MLB / Players

Ray Brown

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 23, 1908 · McDonald Township, OH, USA

Final gameSeptember 26, 1945

Seasons15 (1931–1945)

Indianapolis ABCs 1931; Kansas City Monarchs 1931; Detroit Wolves 1932; Homestead Grays 1932–1945

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

21.7

125

9.4

111

10.1

5.1

12.3

22.5

26.1

RBI

26.1

15.9

62.3

31.9

.288

68.1

OBP

.363

68.1

SLG

.378

54.3

OPS

.741

wRC+

99.1

OPS+

98.1

42.8

wOBA

.359

60.1

sWAR

1.6

53.6

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 105 PA)

1944 season — qualified pitchers

24.2

42.1

98.9

48.4

57.9

SHO

73.7

130

75.8

76.8

85.3

33.7

69.5

127.3

24.2

ERA

3.25

51.6

WHIP

1.202

76.8

K/9

3.53

55.8

FIP

3.93

23.2

FIP-

91.0

70.5

ERA+

132.7

81.1

sWAR

3.8

78.9

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 43 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

143.5

98.9

sWAR

44.1

98.3

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
1931	31	78	71	6	17	4	1	1	8	5	5	0	.239	.289	.366	.656	80.3	82.3	.308	3.5
1932	44	160	150	21	36	10	3	0	16	7	0	1	.240	.274	.347	.621	69.1	70.8	.293	1.6
1933	20	84	81	11	22	7	3	2	15	2	0	1	.272	.289	.506	.795	107.0	113.1	.348	2.3
1934	20	79	71	13	21	5	2	5	17	5	1	0	.296	.342	.634	.976	160.1	171.2	.422	0.5
1935	36	137	118	28	33	12	3	5	29	18	1	4	.280	.375	.559	.934	124.9	132.5	.411	3.7
1936	27	92	80	8	23	1	1	1	10	9	0	1	.288	.360	.363	.722	88.6	84.8	.341	2.0
1937	35	102	87	25	28	5	1	3	19	11	0	0	.322	.398	.506	.904	126.7	131.1	.405	4.3
1938	33	105	93	21	27	9	0	6	22	10	1	0	.290	.359	.581	.940	132.4	144.5	.414	6.3
1939	19	76	71	14	18	3	0	1	8	4	1	1	.254	.293	.338	.631	70.1	67.1	.294	0.8
1940	32	92	80	12	26	3	2	2	10	10	1	0	.325	.400	.488	.888	123.0	130.1	.406	7.7
1941	33	84	78	9	16	3	1	3	8	6	4	2	.205	.262	.385	.647	78.7	79.5	.297	2.9
1942	36	121	112	13	25	6	1	1	9	7	3	0	.223	.275	.321	.596	71.2	69.8	.286	2.7
1943	41	125	111	13	32	3	2	1	23	12	1	0	.288	.363	.378	.741	99.1	98.1	.359	1.6
1944	31	94	81	13	26	3	2	2	17	10	1	0	.321	.396	.481	.877	129.8	134.2	.409	3.8
1945	27	93	76	5	16	5	2	0	13	16	1	0	.211	.348	.329	.677	94.6	90.1	.332	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1931	18	13	7	5	0	11	1	90	32	33	70	2	114.0	2.53	1.079	5.53	3.39	80.8	165.9	3.5
1932	16	12	7	7	1	11	1	119	47	38	51	5	115.3	3.67	1.361	3.98	4.33	103.6	113.9	1.6
1933	10	9	6	2	0	6	0	74	24	18	42	3	72.7	2.97	1.266	5.20	4.10	95.1	145.0	2.3
1934	3	3	1	2	0	2	0	29	15	6	13	0	21.7	6.23	1.615	5.40	3.09	87.6	56.7	0.5
1935	17	12	8	5	1	10	1	99	38	41	48	4	105.0	3.26	1.333	4.11	4.86	95.4	156.5	3.7
1936	13	9	6	3	1	7	0	77	38	26	39	4	86.7	3.95	1.188	4.05	4.65	91.0	129.5	2.0
1937	21	12	11	3	4	12	0	109	45	37	74	4	126.0	3.21	1.159	5.29	4.24	85.1	155.2	4.3
1938	20	11	14	0	3	11	4	106	28	26	70	3	129.0	1.95	1.023	4.88	3.81	75.3	258.7	6.3
1939	7	7	6	1	0	6	0	69	30	16	14	1	59.3	4.55	1.433	2.12	4.34	89.5	106.5	0.8
1940	21	18	17	2	0	18	4	137	38	45	75	1	165.3	2.07	1.101	4.08	4.02	77.0	252.4	7.7
1941	20	13	8	6	3	13	0	137	49	38	70	2	129.3	3.41	1.353	4.87	3.68	83.5	129.4	2.9
1942	20	16	13	6	0	13	0	141	55	49	60	5	141.7	3.49	1.341	3.81	3.91	99.7	112.3	2.7
1943	15	9	6	1	1	6	2	78	35	26	30	1	77.0	4.09	1.351	3.51	4.61	95.8	117.5	1.6
1944	17	14	10	1	1	12	3	130	46	23	50	4	127.3	3.25	1.202	3.53	3.93	91.0	132.7	3.8
1945	6	5	3	3	0	4	1	42	20	8	20	1	41.3	4.35	1.210	4.35	3.65	88.5	94.7	0.5

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

465

1,522

1,360

212

366

RBI

224

132

.2691

OBP

.3347

SLG

.4353

OPS

.7700

Pitching

G (P)

224

163

123

424th-most career W

142

248th-most career CG

SHO

317th-most career SHO

1,512

SO (P)

726

BB allowed

430

ERA

3.215

264th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2351

273rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.32

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 2006 (Negro League)

2× 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.