MLB / Players

Jim Brosnan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 197 lb
BornOctober 24, 1929 · Cincinnati, OH, USA
MLB debutApril 15, 1954
Final gameSeptember 21, 1963
Seasons9 (1954–1963)

Chicago Cubs 1954; Chicago Cubs 1956–1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1958; Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1962; Chicago White Sox 1963; Cincinnati Reds 1963

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified pitchers

G
41
75.5
GS
20
5.7
W
11
30.2
L
8
83
SV
7
96.2
CG
4
1.9
SHO
0
0
H
148
94.3
ER
62
92.5
BB
79
24.5
SO
89
20.8
HR
13
86.8
IP
166.7
7.5
ERA
3.35
67.9
WHIP
1.362
28.3
K/9
4.81
45.3
FIP
3.89
39.6
FIP-
96.6
50.9
ERA+
120.4
79.2
sWAR
2.8
49.1

of 54 qualified 1958 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
12.0
88.8

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
195418881100020100.125.125.125.250-61.0-35.0.113-1.7
19563024222410000600.182.182.227.409-2.79.5.1820.9
19574123202540001400.250.286.450.73693.294.1.3221.8
195841565025300231700.100.151.160.311-31.4-18.1.1492.8
19594632300301001900.100.129.167.296-37.9-24.3.1361.5
19605717151320141600.200.250.533.783104.3106.4.3382.9
19615315131200011600.154.214.154.368-1.90.0.1831.7
196248861000000100.000.000.000.000-124.0-100.0.0001.1
19635113130400000400.308.308.308.61573.576.8.2801.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19541801000044351817933.39.451.8604.596.62159.144.0-1.7
195630105911195404551995.03.791.4744.833.81101.299.40.9
195741555010793746731198.73.381.2676.663.91100.6115.21.8
1958412011874014862798913166.73.351.3624.813.8996.6120.42.8
195946109641111349417412116.33.791.3245.723.9095.5107.71.5
196057272120079262262499.02.361.0205.642.5967.7161.82.9
1961530104160077271840780.03.041.1884.503.4885.8133.51.7
196248044130076241851664.73.341.4547.103.1879.5120.01.1
196351039140079272550977.73.131.3395.793.65104.7111.81.2

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
385
PA
196
AB
177
R
10
H
27
2B
10
3B
1
HR
1
RBI
9
BB
7
SO
54
SB
0
BA
.1525
OBP
.1848
SLG
.2373
OPS
.4221

Pitching

G (P)
385
GS
47
W
55
L
47
SV
67
272nd-most career SV
CG
7
SHO
2
IP
831
SO (P)
507
BB allowed
312
ERA
3.540
WHIP
1.3256
K/9
5.49

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
1960-05-23CHC @ CIN Gameday211001104
1957-06-13CHC @ SF Gameday302100003
1959-04-25LAD @ STL Gameday101010003
1960-08-13LAD @ CIN Gameday101100202
1958-05-04CIN @ CHC Gameday301100102

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1956-09-03CHC @ STL Gameday9.0900180
1958-08-17STL @ LAD Gameday6.0411380
1959-06-24CHC @ CIN Gameday9.0400270
1958-06-08PHI @ STL Gameday8.1642470
1959-07-11SF @ CIN Gameday8.01144071

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.