MLB / Players

Jesse Brown

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 158 lb
BornJune 6, 1914 · Cleveland, OH, USA
Seasons6 (1938–1944)

Newark Eagles 1938; New York Black Yankees 1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1940; New York Black Yankees 1940; Baltimore Elite Giants 1941–1942; New York Black Yankees 1944

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

G
10
6.4
GS
4
0
W
0
0
L
3
84
SV
0
0
CG
2
1.1
SHO
0
0
H
60
89.4
ER
30
88.3
BB
23
83
SO
15
0
HR
3
79.8
IP
41.0
2.1
ERA
6.59
4.3
WHIP
2.024
0
K/9
3.29
23.4
FIP
5.93
1.1
FIP-
113.6
4.3
ERA+
79.3
7.4
sWAR
0.0
9.6

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 39 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
2.3
71.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19386990000000000.000.000.000.000-81.3-100.0.0000.9
19392311000001000.000.667.000.667179.789.6.5050.5
19401418163420022000.250.333.375.70886.680.2.3350.0
194114322941111073011.379.438.483.920151.5157.8.4270.7
19421316151510131000.333.375.600.975158.6176.0.4450.1
19441210000000000.000.000.000.000-89.3-100.0.0000.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
193863220202081413028.72.511.1864.084.7393.6201.20.9
19392110011504307.30.001.2273.684.6094.90.5
19401040302060302315341.06.592.0243.295.93113.679.30.0
1941952202128171116435.04.371.1144.115.32120.6100.90.7
194265140102515199226.35.131.6713.085.80147.976.50.1
19441100000411204.32.081.1544.153.5181.3207.80.1

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

G
50
PA
80
AB
71
R
9
H
20
2B
4
3B
1
HR
1
RBI
12
BB
7
SO
0
SB
1
BA
.2817
OBP
.3544
SLG
.4085
OPS
.7629

Pitching

G (P)
34
GS
19
W
6
L
11
SV
0
CG
8
SHO
2
IP
143
SO (P)
58
BB allowed
72
ERA
4.479
WHIP
1.5000
K/9
3.66

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1942-06-18BEG @ PHS Gameday111001114
1940-09-14BEG @ HOM Gameday312100103
1941-09-04NE @ BEG Gameday401010213
1941-08-03BEG @ HOM Gameday202000102
1941-09-09BEG @ NE Gameday402000102

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1940-06-14PHS @ NBY Gameday6.2743160
1941-04-20BEG @ HSL Gameday9.0200350
1938-07-17PHS @ NE Gameday7.0844340
1941-06-08BEG @ HOM Gameday7.0411140
1942-06-18BEG @ PHS Gameday4.0311541

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

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.