Roger Clemens Stats

Roger Clemens was born on Saturday, August 4, 1962, in Dayton, Ohio. Clemens was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on May 15, 1984, with the Boston Red Sox. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Roger Clemens baseball stats page.

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"I got one (Cy Young Award) for Koby and Kory. I got one for Kasy, and I needed one for Kody. It kind of takes the pressure off dad a little bit." - Clemens, Roger. AP Wire. Cy Young Press Conference. 28 October 1997. [Roger Clemens Quotes]

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Roger 'The Rocket' Clemens Autograph on a 1992 Topps Baseball Card (#405)

Roger 'The Rocket' Clemens Autograph on a 1992 Topps Baseball Card (#405)

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Birth Name:   William Roger Clemens (Twitter: @rogerclemens)
Nickname:   The Rocket
Born On:   08-04-1962  (Leo)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Dayton, Ohio
Year of Death Data Died On:   Still Living (1,000 Oldest Living)
Place of Death Data Died In:   Still Living
Cemetery:   n/a
High School:   Spring Woods High School (Houston, TX)
College:   University of Texas at Austin
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-04   Player Weight Chart Weight:   235
First Game:   05-15-1984 (Age 21)
Last Game:   10-07-2007
Draft:   1983 : 1st Round (19th) / Signing Bonus = $121,000

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Roger Clemens Pitching Stats

1984 22 Red Sox 21 20 0 9 4 .692 4.32 5 1 0 133.1 575 146 64 67 13 29 3 126 4 2 0 -
1985 23 Red Sox 15 15 0 7 5 .583 3.29 3 1 0 98.1 407 83 36 38 5 37 0 74 1 3 3 0
1986 24 Red Sox 33 33 0 24 4 .857 2.48 10 1 0 254.0 997 179 70 77 21 67 0 238 11 4 3 0
1987 25 Red Sox 36 36 0 20 9 .690 2.97 18 7 0 281.2 1,157 248 93 100 19 83 4 256 4 9 3 0
1988 26 Red Sox 35 35 0 18 12 .600 2.93 14 8 0 264.0 1,063 217 86 93 17 62 4 291 4 6 7 0
1989 27 Red Sox 35 35 0 17 11 .607 3.13 8 3 0 253.1 1,044 215 88 101 20 93 5 230 7 8 0 0
1990 28 Red Sox 31 31 0 21 6 .778 1.93 7 4 0 228.1 920 193 49 59 7 54 3 209 8 7 0 0
1991 29 Red Sox 35 35 0 18 10 .643 2.62 13 4 0 271.1 1,077 219 79 93 15 65 12 241 6 5 0 0
1992 30 Red Sox 32 32 0 18 11 .621 2.41 11 5 0 246.2 989 203 66 80 11 62 5 208 3 9 0 0
1993 31 Red Sox 29 29 0 11 14 .440 4.46 2 1 0 191.2 808 175 95 99 17 67 4 160 3 11 1 0
1994 32 Red Sox 24 24 0 9 7 .563 2.85 3 1 0 170.2 692 124 54 62 15 71 1 168 4 4 0 0
1995 33 Red Sox 23 23 0 10 5 .667 4.18 0 0 0 140.0 623 141 65 70 15 60 0 132 9 14 0 0
1996 34 Red Sox 34 34 0 10 13 .435 3.63 6 2 0 242.2 1,032 216 98 106 19 106 2 257 8 4 1 0
1997 35 Blue Jays 34 34 0 21 7 .750 2.05 9 3 0 264.0 1,044 204 60 65 9 68 1 292 4 12 0 0
1998 36 Blue Jays 33 33 0 20 6 .769 2.65 5 3 0 234.2 961 169 69 78 11 88 0 271 6 7 0 0
1999 37 Yankees 30 30 0 14 10 .583 4.60 1 1 0 187.2 822 185 96 101 20 90 0 163 8 9 0 0
2000 38 Yankees 32 32 0 13 8 .619 3.70 1 0 0 204.1 878 184 84 96 26 84 0 188 2 10 1 0
2001 39 Yankees 33 33 0 20 3 .870 3.51 0 0 0 220.1 918 205 86 94 19 72 1 213 14 5 0 0
2002 40 Yankees 29 29 0 13 6 .684 4.35 0 0 0 180.0 768 172 87 94 18 63 6 192 14 7 0 0
2003 41 Yankees 33 33 0 17 9 .654 3.91 1 1 0 211.2 878 199 92 99 24 58 1 190 5 5 0 0
2004 42 Astros 33 33 0 18 4 .818 2.98 0 0 0 214.1 878 169 71 76 15 79 5 218 5 6 0 0
2005 43 Astros 32 32 0 13 8 .619 1.87 1 0 0 211.1 838 151 44 51 11 62 5 185 3 3 1 0
2006 44 Astros 19 19 0 7 6 .538 2.30 0 0 0 113.1 451 89 29 34 7 29 1 102 3 4 0 0
2007 45 Yankees 18 17 0 6 6 .500 4.18 0 0 0 99.0 420 99 46 52 9 31 0 68 7 5 0 0
24 Years 709 707 0 354 184 .658 3.12 118 46 0 4,916.2 20,240 4,185 1,707 1,885 363 1,580 63 4,672 143 159 20 0

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Roger Clemens Hitting Stats

1984 22 Red Sox 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1985 23 Red Sox 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1986 24 Red Sox 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1987 25 Red Sox 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1988 26 Red Sox 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1989 27 Red Sox 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1990 28 Red Sox 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1991 29 Red Sox 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1992 30 Red Sox 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1993 31 Red Sox 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1994 32 Red Sox 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1995 33 Red Sox 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1996 34 Red Sox 34 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000
1997 35 Blue Jays 34 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .667 1.000
1998 36 Blue Jays 33 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .200 .000
1999 37 Yankees 30 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2000 38 Yankees 32 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2001 39 Yankees 33 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2002 40 Yankees 29 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 .667 .500 1.000
2003 41 Yankees 33 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2004 42 Astros 33 72 1 12 1 0 0 0 7 3 0 24 3 0 0 2 .167 .200 .181
2005 43 Astros 32 58 2 12 2 0 0 0 4 5 0 18 5 0 1 1 .207 .281 .241
2006 44 Astros 19 27 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 11 7 0 1 0 .074 .194 .111
2007 45 Yankees 18 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500
24 Years 709 179 5 31 6 0 0 0 12 13 0 61 18 1 2 3 .173 .236 .207

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Roger Clemens Fielding Stats

1984 Red Sox P 21 20 400 25 1.2 25 11 14 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.69
1985 Red Sox P 15 15 295 21 1.4 21 12 9 0 1 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.92
1986 Red Sox P 33 33 762 52 1.6 48 27 21 4 0 n/a n/a n/a .923 1.70
1987 Red Sox P 36 36 845 40 1.1 40 15 25 0 1 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.28
1988 Red Sox P 35 35 792 35 1.0 34 17 17 1 1 n/a n/a n/a .971 1.16
1989 Red Sox P 35 35 760 44 1.3 44 17 27 0 1 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.56
1990 Red Sox P 31 31 685 51 1.6 49 23 26 2 1 n/a n/a n/a .961 1.93
1991 Red Sox P 35 35 814 62 1.8 61 31 30 1 1 n/a n/a n/a .984 2.02
1992 Red Sox P 32 32 740 45 1.4 44 19 25 1 0 n/a n/a n/a .978 1.61
1993 Red Sox P 29 29 575 32 1.1 31 11 20 1 1 n/a n/a n/a .969 1.46
1994 Red Sox P 24 24 512 29 1.2 27 8 19 2 2 n/a n/a n/a .931 1.42
1995 Red Sox P 23 23 420 33 1.4 32 13 19 1 1 n/a n/a n/a .970 2.06
1996 Red Sox P 34 34 728 35 1.0 33 10 23 2 2 n/a n/a n/a .943 1.22
1997 Blue Jays P 34 34 792 51 1.5 50 11 39 1 1 n/a n/a n/a .980 1.70
1998 Blue Jays P 33 33 704 35 1.1 34 7 27 1 1 n/a n/a n/a .971 1.30
1999 Yankees P 30 30 563 46 1.5 45 15 30 1 2 n/a n/a n/a .978 2.16
2000 Yankees P 32 32 613 48 1.5 46 14 32 2 2 n/a n/a n/a .958 2.03
2001 Yankees P 33 33 661 46 1.4 44 11 33 2 3 n/a n/a n/a .957 1.80
2002 Yankees P 29 29 540 29 1.0 29 12 17 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.45
2003 Yankees P 33 33 635 40 1.2 39 7 32 1 2 n/a n/a n/a .975 1.66
2004 Astros P 33 33 643 36 1.1 36 12 24 0 2 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.51
2005 Astros P 32 32 633 45 1.4 44 8 36 1 1 n/a n/a n/a .978 1.88
2006 Astros P 19 19 339 20 1.1 19 4 15 1 3 n/a n/a n/a .950 1.51
2007 Yankees P 18 17 297 19 1.1 19 4 15 0 2 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.73
P Totals 709 707 14,748 919 1.3 894 319 575 25 31 n/a n/a n/a .973 1.64
24 Years 709 707 14,748 919 1.3 894 319 575 25 31 n/a n/a n/a .973 1.64

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Roger Clemens Miscellaneous Stats

1984 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.34 8.51 1.96
1985 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.00 6.77 3.39
1986 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.55 8.43 2.37
1987 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.08 8.18 2.65
1988 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.69 9.92 2.11
1989 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.47 8.17 3.30
1990 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.87 8.24 2.13
1991 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.71 7.99 2.16
1992 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.35 7.59 2.26
1993 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.39 7.51 3.15
1994 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.37 8.86 3.74
1995 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.20 8.49 3.86
1996 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.42 9.53 3.93
1997 Blue Jays 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.29 9.95 2.32
1998 Blue Jays 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.08 10.39 3.37
1999 Yankees 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 1.3 0.0 1.81 7.82 4.32
2000 Yankees 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 3.0 0.0 2.24 8.28 3.70
2001 Yankees 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0.0 2.96 8.70 2.94
2002 Yankees 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 3.0 3.0 3.05 9.60 3.15
2003 Yankees 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0.0 3.28 8.08 2.47
2004 Astros 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 3.0 10.3 2.76 9.15 3.32
2005 Astros 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 3.2 14.5 2.98 7.88 2.64
2006 Astros 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 2.5 0.0 3.52 8.10 2.30
2007 Yankees 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.19 6.18 2.82
24 Years 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 2.9 14.9 2.96 8.55 2.89

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Roger Clemens Miscellaneous Items of Interest

1984 Boston Red Sox 21 $130,000.00 - -
1985 Boston Red Sox 21 $140,000.00 - -
1986 Boston Red Sox 21 $340,000.00 Stats Stats
1987 Boston Red Sox 21 $650,000.00 - -
1988 Boston Red Sox 21 $1,350,000.00 Stats -
1989 Boston Red Sox 21 $2,300,000.00 - -
1990 Boston Red Sox 21 $2,600,000.00 Stats -
1991 Boston Red Sox 21 $2,700,000.00 Stats -
1992 Boston Red Sox 21 $4,705,250.00 Stats -
1993 Boston Red Sox 21 $4,655,250.00 - -
1994 Boston Red Sox 21 $5,155,250.00 - n/a
1995 Boston Red Sox 21 $5,655,250.00 - -
1996 Boston Red Sox 21 $5,500,000.00 - -
1997 Toronto Blue Jays 21 $8,400,000.00 Stats -
1998 Toronto Blue Jays 21 $8,550,000.00 Stats -
1999 New York Yankees 12, 22 $8,250,000.00 - Stats
2000 New York Yankees 22 $6,350,000.00 - Stats
2001 New York Yankees 22 $10,300,000.00 Stats Stats
2002 New York Yankees 22 $10,300,000.00 - -
2003 New York Yankees 22 $10,100,000.00 Stats Stats
2004 Houston Astros 22 $5,000,000.00 Stats -
2005 Houston Astros 22 $18,000,000.00 Stats Stats
2006 Houston Astros 22 $12,200,000.00 - -
2007 New York Yankees 22 $17,400,000.00 - -

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William Roger Clemens was a Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Boston Red Sox (1984-1996), Toronto Blue Jays (1997-1998), New York Yankees (1999-2003), Houston Astros (2004-2006), and New York Yankees (2007). When the Rocket, Roger's nickname, made his big league debut on May 15, 1984, he became the first Spring Woods High School (Houston, TX) graduate to play in the majors!

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Roger Clemens Rookie Card | 1985 Topps Baseball Card (#181)
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Did you know that Roger Clemens has 192 wins with the Boston Red Sox which ties him with Cy Young for the franchise record? Join Baseball Almanac as we take a look at some additional numbers of interest as they relate one of the most dominant (and debatable) strikeout pitchers in Major League history:

2 - Roger Clemens won two pitching Triple Crowns (lead the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average) with the Toronto Blue Jays - their first (and to date only) winner in team history.

7 - Roger Clemens won the Cy Young Award seven times in his career (1986, 1987, 1991, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004), the most of any pitcher in Major League history.

20 - Roger Clemens was the first pitcher in Major League history to strikeout twenty batters in a nine-inning game when he mowed down twenty Seattle Mariners on April 29, 1986. Ten years later, on September 18, 1996, The Rocket duplicated his record book performance and mowed down twenty Detroit Tigers.

42 - Roger Clemens won his last Cy Young Award with the Houston Astros at the age of forty-two — the oldest pitcher in baseball history to win a Cy Young! It was his first with a National League team, making The Rocket only the fourth pitcher (joining Gaylord Perry, Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson) to win one Cy Young from each league. To see who has duplicated this feat since, visit our Cy Young Award research.

354 - Roger Clemens won 354 games, ninth on the Top 1,000 Career Wins list, and in 2003, The Rocket became only the twenty-first player to join the 300 Wins Club.

4,672 - Roger Clemens had 4,672 strikeouts in his career, third on the Top 1,000 Career Strikeouts list, and in 1998, The Rocket became only the eleventh player to join the 3,000 Strikeouts Club.

There is no debate, Roger Clemens was one of the most dominant pitchers in Major League history. There is debate as to his involvement with the use of performance enhancing drugs. Here is a brief breakdown of those events and we welcome your input on Baseball Fever.

In Jose Canseco's book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, Canseco suggested that Clemens had expert knowledge about steroids and suggested that he used steroids, based on the improvement in his performance after leaving the Red Sox. While not addressing the allegations directly, Clemens stated: "I could care less about the rules" and "I've talked to some friends of his and I've teased them that when you're under house arrest and have ankle bracelets on, you have a lot of time to write a book." Clemens admitted to using the prescription pain reliever Vioxx before it was withdrawn from the market.

Clemens faced steroid scrutiny when it was reported that pitcher Jason Grimsley had named him, as well as Andy Pettitte, as a user of performance enhancing drugs. According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee. McNamee was a personal strength coach for Clemens and Pettitte, hired by Clemens in 1998. At the time of the Grimsley revelations, McNamee denied knowledge of steroid use by Clemens and Pettitte. Despite initial media reports, the affidavit made no mention of Clemens or Pettitte.

However, Clemens' name was mentioned 82 times in the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball. In the report, McNamee stated that during the 1998, 2000, and 2001 baseball seasons, he injected Clemens with Winstrol. Clemens' attorney Rusty Hardin denied the claims, calling McNamee "a troubled and unreliable witness" who has changed his story five times in an attempt to avoid criminal prosecution. He noted that Clemens has never tested positive in a steroid test. Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, who prepared the report, stated that he relayed the allegations to each athlete implicated in the report and gave them a chance to respond before his findings were published.

On January 6, 2008, Clemens appeared on 60 Minutes to address the allegations. He told Mike Wallace that his longevity in baseball was due to "hard work" rather than illegal substances and denied all of McNamee's assertions that he injected Clemens with steroids, saying that they "never happened". On January 7, Clemens filed a defamation lawsuit against McNamee, claiming that the former trainer lied after being threatened with prosecution. McNamee's attorneys argued that McNamee was compelled to cooperate by federal officials and thus his statements were protected. A federal judge agreed, throwing out all claims related to McNamee's statements to investigators on February 13, 2009 but allowing the case to proceed on statements McNamee made about Clemens to Pettitte.

On February 13, 2008, Clemens appeared before a Congressional committee, along with Brian McNamee, and swore under oath that he did not take steroids; that he did not discuss HGH with McNamee; that he was not at a party at Jose Canseco's where steroids were the topic of conversation; that he was only injected with B-12 and lidocaine; and that he never told Pettitte that he had taken HGH. This last point was in contradiction to testimony Pettitte had given under oath on February 4, 2008, wherein Pettitte said he repeated to McNamee a conversation Pettitte had with Clemens. During this conversation, Pettitte said Clemens had told him that McNamee had injected Clemens with human growth hormone. Pettitte said McNamee reacted angrily, saying that Clemens "shouldn't have done that."

The bipartisan House committee in front of which Clemens appeared, citing seven apparent inconsistencies in Clemens' testimony, recommended that the Justice Department investigate whether Clemens lied under oath about using performance-enhancing drugs. In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens' testimony that he "never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation".

As a result of the Mitchell Report, Clemens has been asked to end his involvement with the Giff Nielsen Day of Golf for Kids charity golf tournament in Houston that he has hosted for four years. As well, his name has been removed from the Houston-based Roger Clemens Institute for Sports Medicine; it was renamed the Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Institute.

After Washington prosecutors showed "a renewed interest in the case in the final months of 2008," a federal grand jury was convened in January 2009 to hear evidence of Clemens' possible perjury before Congress. The grand jury indicted Clemens on August 19, 2010 on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. The indictment charged Clemens with one count of obstruction of Congress, three counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury in connection with his February 2008 testimony.

His first trial began on July 13, 2011, but on the second day of testimony the judge in the case declared a mistrial over prosecutorial misconduct after prosecutors showed the jury prejudicial evidence they had been told not to show. Clemens was subsequently retried. The verdict from his second trial came in on June 18, 2012. Clemens was found not guilty on all six counts of lying to Congress in 2008, when he testified that he never took performance-enhancing drugs.

Roger Clemens holds the American League Championship Series record for strikeouts in a game when he fanned 15 batters in a 1-hit (Al Martin, 7th Inning) shutout of the Seattle Mariners in Game 4 of the 2000 ALCS.