MLB / Players

Lou Brissie

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 210 lb

BornJune 5, 1924 · Anderson, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 28, 1947

Final gameSeptember 1, 1953

Seasons7 (1947–1953)

Philadelphia Athletics 1947–1950; Cleveland Indians 1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1951; Cleveland Indians 1952–1953

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified pitchers

91.7

3.3

96.7

SHO

237

110

16.7

117

101

68.3

26.7

246.0

73.3

ERA

4.02

41.7

WHIP

1.439

K/9

3.70

46.7

FIP

4.53

18.3

FIP-

100.0

26.7

ERA+

112.6

sWAR

3.4

51.7

of 61 qualified 1950 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.7

86.6

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1947	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.1	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1948	39	83	76	3	18	1	0	10	2	8	.237	.256	.250	.506	26.0	35.2	.242	2.3
1949	34	97	90	7	24	2	1	6	1	8	.267	.275	.311	.586	46.0	56.6	.275	2.1
1950	46	91	87	5	15	1	0	7	3	4	.172	.200	.184	.384	-11.2	-0.7	.185	3.4
1951	56	30	28	2	7	1	0	2	0	2	.250	.250	.286	.536	38.6	48.7	.247	1.7
1952	42	16	12	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	.250	.308	.250	.558	61.0	62.2	.274	0.8
1953	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1947	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	9	5	5	4	1	7.0	6.43	2.000	5.14	5.28	140.0	58.7	-0.2
1948	39	25	14	10	5	11	0	202	89	95	127	6	194.0	4.13	1.531	5.89	3.34	78.1	103.6	2.3
1949	34	29	16	11	3	18	0	220	109	118	118	20	229.3	4.28	1.474	4.63	4.21	102.5	95.9	2.1
1950	46	31	7	19	8	15	2	237	110	117	101	22	246.0	4.02	1.439	3.70	4.53	100.0	112.6	3.4
1951	56	6	4	5	9	1	0	110	50	69	53	5	125.7	3.58	1.424	3.80	3.97	102.2	108.6	1.7
1952	42	1	3	2	2	0	0	68	32	34	28	5	82.7	3.48	1.234	3.05	3.71	108.6	98.0	0.8
1953	16	0	0	0	2	0	0	21	11	13	5	2	13.0	7.62	2.615	3.46	6.80	178.3	50.1	-0.4

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

234

319

295

RBI

.2271

OBP

.2450

SLG

.2508

OPS

.4958

Pitching

G (P)

234

SHO

898

SO (P)

436

BB allowed

451

ERA

4.071

WHIP

1.4683

K/9

4.37

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	3B	RBI	TB
1949-07-27	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3
1951-06-07	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1949-08-10	ATH @ MIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	3
1949-07-01	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2
1948-07-11	BOS @ ATH Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1949-06-07	ATH @ CWS Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	4	10	0
1948-05-09	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	3	2	4	9	0
1949-07-01	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	5	5	7	9	1
1948-07-06	ATH @ MIN Gameday	8.0	11	3	3	2	9	0
1949-05-28	ATH @ NYY Gameday	13.1	6	2	2	5	8	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

1× 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.