Mordecai Brown

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 19, 1876 · Nyesville, IN, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1903

Final gameSeptember 4, 1916

Seasons14 (1903–1916)

St. Louis Cardinals 1903; Chicago Cubs 1904–1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1914; St. Louis Terriers 1914; Chicago Whales 1915; Chicago Cubs 1916

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified pitchers

43.2

71.2

76.8

61.6

SHO

58.4

189

57.6

74.4

53.6

65.6

236.3

56.8

ERA

2.09

91.2

WHIP

1.071

86.4

K/9

3.62

FIP

2.70

63.2

FIP-

89.1

76.8

ERA+

144.7

sWAR

5.6

92.8

of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

139.0

98.4

sWAR

65.0

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1903	26	81	77	4	15	2	1	0	6	1	14	2	.195	.215	.247	.462	32.3	32.1	.222	3.3
1904	31	92	89	8	19	3	1	0	8	2	19	0	.213	.231	.270	.500	53.3	56.2	.239	4.3
1905	31	104	93	6	13	1	1	1	3	4	20	1	.140	.175	.204	.380	10.7	13.3	.185	4.7
1906	36	109	98	11	20	1	0	0	4	6	16	0	.204	.250	.214	.464	41.4	44.5	.235	8.8
1907	36	91	85	6	13	0	2	1	7	1	17	0	.153	.163	.235	.398	9.1	24.6	.191	5.6
1908	46	128	121	5	25	0	0	0	4	2	20	2	.207	.220	.207	.426	26.4	36.2	.208	6.9
1909	50	135	125	13	22	3	1	0	9	5	18	0	.176	.208	.216	.424	25.5	32.2	.210	8.9
1910	46	115	103	9	18	1	2	0	6	6	17	1	.175	.220	.223	.443	27.1	31.7	.220	6.6
1911	53	100	91	8	23	4	1	0	6	6	12	0	.253	.299	.319	.618	72.2	74.4	.298	4.8
1912	16	34	31	3	9	1	0	0	5	2	6	1	.290	.333	.323	.656	80.9	81.0	.317	1.8
1913	39	58	54	2	11	0	1	0	3	1	10	0	.204	.218	.241	.459	22.8	30.9	.217	2.3
1914	35	84	78	6	19	2	0	0	7	4	12	1	.244	.280	.269	.550	53.6	56.8	.266	1.6
1915	36	89	82	10	24	2	1	0	6	3	14	0	.293	.318	.341	.659	89.9	93.6	.315	5.6
1916	12	17	16	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	.250	.294	.250	.544	64.7	67.0	.266	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1903	26	24	9	13	0	19	1	231	58	59	83	7	201.0	2.60	1.443	3.72	3.33	103.0	124.4	3.3
1904	26	23	15	10	1	21	4	155	44	50	81	1	212.3	1.86	.965	3.43	2.42	91.3	142.2	4.3
1905	30	24	18	12	0	24	4	219	60	44	89	3	249.0	2.17	1.056	3.22	2.57	86.5	136.9	4.7
1906	36	32	26	6	3	27	9	198	32	61	144	1	277.3	1.04	.934	4.67	1.97	74.7	254.1	8.8
1907	34	27	20	6	3	20	6	180	36	40	107	2	233.0	1.39	.944	4.13	1.80	73.0	177.4	5.6
1908	44	31	29	9	5	27	9	214	51	49	123	1	312.3	1.47	.842	3.54	1.73	73.6	159.6	6.9
1909	50	34	27	9	7	32	8	246	50	53	172	1	342.7	1.31	.873	4.52	1.71	66.7	194.8	8.9
1910	46	31	25	14	7	27	6	256	61	64	143	3	295.3	1.86	1.084	4.36	2.23	76.6	157.0	6.6
1911	53	27	21	11	13	21	0	267	84	55	129	5	270.0	2.80	1.193	4.30	2.59	77.6	119.1	4.8
1912	15	8	5	6	0	5	2	92	26	20	34	2	88.7	2.64	1.263	3.45	2.98	89.0	127.0	1.8
1913	39	16	11	12	6	11	1	174	56	44	41	7	173.3	2.91	1.258	2.13	3.45	108.0	109.9	2.3
1914	35	26	14	11	0	18	2	235	91	61	113	8	232.7	3.52	1.272	4.37	3.04	94.8	91.0	1.6
1915	35	25	17	8	4	17	3	189	55	64	95	2	236.3	2.09	1.071	3.62	2.70	89.1	144.7	5.6
1916	12	4	2	3	0	2	0	52	21	9	21	0	48.3	3.91	1.262	3.91	2.24	85.1	67.4	-0.3

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

493

1,237

1,143

235

RBI

199

.2056

OBP

.2357

SLG

.2476

OPS

.4833

Pitching

G (P)

481

497th-most career G (P)

332

250th-most career GS

239

60th-most career W

130

277th-most career L

380th-most career SV

271

60th-most career CG

SHO

14th-most career SHO

3,172

115th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,375

293rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

673

428th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.057

6th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0658

12th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.90

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
1910-07-31	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	6
1913-07-04	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	5
1912-05-28	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4
1910-06-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	4
1903-08-18	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	3	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO	HR
1907-07-29	LAD @ CHC Gameday	10.0	2	1	0	10	1
1910-08-26	SF @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	1	0	10	0
1903-09-27	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	8	3	2	9	0
1904-07-29	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	2	1	9	0
1906-07-21	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	6	1	9	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

Hall of Fame, 1949 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.