Zack Clayton
Philadelphia Bacharach Giants 1934; Chicago American Giants 1935; Chicago American Giants 1937; New York Black Yankees 1943–1944; Baltimore Elite Giants 1945
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 74 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 18 | 69 | 58 | 11 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .293 | .406 | .310 | .716 | 111.0 | 102.3 | .360 | 0.2 |
| 1935 | 26 | 86 | 84 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .186 | .214 | .400 | 7.8 | 0.7 | .184 | -1.0 |
| 1937 | 17 | 36 | 30 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .265 | .167 | .431 | 42.3 | 21.5 | .224 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 24 | 100 | 94 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .253 | .309 | .561 | 53.4 | 49.5 | .267 | -0.5 |
| 1944 | 18 | 70 | 58 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .224 | .318 | .328 | .646 | 78.8 | 73.2 | .314 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .385 | .364 | .748 | 114.2 | 110.2 | .367 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2.3 | 7.71 | 3.429 | 11.57 | 10.94 | 244.4 | 58.0 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-06-03 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1934-07-23 | PBG @ TIC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1943-06-20 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-08-01 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1935-07-20 | CAG @ TIC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-07-25 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1937-07-27 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 1.1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1934-05-20 | PBG @ ND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-05-20 | PBG @ ND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-05-26 | PBG @ TIC 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.