MLB / Players

John Brown

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 158 lb
BornOctober 23, 1918 · Hamburg, AR, USA
Seasons5 (1944–1948)

Cleveland Buckeyes 1944–1948

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
1.6
68.2

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
19443552200000000.400.400.400.800143.1148.2.384-0.2
1945310101200000000.200.200.200.40022.917.3.1880.9
19461110000000000.000.000.000.000-86.8-100.0.0000.1
194711101000100001.0001.0001.0002.000405.6438.8.9510.2
19484410000003000.000.750.000.750216.4112.7.5720.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
194421000101174139.76.521.5520.938.27245.751.6-0.2
194533120302051414026.01.731.3084.854.41103.9245.00.9
19461000000313304.02.251.5006.755.22127.4182.20.1
19471010000101203.00.00.6676.004.7295.80.2
194840000004168012.30.73.8115.844.96102.4663.20.6

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
12
PA
21
AB
18
R
3
H
5
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
3
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.2778
OBP
.3810
SLG
.2778
OPS
.6588

Pitching

G (P)
11
GS
4
W
2
L
2
SV
0
CG
4
SHO
0
IP
55
SO (P)
28
BB allowed
28
ERA
2.291
WHIP
1.2182
K/9
4.58

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
1944-09-13CLB @ HOM Gameday412000002
1945-09-14CLB @ HOM Gameday401000001
1945-09-20CLB @ PHS Gameday311000001
1944-05-07CLB @ IC Gameday000000000
1944-05-07CLB @ IC Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1945-09-14CLB @ HOM Gameday9.0633670
1945-09-20CLB @ PHS Gameday9.0711540
1945-07-30CLB @ NYC Gameday8.0641330
1948-08-12CLB @ BBB Gameday5.2000330
1948-05-19KCM @ CLB Gameday4.2421230

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.