Dain Clay
HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb
BornJuly 10, 1919 · Hicksville, OH, USA
MLB debutJune 12, 1943
Final gameSeptember 29, 1946
Seasons4 (1943–1946)
Cincinnati Reds 1943–1946
Percentile snapshot
1946 season — qualified batters
of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 483 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 49 | 106 | 93 | 19 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .269 | .333 | .376 | .710 | 106.9 | 107.6 | .339 | 0.4 |
| 1944 | 110 | 391 | 356 | 51 | 89 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 0 | .250 | .290 | .292 | .582 | 64.7 | 67.9 | .277 | -0.3 |
| 1945 | 153 | 700 | 656 | 81 | 184 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 50 | 37 | 58 | 19 | 0 | .280 | .321 | .335 | .656 | 83.5 | 85.5 | .313 | 1.1 |
| 1946 | 121 | 502 | 435 | 52 | 99 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 53 | 40 | 11 | 0 | .228 | .318 | .280 | .599 | 74.9 | 73.7 | .298 | 0.3 |
Career totals
G
433
PA
1,699
AB
1,540
R
203
H
397
2B
63
3B
6
HR
3
RBI
98
BB
115
SO
130
SB
39
BA
.2578
OBP
.3139
SLG
.3123
OPS
.6262
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-07-29 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-04-27 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1946-06-24 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-06-07 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-08-24 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-04-21 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-22 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-24 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-25 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-27 | CIN @ PIT 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.