MLB / Players

Walter Clarkson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 150 lb
BornNovember 3, 1878 · Cambridge, MA, USA
MLB debutJuly 2, 1904
Final gameApril 28, 1908
Seasons5 (1904–1908)

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
0.8
62.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19041327263702031300.269.296.423.719118.2121.4.334-1.1
1905919191100000400.053.053.053.105-85.0-68.1.050-0.4
19063254513822040700.157.157.275.43121.833.3.2002.2
190722363523000301300.086.086.086.171-56.3-46.7.0830.5
190821101000200001.0001.0001.0002.000567.5553.6.961-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19041341212063372543366.35.021.3275.833.38125.253.8-1.1
1905943303040201335146.03.911.1526.852.2075.974.0-0.4
19063216940931353955646151.02.321.2583.813.34122.5117.22.2
1907221257191963237352108.02.671.2312.923.10121.295.40.5
19082100000642103.310.802.4002.705.25222.321.9-0.3

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

G
78
PA
137
AB
132
R
9
H
20
2B
2
3B
4
HR
0
RBI
12
BB
1
SO
27
SB
0
BA
.1515
OBP
.1579
SLG
.2273
OPS
.3852

Pitching

G (P)
78
GS
37
W
18
L
16
SV
2
CG
23
SHO
4
IP
375
SO (P)
178
BB allowed
132
ERA
3.171
WHIP
1.2598
K/9
4.28

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1904-09-21NYY @ MIN Gameday413000003
1904-09-02DET @ NYY Gameday311010203
1904-09-17MIN @ NYY Gameday101010103
1906-08-06NYY @ BAL Gameday311010003
1906-09-04NYY @ BOS Gameday411010003

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1904-08-08NYY @ CLE Gameday7.0522380
1905-10-06NYY @ BOS Gameday8.0730370
1905-09-26BAL @ NYY Gameday6.2630170
1905-04-22MIN @ NYY Gameday9.0730060
1906-04-28NYY @ MIN Gameday9.0510260

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.