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Dad Clarke played 7 major-league seasons (1888-1898) as a P (121), OF (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 7 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | 23 | CHN | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .286 | 1.375 | 340 |
| 1891 | 26 | CL6 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .100 | .450 | 32 |
| 1894 | 29 | NY1 | 16 | 37 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | .216 | .617 | 52 |
| 1895 | 30 | NY1 | 37 | 121 | 16 | 29 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 15 | .240 | .565 | 49 |
| 1896 | 31 | NY1 | 49 | 147 | 11 | 30 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 19 | .204 | .486 | 32 |
| 1897 | 32 | NY1|LS3 | 13 | 35 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .229 | .479 | 30 |
| 1898 | 33 | LS3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | 23 | CHN | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 5.06 | 56 |
| 1891 | 26 | CL6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 16 | 6.26 | 59 |
| 1894 | 29 | NY1 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 84 | 15 | 26 | 4.93 | 108 |
| 1895 | 30 | NY1 | 37 | 30 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 281.2 | 67 | 60 | 3.39 | 141 |
| 1896 | 31 | NY1 | 48 | 40 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 351 | 66 | 60 | 4.26 | 102 |
| 1897 | 32 | NY1|LS3 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 85.2 | 17 | 21 | 4.73 | 91 |
| 1898 | 33 | LS3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5.00 | 72 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | P | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 1888 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1891 | P | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 1894 | P | 15 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 1 |
| 1895 | P | 37 | 0 | 13 | 49 | 7 | 6 |
| 1896 | P | 48 | 0 | 12 | 72 | 8 | 1 |
| 1897 | P | 13 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 0 |
| 1898 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Dad Clarke ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #170 | relief pitchers | 1894 | 108 ERA+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.