Category profile
- Dominance
- 86
- Peak
- 92
- Longevity
- 92
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 9 | |
| 1985 | 7 | |
| 1986 | 24 | |
| 1987 | 20 | |
| 1988 | 18 | |
| 1989 | 17 | |
| 1990 | 21 | |
| 1991 | 18 | |
| 1992 | 18 | |
| 1993 | 11 | |
| 1994 | 9 | |
| 1995 | 10 | |
| 1996 | 10 | |
| 1997 | 21 | |
| 1998 | 20 | |
| 1999 | 14 | |
| 2000 | 13 | |
| 2001 | 20 | |
| 2002 | 13 | |
| 2003 | 17 | |
| 2004 | 18 | |
| 2005 | 13 | |
| 2006 | 7 | |
| 2007 | 6 |
Data sources
- MLB
- Baseball Reference
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Roger Clemens ranks #15 in Baseball
Roger Clemens ranks 15th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 254th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 89.6 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 86, Peak 92, Longevity 92, Honours 86, Statistics 94. Those categories are normalised against the full Baseball reference universe of 262 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1984–2007 with 24 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1986, which sets the Peak component at 92. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes cy young awards 7, career wins 354, strikeouts 4672, world series titles 2.
Immediately ahead sits Warren Spahn on 89.1, a gap of -0.5 points. Directly behind is Rickey Henderson on 89.1. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Roger Clemens GOAT Score explained
- Dominance86/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Clemens stood above the field while competing. Scored 86/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak92/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1986. Scored 92/100.
- Longevity92/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 23 years of competition and 24 recorded seasons. Scored 92/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Clemens comparisons
Roger Clemens — frequently asked
- Is Roger Clemens the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Roger Clemens ranks 15th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 89.6, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Roger Clemens's GOAT Score?
- 89.6 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 86 (25%), Peak 92 (20%), Longevity 92 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Roger Clemens rank all time?
- 254th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 15th within Baseball.
- Roger Clemens vs Warren Spahn: who ranks higher?
- Roger Clemens, on 89.6 against Warren Spahn's 89.1 — a margin of 0.5 points.