MLB / Players

Brooks Lawrence

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb

BornJanuary 30, 1925 · Springfield, OH, USA

MLB debutJune 24, 1954

Final gameMay 1, 1960

Seasons7 (1954–1960)

St. Louis Cardinals 1954–1955; Cincinnati Redlegs 1956–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified pitchers

96.2

11.3

22.6

94.3

18.9

SHO

49.1

194

56.6

50.9

73.6

11.3

94.3

181.0

26.4

ERA

4.13

22.6

WHIP

1.376

22.6

K/9

3.68

5.7

FIP

3.53

71.7

FIP-

84.9

ERA+

100.7

37.7

sWAR

1.7

30.2

of 54 qualified 1958 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.9

21.9

sWAR

7.8

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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	35	58	53	2	10	0	0	4	3	15	0	0	.189	.246	.189	.434	6.6	14.9	.211	2.3
1955	46	24	21	1	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	.095	.136	.095	.232	-48.0	-37.2	.116	-1.9
1956	49	81	70	4	11	2	1	4	2	28	0	0	.157	.187	.214	.401	-7.6	5.2	.182	2.0
1957	49	94	82	4	14	2	0	7	6	26	0	0	.171	.227	.195	.422	5.9	12.5	.203	4.1
1958	46	61	53	1	6	0	0	3	5	13	1	1	.113	.183	.113	.297	-32.2	-20.8	.152	1.7
1959	43	42	40	5	6	1	0	3	0	13	0	0	.150	.150	.175	.325	-30.8	-14.6	.146	0.1
1960	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	35	18	15	6	1	8	0	141	66	72	72	17	158.7	3.74	1.342	4.08	4.42	106.9	110.3	2.3
1955	46	10	3	8	1	2	1	102	70	58	52	11	96.0	6.56	1.667	4.88	4.74	116.1	62.3	-1.9
1956	49	30	19	10	0	11	1	210	97	71	96	26	218.7	3.99	1.285	3.95	3.90	98.4	99.3	2.0
1957	49	32	16	13	4	12	1	234	98	76	121	26	250.3	3.52	1.238	4.35	3.90	95.5	115.9	4.1
1958	46	23	8	13	5	6	2	194	83	55	74	12	181.0	4.13	1.376	3.68	3.53	84.9	100.7	1.7
1959	43	14	7	12	10	3	0	144	68	45	64	17	128.3	4.77	1.473	4.49	4.49	110.8	85.0	0.1
1960	7	0	1	0	1	0	0	9	9	8	2	1	7.7	10.57	2.217	2.35	6.95	181.9	36.2	-0.5

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

275

360

319

RBI

.1536

OBP

.1988

SLG

.1755

OPS

.3743

Pitching

G (P)

275

127

SHO

1,041

SO (P)

481

BB allowed

385

ERA

4.246

WHIP

1.3635

K/9

4.16

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
1954-08-05	STL @ LAD Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	0	1	3
1956-06-22	CIN @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	3
1959-04-29	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	2
1957-07-21	CIN @ PHI Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
1959-05-20	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-05-15	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	11	1
1954-09-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	8	0
1954-07-19	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	1	1	1	7	0
1956-07-17	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	3	7	1
1957-06-20	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	0	7	1

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

1× 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.