MLB / Players

Tom Brewer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornSeptember 3, 1931 · Wadesboro, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1954

Final gameSeptember 27, 1961

Seasons8 (1954–1961)

Boston Red Sox 1954–1961

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified pitchers

27.8

40.7

27.8

51.9

35.2

SHO

220

29.6

100

20.4

40.7

1.9

186.7

29.6

ERA

4.82

WHIP

1.564

K/9

2.89

3.7

FIP

3.92

24.1

FIP-

97.0

42.6

ERA+

83.8

sWAR

0.2

1.9

of 55 qualified 1960 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.6

sWAR

17.6

92.4

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	37	63	60	6	16	1	2	0	7	1	13	0	0	.267	.279	.350	.629	54.4	65.0	.288	0.8
1955	33	80	73	9	11	1	0	0	3	3	16	0	0	.151	.195	.164	.359	-18.3	-5.6	.178	1.8
1956	38	101	94	14	28	0	1	1	13	5	19	0	0	.298	.330	.351	.681	69.4	72.5	.317	5.8
1957	45	99	94	15	19	1	0	0	4	1	23	0	0	.202	.211	.213	.423	-1.5	13.4	.197	2.6
1958	42	89	82	9	16	2	0	0	4	3	19	0	0	.195	.221	.220	.440	6.4	18.4	.205	3.0
1959	47	80	72	7	8	0	0	1	5	1	16	2	0	.111	.123	.153	.276	-43.2	-26.3	.126	2.4
1960	45	66	62	5	12	1	0	1	2	1	16	0	1	.194	.206	.258	.464	10.5	22.7	.211	0.2
1961	18	15	14	7	4	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	.286	.267	.500	.767	83.9	97.6	.319	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	33	23	10	9	0	7	0	152	84	95	69	15	162.7	4.65	1.518	3.82	4.61	113.9	87.1	0.8
1955	31	28	11	10	0	9	2	198	90	87	91	21	192.7	4.20	1.479	4.25	4.38	103.1	101.1	1.8
1956	32	32	19	9	0	15	4	200	95	112	127	14	244.3	3.50	1.277	4.68	3.65	80.0	130.3	5.8
1957	32	32	16	13	0	15	2	225	102	93	128	24	238.3	3.85	1.334	4.83	3.89	97.6	103.6	2.6
1958	33	32	12	12	0	10	1	227	94	93	124	21	227.3	3.72	1.408	4.91	3.89	97.0	107.7	3.0
1959	36	32	10	12	2	11	3	219	90	88	121	14	215.3	3.76	1.426	5.06	3.44	84.8	107.9	2.4
1960	34	29	10	15	1	8	1	220	100	72	60	13	186.7	4.82	1.564	2.89	3.92	97.0	83.8	0.2
1961	10	9	3	2	0	0	0	37	16	29	13	4	42.0	3.43	1.571	2.79	5.19	125.4	120.8	0.9

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

305

593

551

114

RBI

125

.2069

OBP

.2281

SLG

.2505

OPS

.4786

Pitching

G (P)

241

217

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,509

SO (P)

733

BB allowed

669

434th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.001

WHIP

1.4225

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1954-07-02	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	0	4
1956-06-30	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	4
1956-05-27	MIN @ BOS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	3	1	4
1959-09-06	BOS @ MIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1960-07-17	BOS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-06-07	DET @ BOS Gameday	12.0	9	4	3	6	11	1
1959-09-06	BOS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	6	10	0
1956-05-07	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	9	0
1956-07-17	ATH @ BOS Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	9	0
1957-07-29	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	3	9	1

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.