Mace Brown

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornMay 21, 1909 · North English, IA, USA

MLB debutMay 21, 1935

Final gameSeptember 10, 1946

Seasons10 (1935–1946)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1935–1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1941; Boston Red Sox 1942–1943; Boston Red Sox 1946

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

98.9

36.2

44.7

42.6

100

20.2

SHO

40.4

181

48.9

57.4

69.1

173.0

ERA

3.49

59.6

WHIP

1.329

55.3

K/9

3.80

46.8

FIP

3.16

96.8

FIP-

82.4

90.4

ERA+

110.2

51.1

sWAR

2.3

54.3

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

110.6

73.1

sWAR

14.1

90.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1935	18	27	24	3	4	1	0	1	9	.167	.200	.208	.408	2.5	9.0	.191	1.1
1936	47	65	60	6	10	1	5	2	10	.167	.194	.183	.377	-6.8	1.6	.180	1.7
1937	50	31	30	3	9	1	2	1	4	.300	.323	.333	.656	76.9	79.4	.305	0.9
1938	51	43	38	1	5	2	5	0	8	.132	.132	.184	.316	-32.0	-14.0	.142	1.1
1939	47	69	64	4	7	1	2	1	11	.109	.123	.125	.248	-51.0	-32.9	.117	2.7
1940	48	62	52	4	6	1	3	4	8	.115	.193	.135	.328	-12.5	-8.1	.169	2.3
1941	25	8	8	1	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.0	-100.0	.000	0.6
1942	34	20	15	2	1	0	0	2	3	.067	.176	.067	.243	-33.3	-31.0	.145	0.7
1943	49	19	17	0	1	0	1	1	8	.059	.111	.059	.170	-69.4	-50.0	.095	2.2
1946	18	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-144.9	-100.0	.000	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1935	18	5	4	1	0	2	0	84	29	22	28	5	72.7	3.59	1.459	3.47	4.05	99.1	113.9	1.1
1936	47	10	10	11	3	3	0	178	71	55	56	8	165.0	3.87	1.412	3.05	4.01	99.3	104.4	1.7
1937	50	2	7	2	7	0	0	109	50	45	60	2	107.7	4.18	1.430	5.02	3.36	86.9	92.6	0.9
1938	51	2	15	9	5	0	0	155	56	44	55	5	132.7	3.80	1.500	3.73	3.39	89.4	99.8	1.1
1939	47	19	9	13	7	8	1	232	75	52	71	8	200.3	3.37	1.418	3.19	3.43	88.4	115.1	2.7
1940	48	17	10	9	7	5	1	181	67	49	73	5	173.0	3.49	1.329	3.80	3.16	82.4	110.2	2.3
1941	25	0	3	2	3	0	0	33	15	26	22	3	44.0	3.07	1.341	4.50	4.29	116.3	120.2	0.6
1942	34	0	9	3	6	0	0	56	23	28	20	4	60.3	3.43	1.392	2.98	4.14	110.5	109.2	0.7
1943	49	0	6	6	9	0	0	71	22	51	40	2	93.3	2.12	1.307	3.86	3.41	102.3	157.1	2.2
1946	18	0	3	1	1	0	0	26	6	16	10	2	26.3	2.05	1.595	3.42	4.50	122.6	179.0	0.7

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

387

350

313

RBI

.1374

OBP

.1718

SLG

.1597

OPS

.3315

Pitching

G (P)

387

389th-most career SV

SHO

1,075

SO (P)

435

BB allowed

388

ERA

3.465

421st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.4070

K/9

3.64

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	RBI	TB
1936-07-14	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	3
1936-09-17	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	2
1937-10-03	CIN @ PIT Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	2
1938-06-12	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2
1940-07-20	ATL @ PIT Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-09-18	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	9	4	2	3	8	0
1939-09-02	PIT @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	3	6	1
1940-04-26	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	10	4	2	2	6	0
1937-09-08	CIN @ PIT Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	2	6	0
1940-09-25	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6.2	9	6	5	2	6	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.