Kevin Brown

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 195 lb

BornMarch 14, 1965 · Milledgeville, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 30, 1986

Final gameJuly 23, 2005

Seasons19 (1986–2005)

Texas Rangers 1986; Texas Rangers 1988–1994; Baltimore Orioles 1995; Florida Marlins 1996–1997; San Diego Padres 1998; Los Angeles Dodgers 1999–2003; New York Yankees 2004–2005

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified pitchers

27.5

41.8

62.6

SHO

184

72.5

96.7

63.7

185

97.8

211.0

71.4

ERA

2.39

97.8

WHIP

1.137

90.1

K/9

7.89

86.8

FIP

2.77

95.6

FIP-

68.1

95.6

ERA+

170.1

96.7

sWAR

6.1

94.5

of 92 qualified 2003 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

127.6

95.6

sWAR

64.3

99.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1988	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1989	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.2
1990	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	2.5
1991	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
1992	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.3
1993	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.9
1994	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1995	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.7
1996	34	85	75	1	9	1	0	3	6	28	.120	.185	.133	.319	-12.7	-12.4	.160	7.9
1997	33	83	72	4	9	1	0	4	5	25	.125	.182	.139	.321	-17.8	-12.7	.159	6.0
1998	36	93	82	4	17	3	0	10	4	29	.207	.244	.244	.488	30.3	33.4	.226	7.5
1999	35	94	78	1	5	0	0	3	2	24	.064	.086	.064	.151	-71.7	-60.0	.074	5.6
2000	33	84	66	2	5	0	0	3	2	29	.076	.129	.076	.204	-50.8	-45.2	.107	6.4
2001	20	41	36	2	3	0	1	2	0	12	.083	.154	.167	.321	-17.8	-14.4	.153	3.0
2002	17	22	20	2	5	1	1	2	0	11	.250	.250	.450	.700	80.0	85.2	.302	0.2
2003	32	70	63	4	10	3	0	2	0	28	.159	.156	.206	.363	-16.7	-3.7	.158	6.1
2004	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2005	13	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	302.1	289.5	.631	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	1	1	1	0	0	0	6	2	0	4	0	5.0	3.60	1.200	7.20	1.19	27.9	118.6	0.1
1988	4	4	1	1	1	0	33	11	8	12	2	23.3	4.24	1.757	4.63	4.06	99.9	95.9	0.2
1989	28	28	12	9	7	0	167	71	70	104	10	191.0	3.35	1.241	4.90	3.60	91.3	118.0	3.2
1990	26	26	12	10	6	2	175	72	60	88	13	180.0	3.60	1.306	4.40	3.82	97.3	109.1	2.5
1991	33	33	9	12	0	0	233	103	90	96	17	210.7	4.40	1.533	4.10	4.51	111.4	92.1	1.2
1992	35	35	21	11	11	1	262	98	76	173	11	265.7	3.32	1.272	5.86	3.00	77.9	115.9	4.3
1993	34	34	15	12	12	3	228	93	74	142	14	233.0	3.59	1.296	5.48	3.71	88.3	116.9	3.9
1994	26	25	7	9	3	0	218	91	50	123	18	170.0	4.82	1.576	6.51	4.11	86.5	98.8	1.6
1995	26	26	10	9	3	1	155	69	48	117	10	172.3	3.60	1.178	6.11	3.53	75.0	130.5	3.7
1996	32	32	17	11	5	3	187	49	33	159	8	233.0	1.89	.944	6.14	2.81	68.6	216.2	7.9
1997	33	33	16	8	6	2	214	71	66	205	10	237.3	2.69	1.180	7.77	2.90	71.4	151.0	6.0
1998	36	35	18	7	7	3	225	68	49	257	8	257.0	2.38	1.066	9.00	2.16	54.1	167.6	7.5
1999	35	35	18	9	5	1	210	84	59	221	19	252.3	3.00	1.066	7.88	3.09	71.0	145.0	5.6
2000	33	33	13	6	5	1	181	66	47	216	21	230.0	2.58	.991	8.45	3.10	69.7	171.9	6.4
2001	20	19	10	4	1	0	94	34	38	104	8	115.7	2.65	1.141	8.09	3.14	76.3	155.7	3.0
2002	17	10	3	4	0	0	68	34	23	58	9	63.7	4.81	1.429	8.20	4.21	108.3	80.9	0.2
2003	32	32	14	9	0	0	184	56	56	185	11	211.0	2.39	1.137	7.89	2.77	68.1	170.1	6.1
2004	22	22	10	6	0	0	132	60	35	83	14	132.0	4.09	1.265	5.66	4.14	90.7	111.7	2.0
2005	13	13	4	7	0	0	107	53	19	50	5	73.3	6.50	1.718	6.14	3.64	84.8	66.0	-1.0

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

490

575

495

RBI

187

.1293

OBP

.1689

SLG

.1616

OPS

.3305

Pitching

G (P)

486

479th-most career G (P)

476

67th-most career GS

211

98th-most career W

144

191st-most career L

SHO

317th-most career SHO

3,256

102nd-most career IP

SO (P)

2,397

51st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

901

162nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.275

298th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2222

230th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.62

265th-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	TB
2002-04-07	COL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	7
2001-05-02	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	5
1998-04-15	SD @ SF Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	3
1998-06-26	LAA @ SD Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2
1998-09-25	SD @ AZ Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1998-09-29	SD @ HOU Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	2	16	0
2000-09-23	SD @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	1	13	0
1999-05-25	LAD @ CIN Gameday	8.0	5	3	1	1	12	0
2000-07-06	LAD @ SD Gameday	8.0	4	3	3	1	12	2
2000-08-04	MIL @ LAD Gameday	7.2	6	1	1	1	12	0

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

6× 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.