Duke Cleveland
Jacksonville Red Caps 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939–1940; Jacksonville Red Caps 1941; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Jacksonville Red Caps 1942; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1946–1947
Percentile snapshot
1940 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 114 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 13 | 63 | 59 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .237 | .274 | .237 | .511 | 56.5 | 48.1 | .249 | -0.2 |
| 1939 | 22 | 88 | 72 | 15 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .341 | .250 | .591 | 85.0 | 73.2 | .304 | 0.0 |
| 1940 | 28 | 121 | 102 | 24 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 0 | .333 | .424 | .382 | .806 | 140.0 | 143.2 | .403 | 0.9 |
| 1941 | 11 | 47 | 43 | 8 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .442 | .489 | .628 | 1.117 | 212.3 | 230.6 | .522 | 0.9 |
| 1942 | 40 | 164 | 147 | 27 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .279 | .350 | .340 | .690 | 107.5 | 105.9 | .333 | 0.5 |
| 1943 | 26 | 100 | 92 | 12 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .239 | .293 | .304 | .597 | 84.8 | 83.4 | .291 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 23 | 101 | 92 | 14 | 23 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .250 | .317 | .337 | .654 | 93.2 | 92.8 | .322 | 0.1 |
| 1947 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -2.8 | -10.2 | .159 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-07-21 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1941-06-01 | JRC @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1942-07-30 | NE @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1940-05-19 | JRC @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1942-06-22 | BBB @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-23 | ATL @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-24 | ATL @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-28 | JRC @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-06-04 | JRC @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-06-05 | JRC @ CAG 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.