Royce Clayton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 2, 1970 · Burbank, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1991

Final gameSeptember 30, 2007

Seasons17 (1991–2007)

San Francisco Giants 1991–1995; St. Louis Cardinals 1996–1998; Texas Rangers 1998–2000; Chicago White Sox 2001–2002; Milwaukee Brewers 2003; Colorado Rockies 2004; Arizona Diamondbacks 2005; Cincinnati Reds 2006; Washington Nationals 2006; Boston Red Sox 2007; Toronto Blue Jays 2007

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified batters

137

17.4

502

454

3.7

1.2

117

2.5

14.3

1.9

RBI

3.7

9.9

54.7

76.4

15.5

.258

9.9

OBP

.307

5.6

SLG

.341

3.1

OPS

.648

3.1

wRC+

65.8

3.1

OPS+

68.0

3.1

wOBA

.289

3.1

sWAR

0.1

of 162 qualified 2006 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

76.1

6.7

OPS+

77.0

6.9

sWAR

12.8

89.5

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
1991	9	27	26	0	3	1	0	0	2	1	6	0	0	.115	.148	.154	.302	-22.4	-13.5	.145	-0.3
1992	98	352	321	31	72	7	4	4	24	26	63	8	4	.224	.281	.308	.589	67.7	71.1	.274	0.3
1993	153	607	549	54	155	21	5	6	70	38	91	11	10	.282	.331	.372	.702	92.5	91.7	.320	2.2
1994	108	423	385	38	91	14	6	3	30	30	74	23	3	.236	.295	.327	.623	66.1	66.4	.283	0.1
1995	138	557	509	56	124	29	3	5	58	38	109	24	9	.244	.298	.342	.640	70.6	70.7	.292	0.5
1996	129	531	491	64	136	20	4	6	35	33	89	33	15	.277	.321	.371	.692	82.8	83.8	.311	1.1
1997	154	619	576	75	153	39	5	9	61	33	109	30	10	.266	.306	.398	.704	80.8	84.0	.312	1.3
1998	142	608	541	89	136	31	2	9	53	53	83	24	11	.251	.319	.366	.685	79.4	78.5	.310	1.1
1999	133	520	465	69	134	21	5	14	52	39	100	8	6	.288	.346	.445	.792	97.5	97.3	.349	2.2
2000	148	573	513	70	124	21	5	14	54	42	92	11	7	.242	.301	.384	.685	68.5	70.0	.304	0.4
2001	135	485	433	62	114	21	4	9	60	33	72	10	7	.263	.315	.393	.708	81.3	82.9	.311	1.2
2002	112	376	342	51	86	14	2	7	35	20	67	5	1	.251	.295	.365	.661	72.4	73.6	.293	0.5
2003	146	543	483	49	110	16	1	11	39	49	92	5	2	.228	.301	.333	.634	60.6	65.6	.282	-0.2
2004	146	652	574	95	160	36	4	8	54	48	125	10	5	.279	.338	.397	.735	80.9	80.0	.330	1.3
2005	143	573	522	59	141	28	4	2	44	38	105	13	3	.270	.320	.351	.670	73.1	73.3	.305	0.7
2006	137	502	454	49	117	30	1	2	40	30	85	14	6	.258	.307	.341	.648	65.8	68.0	.289	0.1
2007	77	216	195	24	48	14	0	1	12	14	53	2	1	.246	.296	.333	.629	65.7	66.6	.285	0.1

Career totals

2,108

191st-most career G

8,164

268th-most career PA

7,379

235th-most career AB

935

439th-most career R

1,904

351st-most career H

363

281st-most career 2B

110

RBI

723

565

1,415

107th-most career SO

231

284th-most career SB

.2580

OBP

.3123

SLG

.3669

OPS

.6792

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	TB
2005-06-17	AZ @ CLE Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	1	8
2000-04-07	TOR @ TEX Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
2000-04-23	MIN @ TEX Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	1	3	7
2005-07-19	MIA @ AZ Gameday	4	0	4	1	1	0	3	7
2004-05-11	PIT @ COL Gameday	5	2	4	3	0	0	0	7

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× All-Star

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