Nig Clarke

Jay Justin Clarke

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: December 15, 1882 in Amherstburg, Ontario, CAN (All Transactions)
Debut: April 26, 1905
Teams (by GP): Naps/Browns/Phillies/Tigers/Pirates 1905-1920

Final Game: April 24, 1920
Died: June 15, 1949 in River Rouge, MI
Buried: Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, MI
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1905	TOT	AL	22	C	44			227	178	41	8	3	.965	4.98	.971	6.40	13	40	30	43%	45%
1905	CLE	AL	22	C	5			9	7	2	0	0	1.000	1.80	.971	6.40	2	3	1	25%	44%
1905	DET	AL	22	C	2			14	12	2	0	0	1.000	7.00	.971	6.40	1	3	2	40%	45%
1905	CLE	AL	22	C	37			204	159	37	8	3	.961	5.30	.971	6.40	10	34	27	44%	45%
1906	CLE	AL	23	C	54			274	211	58	5	4	.982	4.98	.961	5.98	2	54	47	47%	45%
1907	CLE	AL	24	C	115			613	470	119	24	9	.961	5.12	.968	6.11	25	120	83	41%	44%
1908	CLE	AL	25	C	90			449	327	108	14	6	.969	4.83	.969	6.28	12	64	74	54%	45%
1909	CLE	AL	26	C	44			270	192	65	13	2	.952	5.84	.969	6.46	13	50	49	49%	45%
1910	CLE	AL	27	C	17			117	82	32	3	0	.974	6.71	.968	6.88	1	25	22	47%	45%
1911	SLB	AL	28	C	73			391	251	111	29	15	.926	4.96	.965	6.80	12	130	84	39%	45%
1911	SLB	AL	28	1B	4			41	37	1	3	2	.927	9.50	.978	10.35
1919	PHI	NL	36	C	22	15	14	96	63	30	3	1	.969	4.23	.972	5.39	3	14	20	59%	44%
1920	PIT	NL	37	C	3	2	2	16	12	4	0	0	1.000	5.33	.968	5.30	0	2	1	33%	46%
	9 Seasons			C	462	17	16	2453	1786	568	99	40	.960	5.10	.967	6.29	81	499	410	45%	45%
	1 Season			1B	4			41	37	1	3	2	.927	9.50	.978	10.35
	9 Seasons			TOT	466	17	16	2494	1823	569	102	42	.959	5.13	.968	6.32	81	499	410	45%	45%

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	1B	PH	PR
1905	CLE	AL	22	42		42		42	0
1905	DET	AL	22	3		3		2	0
1906	CLE	AL	23	57		57		54	0
1907	CLE	AL	24	120		120		115	0
1908	CLE	AL	25	97		97		90	0
1909	CLE	AL	26	55		55		44	0
1910	CLE	AL	27	21		21		17	0
1911	SLB	AL	28	82		82		73	4
1919	PHI	NL	36	26	15	26	22	22	0	5	0
1920	PIT	NL	37	3	2	3	2	2	0	1	0
	9 Seasons			506	17	506	24	461	4	6	0

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1907 AL 115 (1st) 1908 AL 90 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1907 AL 470 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1907 AL 119 (3rd) 1911 AL 111 (4th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1907 AL 24 (2nd) 1908 AL 14 (4th) 1911 AL 29 (2nd)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1905 AL 13 (1st) 1907 AL 25 (1st) 1908 AL 12 (2nd) 1909 AL 13 (2nd) 1911 AL 12 (5th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1907 AL 120 (1st) 1911 AL 130 (2nd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1907 AL 83 (3rd) 1908 AL 74 (5th) 1911 AL 84 (3rd) Career 410 (97th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1908 AL 53.6 (1st) 1909 AL 49.5 (3rd) 1919 NL 58.8 (1st) Career 45.1 (93rd)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1907 AL 5.12 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1907 AL .961 (4th)	Oldest s c a p y 1919 NL born 1882-12-15 (5th) 1920 NL born 1882-12-15 (4th)

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