Ed Brinkman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 8, 1941 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1961

Final gameSeptember 28, 1975

Seasons15 (1961–1975)

Washington Senators 1961–1970; Detroit Tigers 1971–1974; New York Yankees 1975; St. Louis Cardinals 1975; Texas Rangers 1975

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

153

71.8

546

22.9

502

31.3

11.5

111

3.8

6.9

39.7

59.5

RBI

32.1

9.9

92.4

.221

0.8

OBP

.266

0.8

SLG

.347

19.8

OPS

.613

6.9

wRC+

69.5

6.1

OPS+

72.7

6.1

wOBA

.285

6.1

sWAR

0.8

10.7

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

61.7

1.1

OPS+

64.9

1.1

sWAR

1.8

68.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1961	4	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.091	.167	.091	.258	-32.5	-28.2	.138	-0.2
1962	54	145	133	8	22	7	1	0	4	11	28	1	0	.165	.228	.233	.461	21.2	25.2	.218	-0.7
1963	145	555	514	44	117	20	3	7	45	31	86	5	3	.228	.276	.319	.595	61.5	65.8	.269	0.0
1964	132	482	447	54	100	20	3	8	34	26	99	2	2	.224	.271	.336	.606	63.3	66.9	.275	0.1
1965	154	491	444	35	82	13	2	5	35	38	82	1	2	.185	.251	.257	.508	38.5	45.1	.235	-1.2
1966	158	625	582	42	133	18	9	7	48	29	105	7	9	.229	.263	.326	.589	63.6	68.9	.265	0.3
1967	109	354	320	21	60	9	2	1	18	24	58	1	3	.188	.252	.238	.490	45.5	47.5	.236	-0.5
1968	77	215	193	12	36	3	0	0	6	19	31	0	0	.187	.259	.202	.462	32.6	43.1	.219	-0.5
1969	151	639	576	71	153	18	5	2	43	50	42	2	2	.266	.328	.325	.653	88.5	87.1	.309	2.1
1970	158	695	625	63	164	17	2	1	40	60	41	8	9	.262	.330	.301	.631	82.7	79.1	.302	1.7
1971	159	589	527	40	120	18	2	1	37	44	54	1	4	.228	.293	.275	.568	56.8	61.1	.269	-0.2
1972	156	571	516	42	105	19	1	6	49	38	51	0	0	.203	.259	.279	.538	49.0	59.5	.250	-0.5
1973	162	566	515	55	122	16	4	7	40	34	79	0	1	.237	.284	.324	.609	64.5	67.5	.284	0.4
1974	153	546	502	55	111	15	3	14	54	29	71	2	0	.221	.266	.347	.613	69.5	72.7	.285	0.8
1975	73	155	140	8	29	8	1	1	8	10	17	0	0	.207	.266	.300	.566	51.7	57.9	.263	0.0

Career totals

1,845

372nd-most career G

6,640

6,045

550

1,355

201

RBI

461

444

845

.2242

OBP

.2800

SLG

.2998

OPS

.5798

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	HR	RBI	TB
1974-04-27	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1966-07-27	LAA @ TEX Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	0	7
1964-04-18	MIN @ TEX Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	1	7
1964-07-19	TEX @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	1	7
1970-05-23	TEX @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	3	6

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× Gold Glove1× 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.