Elmer Brown
St. Louis Browns 1911–1912; Brooklyn Superbas 1913; Brooklyn Robins 1914–1915
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -36.2 | -29.9 | .119 | -0.5 |
| 1912 | 23 | 39 | 36 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .189 | .250 | .439 | 21.7 | 26.1 | .209 | 1.5 |
| 1913 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -119.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .083 | .083 | .167 | -69.6 | -50.9 | .079 | -0.3 |
| 1915 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 16.7 | 6.48 | 1.800 | 2.70 | 4.83 | 145.9 | 51.1 | -0.5 |
| 1912 | 23 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 122 | 40 | 42 | 45 | 2 | 120.3 | 2.99 | 1.363 | 3.37 | 3.76 | 114.5 | 110.0 | 1.5 |
| 1913 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 13.0 | 2.08 | 1.231 | 4.15 | 4.24 | 132.3 | 154.2 | 0.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 16 | 23 | 22 | 2 | 36.7 | 3.93 | 1.527 | 5.40 | 4.22 | 148.7 | 72.3 | -0.3 |
| 1915 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 9.00 | 3.500 | 4.50 | 5.86 | 211.3 | 30.8 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-05-20 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1912-05-25 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1912-07-13 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1911-09-28 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1912-04-30 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914-06-27 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1912-05-04 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| 1912-04-13 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1912-06-14 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 9.2 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1911-09-16 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 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.