MLB / Players

Joe Brown

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 162 lb
BornApril 4, 1859 · CAN
MLB debutAugust 16, 1884
Final gameJuly 16, 1885
Seasons2 (1884–1885)

Chicago White Stockings 1884; Baltimore Orioles 1885

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
-1.2
4.6

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
1884156161613100301500.213.213.230.44353.339.4.200-0.5
1885519192300000000.158.158.158.31624.00.0.146-0.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
188476420505626727450.04.681.2604.863.24108.763.6-0.5
18854404040522449038.05.681.4742.132.9390.357.1-0.6

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
20
PA
80
AB
80
R
8
H
16
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
3
BB
0
SO
15
SB
0
BA
.2000
OBP
.2000
SLG
.2125
OPS
.4125

Pitching

G (P)
11
GS
10
W
4
L
6
SV
0
CG
9
SHO
0
IP
88
SO (P)
36
BB allowed
11
ERA
5.114
WHIP
1.3523
K/9
3.68

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.