MLB / Players

Donn Clendenon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 209 lb

BornJuly 15, 1935 · Neosho, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1961

Final gameAugust 5, 1972

Seasons12 (1961–1972)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1961–1968; Montreal Expos 1969; New York Mets 1969–1971; St. Louis Cardinals 1972

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified batters

158

81.8

645

68.2

584

73.9

45.5

150

63.6

37.5

68.2

69.3

RBI

90.9

54.5

163

1.1

60.2

.257

45.5

OBP

.309

34.1

SLG

.399

59.1

OPS

.708

48.9

wRC+

114.6

46.6

OPS+

113.2

48.9

wOBA

.328

46.6

sWAR

1.8

of 89 qualified 1968 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.0

OPS+

116.7

74.1

sWAR

16.4

91.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1961	9	40	35	7	11	1	1	0	2	5	10	0	0	.314	.400	.400	.800	123.2	115.1	.370	0.2
1962	80	251	222	39	67	8	5	7	28	26	58	16	4	.302	.376	.477	.853	129.6	129.0	.381	1.2
1963	154	614	563	65	155	28	7	15	57	39	136	22	13	.275	.326	.430	.756	118.0	116.5	.340	2.0
1964	133	492	457	53	129	23	8	12	64	26	96	12	8	.282	.321	.446	.767	115.5	115.1	.342	1.5
1965	162	676	612	89	184	32	14	14	96	48	128	9	9	.301	.351	.467	.818	129.4	129.3	.363	3.3
1966	155	629	571	80	171	22	10	28	98	52	142	8	7	.299	.358	.520	.878	143.7	141.5	.385	4.1
1967	131	518	478	46	119	15	2	13	56	34	107	4	4	.249	.298	.370	.668	89.7	90.3	.307	-0.1
1968	158	645	584	63	150	20	6	17	87	47	163	10	3	.257	.309	.399	.708	114.6	113.2	.328	1.8
1969	110	362	331	45	82	11	1	16	51	25	94	3	4	.248	.303	.432	.735	99.6	103.6	.330	0.4
1970	121	443	396	65	114	18	3	22	97	39	91	4	1	.288	.348	.515	.863	127.7	130.0	.380	2.2
1971	88	288	263	29	65	10	0	11	37	21	78	1	2	.247	.302	.411	.713	100.0	102.9	.323	0.3
1972	61	154	136	13	26	4	0	4	9	17	37	1	2	.191	.279	.309	.588	61.7	68.8	.269	-0.5

Career totals

1,362

5,112

4,648

594

1,273

192

159

RBI

682

379

1,140

274th-most career SO

.2739

OBP

.3284

SLG

.4423

OPS

.7707

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
1971-05-17	NYM @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	3	1	10
1965-06-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1966-07-01	PIT @ NYM Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1969-09-02	NYM @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1964-08-14	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	1	4	2	1	0	0	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-17	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-21	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-22	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-10	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-09-30	PIT @ ATL 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.

Honors

1× World Series MVP

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