Walter Clarkson
New York Highlanders 1904–1906; Cleveland Naps 1907; New York Highlanders 1907; Cleveland Naps 1908
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | 13 | 27 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .296 | .423 | .719 | 118.2 | 121.4 | .334 | -1.1 |
| 1905 | 9 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .053 | .053 | .053 | .105 | -85.0 | -68.1 | .050 | -0.4 |
| 1906 | 32 | 54 | 51 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .157 | .157 | .275 | .431 | 21.8 | 33.3 | .200 | 2.2 |
| 1907 | 22 | 36 | 35 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .086 | .086 | .086 | .171 | -56.3 | -46.7 | .083 | 0.5 |
| 1908 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 567.5 | 553.6 | .961 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 63 | 37 | 25 | 43 | 3 | 66.3 | 5.02 | 1.327 | 5.83 | 3.38 | 125.2 | 53.8 | -1.1 |
| 1905 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 20 | 13 | 35 | 1 | 46.0 | 3.91 | 1.152 | 6.85 | 2.20 | 75.9 | 74.0 | -0.4 |
| 1906 | 32 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 135 | 39 | 55 | 64 | 6 | 151.0 | 2.32 | 1.258 | 3.81 | 3.34 | 122.5 | 117.2 | 2.2 |
| 1907 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 96 | 32 | 37 | 35 | 2 | 108.0 | 2.67 | 1.231 | 2.92 | 3.10 | 121.2 | 95.4 | 0.5 |
| 1908 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3.3 | 10.80 | 2.400 | 2.70 | 5.25 | 222.3 | 21.9 | -0.3 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-09-21 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1904-09-02 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1904-09-17 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1906-08-06 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1906-09-04 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-08-08 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1905-10-06 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1905-09-26 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 6.2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1905-04-22 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1906-04-28 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 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.