Gates Brown
Detroit Tigers 1963–1975
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 55 | 93 | 82 | 16 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 1 | .268 | .333 | .402 | .736 | 104.3 | 102.9 | .332 | 0.3 |
| 1964 | 123 | 465 | 426 | 65 | 116 | 22 | 6 | 15 | 54 | 31 | 53 | 11 | 4 | .272 | .326 | .458 | .784 | 116.9 | 114.6 | .349 | 2.0 |
| 1965 | 96 | 249 | 227 | 33 | 58 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 43 | 17 | 33 | 6 | 0 | .256 | .305 | .467 | .772 | 114.9 | 115.6 | .343 | 1.0 |
| 1966 | 88 | 193 | 169 | 27 | 45 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 27 | 18 | 19 | 3 | 0 | .266 | .337 | .432 | .769 | 117.5 | 117.8 | .342 | 0.8 |
| 1967 | 51 | 105 | 91 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .187 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 71.6 | 68.3 | .276 | -0.1 |
| 1968 | 67 | 104 | 92 | 15 | 34 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .370 | .442 | .685 | 1.127 | 251.3 | 235.8 | .503 | 2.1 |
| 1969 | 60 | 100 | 93 | 13 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .204 | .250 | .290 | .540 | 43.6 | 49.1 | .254 | -0.4 |
| 1970 | 81 | 148 | 124 | 18 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .331 | .323 | .654 | 86.1 | 81.3 | .313 | 0.1 |
| 1971 | 82 | 218 | 195 | 37 | 66 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 29 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 2 | .338 | .408 | .549 | .957 | 175.5 | 167.7 | .434 | 2.4 |
| 1972 | 103 | 283 | 252 | 33 | 58 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 31 | 26 | 28 | 3 | 0 | .230 | .304 | .369 | .673 | 97.5 | 98.8 | .314 | 0.5 |
| 1973 | 125 | 433 | 377 | 48 | 89 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 50 | 52 | 41 | 1 | 1 | .236 | .328 | .366 | .694 | 90.3 | 91.2 | .322 | -0.5 |
| 1974 | 73 | 109 | 99 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .312 | .384 | .696 | 92.9 | 96.5 | .318 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 47 | 45 | 35 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .356 | .314 | .670 | 93.9 | 86.9 | .326 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-08-15 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1964-06-24 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1970-07-25 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1971-08-15 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1963-08-18 | DET @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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.