Mel Clark
Philadelphia Phillies 1951–1955; Detroit Tigers 1957
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 10 | 31 | 31 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .323 | .323 | .452 | .774 | 104.4 | 109.1 | .343 | 0.1 |
| 1952 | 47 | 167 | 155 | 20 | 52 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 1 | .335 | .364 | .445 | .809 | 125.3 | 125.9 | .368 | 0.8 |
| 1953 | 60 | 212 | 198 | 31 | 59 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .298 | .338 | .389 | .727 | 89.8 | 91.0 | .327 | 0.2 |
| 1954 | 83 | 256 | 233 | 26 | 56 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 17 | 21 | 0 | 1 | .240 | .291 | .352 | .643 | 64.0 | 68.5 | .291 | -0.6 |
| 1955 | 10 | 35 | 32 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .229 | .250 | .479 | 27.5 | 28.5 | .225 | -0.2 |
| 1957 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-07-15 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1951-09-12 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-07-17 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-08-24 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1954-09-22 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-05-16 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-06-15 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-02 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-20 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-24 | PHI @ STL 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.