MLB / Players

Barney Brown

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornOctober 23, 1907 · Hartsville, SC, USA

Seasons13 (1932–1948)

Pollock's Cuban Stars 1932; New York Black Yankees 1935–1939; Philadelphia Stars 1942–1948

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

25.4

151

18.8

121

13.8

20.3

17.4

13.8

22.5

RBI

11.6

39.1

62.3

18.1

31.9

.306

82.6

OBP

.440

97.8

SLG

.380

OPS

.820

81.2

wRC+

122.7

OPS+

119.9

65.9

wOBA

.406

87.7

sWAR

2.5

67.4

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 139 PA)

1947 season — qualified pitchers

3.9

5.3

6.6

73.7

39.5

6.6

SHO

18.4

94.7

92.1

98.7

1.3

89.5

68.0

3.9

ERA

4.24

19.7

WHIP

1.382

39.5

K/9

3.84

46.1

FIP

4.02

28.9

FIP-

97.3

43.4

ERA+

97.7

23.7

sWAR

0.0

5.3

of 77 qualified 1947 pitchers (min 59 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

17.0

92.2

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	21	67	57	5	16	3	1	0	5	8	2	1	.281	.369	.368	.738	106.0	103.9	.360	0.3
1935	9	25	25	3	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	.280	.280	.280	.560	56.6	53.1	.254	0.0
1936	17	34	29	6	8	0	1	0	1	5	0	0	.276	.382	.345	.727	94.0	86.9	.352	1.2
1937	25	74	63	9	25	3	2	1	18	8	0	1	.397	.465	.556	1.020	154.0	161.6	.458	1.6
1938	24	77	67	7	16	2	0	0	10	8	1	0	.239	.329	.269	.598	70.2	59.4	.294	1.8
1939	3	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	-33.4	-64.5	.095	0.3
1942	34	82	72	9	16	2	0	0	4	7	1	1	.222	.291	.250	.541	62.8	54.9	.270	3.6
1943	43	151	121	25	37	5	2	0	13	29	1	2	.306	.440	.380	.820	122.7	119.9	.406	2.5
1944	35	118	93	15	22	2	2	0	13	20	0	0	.237	.377	.301	.678	94.7	83.2	.344	0.6
1945	10	36	30	6	7	1	1	0	4	5	0	0	.233	.343	.333	.676	95.0	89.8	.333	0.5
1946	50	139	114	11	22	3	0	0	12	23	0	0	.193	.328	.219	.548	68.4	54.1	.288	3.5
1947	30	56	48	3	5	1	0	0	3	4	0	0	.104	.173	.125	.298	-7.6	-17.7	.157	0.0
1948	22	44	40	3	9	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	.225	.279	.225	.504	51.0	46.6	.251	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	7	6	1	6	0	4	0	59	28	20	25	1	50.0	5.04	1.580	4.50	4.10	98.2	82.9	0.3
1935	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	11	7	3	16	1	13.3	4.73	1.050	10.80	3.15	72.5	91.8	0.0
1936	8	6	2	4	0	3	0	53	21	11	39	2	48.3	3.91	1.324	7.26	3.62	70.9	130.6	1.2
1937	11	7	3	4	0	5	0	59	29	19	36	2	57.3	4.55	1.360	5.65	4.22	84.6	109.6	1.6
1938	13	8	4	6	0	6	1	95	39	20	52	4	85.0	4.13	1.353	5.51	4.13	81.7	122.4	1.8
1939	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	21	8	5	6	2	18.3	3.93	1.418	2.95	5.36	110.7	123.4	0.3
1942	22	16	8	10	1	13	1	148	50	45	76	8	154.7	2.91	1.248	4.42	3.78	96.4	134.8	3.6
1943	17	15	5	8	0	11	0	146	65	54	50	7	128.3	4.56	1.558	3.51	5.34	111.1	105.5	2.5
1944	15	11	7	4	1	7	0	105	47	20	42	4	85.7	4.94	1.459	4.41	4.10	95.0	87.4	0.6
1945	4	3	3	1	0	1	0	23	10	9	17	1	24.7	3.65	1.297	6.20	3.97	96.2	113.0	0.5
1946	19	15	10	6	2	12	2	114	39	35	69	4	130.0	2.70	1.146	4.78	3.84	86.9	163.5	3.5
1947	13	10	5	5	1	5	1	73	32	21	29	2	68.0	4.24	1.382	3.84	4.02	97.3	97.7	0.0
1948	11	6	3	5	0	4	0	58	16	16	44	3	56.7	2.54	1.306	6.99	3.19	89.9	139.6	1.2

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

323

912

766

102

190

RBI

121

.2480

OBP

.3521

SLG

.3042

OPS

.6563

Pitching

G (P)

145

108

SHO

920

SO (P)

501

BB allowed

278

ERA

3.824

WHIP

1.3506

K/9

4.90

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
1937-06-07	PHS @ NBY Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	3	0	6
1937-05-29	NE @ NBY Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	2	1	6
1943-07-15	NE @ PHS Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	2	5
1944-07-27	PHS @ HOM Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	2	0	4
1932-05-22	CUP @ BBS Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1948-07-13	PHS @ IC Gameday	9.0	15	3	1	1	10	0
1944-07-18	HOM @ PHS Gameday	11.0	14	4	3	2	9	0
1946-08-10	HOM @ PHS Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	9	0
1948-08-27	PHS @ HOM Gameday	8.2	7	4	4	2	9	3
1938-07-17	HOM @ NBY Gameday	7.0	5	0	0	2	9	0

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.

Honors

4× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.