 1937; Washington Senators 1941
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 23 | 44 | 43 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .273 | .326 | .598 | 54.2 | 58.2 | .275 | 0.0 |
| 1933 | 33 | 46 | 39 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .410 | .500 | .487 | .987 | 169.7 | 165.3 | .463 | 0.6 |
| 1934 | 42 | 160 | 148 | 12 | 40 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .270 | .321 | .365 | .686 | 78.0 | 79.6 | .320 | 0.4 |
| 1935 | 110 | 436 | 375 | 47 | 114 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 55 | 58 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .304 | .399 | .427 | .825 | 119.1 | 116.3 | .387 | 3.3 |
| 1936 | 86 | 315 | 289 | 41 | 84 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 51 | 25 | 12 | 1 | 2 | .291 | .349 | .401 | .751 | 88.6 | 88.9 | .347 | 1.1 |
| 1937 | 27 | 65 | 57 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .354 | .351 | .705 | 80.2 | 77.6 | .334 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .083 | .000 | .083 | -85.1 | -76.3 | .063 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-05-10 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1935-07-19 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1936-05-02 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1936-07-24 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| 1935-05-01 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-04-14 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-15 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-16 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-18 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-19 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.