Verne Clemons
St. Louis Browns 1916; St. Louis Cardinals 1919–1924
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .286 | .429 | 10.2 | 30.5 | .198 | 0.0 |
| 1919 | 88 | 270 | 239 | 14 | 63 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 26 | 13 | 4 | 0 | .264 | .336 | .360 | .696 | 114.1 | 111.9 | .335 | 2.1 |
| 1920 | 112 | 378 | 338 | 17 | 95 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 36 | 30 | 12 | 1 | 1 | .281 | .340 | .355 | .695 | 103.7 | 102.6 | .331 | 2.4 |
| 1921 | 117 | 381 | 341 | 29 | 109 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 48 | 33 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .320 | .380 | .396 | .776 | 109.5 | 106.8 | .361 | 2.6 |
| 1922 | 71 | 179 | 160 | 9 | 41 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .256 | .331 | .281 | .613 | 67.3 | 62.7 | .298 | 0.3 |
| 1923 | 57 | 142 | 130 | 6 | 37 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .285 | .345 | .369 | .714 | 90.7 | 89.8 | .335 | 0.6 |
| 1924 | 25 | 58 | 56 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .321 | .345 | .375 | .720 | 93.5 | 94.7 | .332 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924-08-24 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1920-05-31 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1921-09-30 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1920-08-10 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1920-07-09 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-04-12 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-13 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-15 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-16 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-17 | BAL @ CWS 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.