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John Clarkson played 12 major-league seasons (1882-1894) as a P (531), OF (27), 3B (4), 1B (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1882 | 21 | WOR | 3 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .364 | .909 | 189 |
| 1884 | 23 | CHN | 21 | 84 | 16 | 22 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 16 | .262 | .767 | 141 |
| 1885 | 24 | CHN | 72 | 283 | 34 | 61 | 4 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 44 | .216 | .556 | 82 |
| 1886 | 25 | CHN | 55 | 210 | 21 | 49 | 3 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 38 | .233 | .562 | 74 |
| 1887 | 26 | CHN | 63 | 215 | 40 | 52 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 11 | 25 | .242 | .674 | 89 |
| 1888 | 27 | BSN | 55 | 205 | 20 | 40 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 48 | .195 | .485 | 59 |
| 1889 | 28 | BSN | 73 | 262 | 36 | 54 | 2 | 23 | 8 | 11 | 59 | .206 | .524 | 50 |
| 1890 | 29 | BSN | 45 | 173 | 18 | 43 | 2 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 31 | .249 | .638 | 90 |
| 1891 | 30 | BSN | 55 | 187 | 28 | 42 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 18 | 50 | .225 | .597 | 79 |
| 1892 | 31 | BSN|CL4 | 45 | 158 | 15 | 27 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 39 | .171 | .434 | 35 |
| 1893 | 32 | CL4 | 37 | 131 | 18 | 27 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 20 | .206 | .535 | 45 |
| 1894 | 33 | CL4 | 22 | 55 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 9 | .200 | .533 | 32 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1882 | 21 | WOR | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 4.50 | 64 |
| 1884 | 23 | CHN | 14 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 118 | 102 | 25 | 2.14 | 139 |
| 1885 | 24 | CHN | 70 | 70 | 53 | 16 | 0 | 623 | 308 | 97 | 1.85 | 152 |
| 1886 | 25 | CHN | 55 | 55 | 36 | 17 | 0 | 466.2 | 313 | 86 | 2.41 | 136 |
| 1887 | 26 | CHN | 60 | 59 | 38 | 21 | 0 | 523 | 237 | 92 | 3.08 | 131 |
| 1888 | 27 | BSN | 54 | 54 | 33 | 20 | 0 | 483.1 | 223 | 119 | 2.76 | 103 |
| 1889 | 28 | BSN | 73 | 72 | 49 | 19 | 1 | 620 | 284 | 203 | 2.73 | 147 |
| 1890 | 29 | BSN | 44 | 44 | 26 | 18 | 0 | 383 | 138 | 140 | 3.27 | 109 |
| 1891 | 30 | BSN | 55 | 51 | 33 | 19 | 3 | 460.2 | 141 | 154 | 2.79 | 120 |
| 1892 | 31 | BSN|CL4 | 45 | 44 | 25 | 16 | 1 | 389 | 139 | 132 | 2.48 | 133 |
| 1893 | 32 | CL4 | 36 | 35 | 16 | 17 | 0 | 295 | 62 | 95 | 4.45 | 105 |
| 1894 | 33 | CL4 | 22 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 150.2 | 28 | 46 | 4.42 | 121 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1882 | P | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 1882 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1884 | P | 14 | 0 | 6 | 38 | 11 | 5 |
| 1884 | OF | 8 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 1884 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1884 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1885 | P | 70 | 0 | 26 | 174 | 20 | 8 |
| 1885 | OF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1885 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 | P | 55 | 0 | 19 | 114 | 19 | 3 |
| 1886 | OF | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1887 | P | 60 | 0 | 34 | 125 | 7 | 5 |
| 1887 | OF | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1888 | P | 54 | 0 | 22 | 117 | 19 | 3 |
| 1888 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1889 | P | 73 | 0 | 36 | 172 | 27 | 8 |
| 1889 | OF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1889 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1890 | P | 44 | 0 | 21 | 72 | 14 | 3 |
| 1890 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1891 | P | 55 | 0 | 27 | 114 | 13 | 2 |
| 1891 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1892 | P | 45 | 0 | 11 | 87 | 15 | 4 |
| 1893 | P | 36 | 0 | 15 | 82 | 7 | 1 |
| 1893 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1894 | P | 22 | 0 | 3 | 42 | 9 | 2 |
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.
John Clarkson won: Pitching Triple Crown 1889 (NL).
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.