Tom Brookens
Detroit Tigers 1979–1988; New York Yankees 1989; Cleveland Indians 1990
Percentile snapshot
1985 season — qualified batters
of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 60 | 208 | 190 | 23 | 50 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 11 | 40 | 10 | 3 | .263 | .309 | .374 | .683 | 82.1 | 81.9 | .310 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 151 | 551 | 509 | 64 | 140 | 25 | 9 | 10 | 66 | 32 | 71 | 13 | 11 | .275 | .315 | .418 | .734 | 96.8 | 98.9 | .328 | 1.9 |
| 1981 | 71 | 265 | 239 | 19 | 58 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 43 | 5 | 3 | .243 | .284 | .343 | .627 | 75.2 | 78.5 | .289 | 0.3 |
| 1982 | 140 | 432 | 398 | 40 | 92 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 58 | 27 | 63 | 5 | 9 | .231 | .277 | .352 | .629 | 70.7 | 72.9 | .283 | 0.2 |
| 1983 | 138 | 374 | 332 | 50 | 71 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 32 | 29 | 46 | 10 | 4 | .214 | .276 | .325 | .602 | 66.2 | 68.2 | .273 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 113 | 253 | 224 | 32 | 55 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 19 | 33 | 6 | 6 | .246 | .306 | .397 | .703 | 96.3 | 95.4 | .318 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 156 | 522 | 485 | 54 | 115 | 34 | 6 | 7 | 47 | 27 | 78 | 14 | 5 | .237 | .277 | .375 | .652 | 77.4 | 78.6 | .291 | 0.7 |
| 1986 | 98 | 310 | 281 | 42 | 76 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 42 | 11 | 8 | .270 | .319 | .356 | .675 | 86.1 | 85.3 | .307 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 143 | 490 | 444 | 59 | 107 | 15 | 3 | 13 | 59 | 33 | 63 | 7 | 4 | .241 | .295 | .376 | .671 | 79.4 | 80.7 | .296 | 0.7 |
| 1988 | 136 | 498 | 441 | 62 | 107 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 38 | 44 | 74 | 4 | 4 | .243 | .313 | .351 | .664 | 90.5 | 89.4 | .306 | 1.4 |
| 1989 | 66 | 183 | 168 | 14 | 38 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 27 | 1 | 3 | .226 | .272 | .333 | .606 | 67.3 | 70.8 | .278 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 64 | 172 | 154 | 18 | 41 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 14 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .322 | .357 | .679 | 89.3 | 90.5 | .312 | 0.5 |
Career totals
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 | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-08-20 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1988-06-14 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 1983-04-12 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1983-05-22 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1982-07-15 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
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.