Fred Clarke

1894–1915 · 21 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1872

Hall of Fame 1945

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1894	Louisville Colonels	NL	76	345	314	55	86	11	7	7	48	26	27	26	.274	.337	.420	.758	0.6
1895	Louisville Colonels	NL	132	597	550	96	191	21	5	4	82	34	24	40	.347	.396	.425	.821	4.1
1896	Louisville Colonels	NL	131	581	517	96	168	15	18	9	79	43	34	34	.325	.392	.476	.868	4.1
1897	Louisville Colonels	NL	130	599	526	122	205	30	13	6	67	45	26	59	.390	.461	.530	.992	7.1
1898	Louisville Colonels	NL	149	667	599	116	184	23	12	3	47	48	21	40	.307	.373	.401	.774	5.2
1899	Louisville Colonels	NL	149	681	606	122	206	23	9	5	70	49	18	49	.340	.404	.432	.836	5.7
1900	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	106	466	399	84	110	15	12	3	32	51	20	21	.276	.368	.396	.764	3.0
1901	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	129	601	527	118	171	24	15	6	60	51	44	23	.324	.395	.461	.856	5.6
1902	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	113	530	459	103	145	27	14	2	53	51	38	29	.316	.401	.449	.850	5.2
1903	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	104	486	427	88	150	32	15	5	70	41	27	21	.351	.414	.532	.946	6.1
1904	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	72	313	278	51	85	7	11	0	25	22	25	11	.306	.367	.410	.777	3.1
1905	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	141	604	525	95	157	18	15	2	51	55	41	24	.299	.368	.402	.770	6.0
1906	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	118	478	417	69	129	14	13	1	39	40	25	18	.309	.371	.412	.784	5.0
1907	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	148	593	501	97	145	18	13	2	59	68	32	37	.289	.383	.389	.772	7.8
1908	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	151	644	551	83	146	18	15	2	53	65	23	24	.265	.349	.363	.712	7.3
1909	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	152	660	550	97	158	16	11	3	68	80	36	31	.287	.384	.373	.756	8.4
1910	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	123	515	429	57	113	23	9	2	63	53	23	12	.263	.350	.373	.723	4.4
1911	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	110	460	392	73	127	25	13	5	49	53	27	10	.324	.407	.492	.900	5.0
1913	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	9	14	13	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.077	.077	.154	.231	-0.3
1914	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1
1915	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0.0
Career	21 seasons		2246	9838	8584	1622	2678	361	220	67	1015	875	511	509	.312	.386	.429	.815	93.6

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

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Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League).

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