MLB / Players

Al Brazle

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 19, 1913 · Loyal, OK, USA

MLB debutJuly 25, 1943

Final gameSeptember 24, 1954

Seasons10 (1943–1954)

St. Louis Cardinals 1943; St. Louis Cardinals 1946–1954

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified pitchers

91.7

76.7

SHO

188

78.3

86.7

58.3

164.7

8.3

ERA

4.10

38.3

WHIP

1.628

K/9

2.57

FIP

4.36

23.3

FIP-

102.6

18.3

ERA+

103.8

33.3

sWAR

1.9

21.7

of 61 qualified 1950 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

120.2

89.8

sWAR

23.3

94.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1943	13	32	32	4	9	1	1	4	0	2	.281	.281	.375	.656	79.1	88.5	.304	3.1
1946	37	54	52	5	11	0	0	2	0	2	.212	.212	.212	.423	-0.5	19.2	.200	1.8
1947	44	68	64	6	14	1	0	5	1	5	.219	.231	.234	.465	10.6	22.5	.216	4.2
1948	45	56	55	5	8	1	0	7	1	9	.145	.161	.164	.324	-30.8	-13.4	.152	1.9
1949	39	83	82	7	11	0	0	2	0	6	.134	.134	.134	.268	-48.5	-28.6	.123	3.7
1950	47	61	61	6	13	0	0	5	0	8	.213	.213	.213	.426	-3.8	11.0	.194	1.9
1951	56	46	46	1	5	0	0	2	0	2	.109	.109	.109	.217	-63.9	-41.3	.099	2.7
1952	46	33	32	1	4	1	0	3	0	2	.125	.125	.156	.281	-44.0	-22.3	.127	2.3
1953	60	17	15	2	5	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.400	.733	86.2	89.9	.325	1.1
1954	58	15	14	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.0	-100.0	.000	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1943	13	9	8	2	0	8	1	74	15	29	26	0	88.0	1.53	1.170	2.66	2.87	85.0	220.1	3.1
1946	37	15	11	10	0	6	2	152	56	55	58	1	153.3	3.29	1.350	3.40	2.76	79.7	105.5	1.8
1947	44	19	14	8	4	7	0	186	53	48	85	7	168.0	2.84	1.393	4.55	2.99	72.0	146.4	4.2
1948	42	23	10	6	1	6	2	171	66	50	55	8	156.3	3.80	1.414	3.17	3.49	85.5	107.4	1.9
1949	39	25	14	8	0	9	1	208	73	61	75	18	206.3	3.18	1.304	3.27	3.91	94.9	129.4	3.7
1950	46	12	11	9	6	3	0	188	75	80	47	12	164.7	4.10	1.628	2.57	4.36	102.6	103.8	1.9
1951	56	8	6	5	7	5	0	139	53	60	66	13	154.3	3.09	1.289	3.85	3.88	98.3	127.9	2.7
1952	46	6	12	5	16	3	1	75	33	42	55	7	109.3	2.72	1.070	4.53	3.42	92.1	136.8	2.3
1953	60	0	6	7	18	0	0	101	43	43	57	8	92.0	4.21	1.565	5.58	3.97	92.5	102.1	1.1
1954	58	0	5	4	8	0	0	93	39	24	30	10	84.3	4.16	1.387	3.20	4.21	101.9	99.2	0.6

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

445

465

453

RBI

.1766

OBP

.1798

SLG

.1921

OPS

.3719

Pitching

G (P)

441

117

303rd-most career SV

SHO

1,377

SO (P)

554

BB allowed

492

ERA

3.308

318th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3649

K/9

3.62

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1943-08-17	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	3	0	4
1947-09-26	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	0	3
1943-08-22	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3
1947-07-05	STL @ CIN Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	1	1	3
1952-07-05	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1947-06-14	LAD @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	3	9
1947-06-29	CIN @ STL Gameday	9.0	8	2	1	3	8
1951-09-13	ATL @ STL Gameday	9.0	9	2	1	3	8
1947-09-10	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	0	7
1948-06-11	ATL @ STL Gameday	7.1	8	6	6	5	7

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.