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Gates Brown
William James Brown

Bats: Left , Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11" , Weight: 220 lb.

Born: May 2, 1939 in Crestline, OH
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1960. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 19, 1963
Final Game: September 26, 1975
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
1963	24	DET	AL	55	93	82	16	22	3	1	2	14	2	1	8	13	.268	.333	.402	.736	103	33	3	1	0	2	0	7
1964	25	DET	AL	123	465	426	65	116	22	6	15	54	11	4	31	53	.272	.326	.458	.784	114	195	6	4	2	2	0	7
1965	26	DET	AL	96	249	227	33	58	14	2	10	43	6	0	17	33	.256	.305	.467	.772	115	106	3	0	3	2	1	7/9
1966	27	DET	AL	88	193	169	27	45	5	1	7	27	3	0	18	19	.266	.337	.432	.769	117	73	3	2	0	4	2	7
1967	28	DET	AL	51	105	91	17	17	1	1	2	9	0	0	13	15	.187	.286	.286	.571	68	26	3	0	0	1	0	7
1968	29	DET	AL	67	104	92	15	34	7	2	6	15	0	0	12	4	.370	.442	.685	1.127	234	63	2	0	0	0	1	7/3
1969	30	DET	AL	60	100	93	13	19	1	2	1	6	0	0	5	17	.204	.250	.290	.540	48	27	2	1	0	1	0	7
1970	31	DET	AL	81	148	124	18	28	3	0	3	24	0	0	20	14	.226	.331	.323	.654	81	40	3	1	0	3	0	7
1971	32	DET	AL	82	218	195	37	66	2	3	11	29	4	2	21	17	.338	.408	.549	.957	164	107	4	2	0	0	2	7
1972	33	DET	AL	103	283	252	33	58	5	0	10	31	3	0	26	28	.230	.304	.369	.673	98	93	7	2	0	3	3	7
1973	34	DET	AL	125	433	377	48	89	11	1	12	50	1	1	52	41	.236	.328	.366	.694	91	138	15	1	0	3	6	*D/7
1974	35	DET	AL	73	109	99	7	24	2	0	4	17	0	0	10	15	.242	.312	.384	.696	98	38	1	0	0	0	2	D
1975	36	DET	AL	47	45	35	1	6	2	0	1	3	0	0	9	6	.171	.356	.314	.670	88	11	2	1	0	0	1
13 Seasons				1051	2545	2262	330	582	78	19	84	322	30	8	242	275	.257	.330	.420	.750	110	950	54	15	5	21	18
162 Game Avg.				162	392	349	51	90	12	3	13	50	5	1	37	42	.257	.330	.420	.750	110	146	8	2	1	3	3

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1963	24	DET	AL	93	66	11	4.5	97	.290	.268	.259	.333	.325	.402	.399	.736	.725	103	.532	0.5	0.1	.672	.244	.134	2.0
1964	25	DET	AL	465	324	64	5.3	98	.281	.272	.258	.326	.327	.458	.401	.784	.727	114	.602	7.0	0.7	.741	.275	.185	12.7
1965	26	DET	AL	249	177	34	5.2	93	.258	.256	.253	.305	.323	.467	.388	.772	.711	115	.612	3.7	0.4	.750	.313	.211	7.5
1966	27	DET	AL	193	131	26	5.4	92	.259	.266	.251	.337	.319	.432	.388	.769	.706	117	.640	4.2	0.4	.756	.290	.166	4.2
1967	28	DET	AL	105	78	8	2.8	87	.200	.187	.246	.286	.316	.286	.369	.571	.685	68	.366	-3.6	-0.4	.506	.242	.099	.0
1968	29	DET	AL	104	60	28	12.5	82	.341	.370	.241	.442	.311	.685	.357	1.127	.668	234	.911	15.0	1.7	1.250	.446	.315	.0
1969	30	DET	AL	100	77	7	2.4	99	.237	.204	.260	.250	.338	.290	.392	.540	.730	48	.270	-7.2	-0.7	.434	.140	.086	.0
1970	31	DET	AL	148	102	15	4.0	98	.227	.226	.259	.331	.334	.323	.395	.654	.729	81	.461	-2.5	-0.3	.616	.258	.097	.0
1971	32	DET	AL	218	135	44	8.8	96	.329	.338	.261	.408	.334	.549	.387	.957	.720	164	.806	16.0	1.7	.978	.328	.210	5.9
1972	33	DET	AL	283	204	29	3.8	85	.221	.230	.250	.304	.319	.369	.361	.673	.680	98	.523	-1.1	-0.1	.617	.254	.139	4.6
1973	34	DET	AL	433	307	44	3.8	98	.235	.236	.266	.328	.336	.366	.391	.694	.727	91	.445	-4.3	-0.4	.628	.268	.130	1.8
1974	35	DET	AL	109	76	12	4.2	91	.250	.242	.261	.312	.325	.384	.375	.696	.700	98	.513	-0.5	-0.1	.632	.242	.141	.0
1975	36	DET	AL	45	31	4	3.5	96	.179	.171	.263	.356	.333	.314	.386	.670	.719	88	.402	-0.1	0.0	.677	.400	.143	.0
13 Seasons				2545	1768	326	5.0	94	.259	.257	.257	.330	.327	.420	.386	.750	.713	110	.590	27.2	3.0	.706	.279	.163	44.2
162 Game Avg.				392	273	50	5.0	94	.259	.257	.257	.330	.327	.420	.386	.750	.713	110	.590	4	0	.706	.279	.163	7

Postseason Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1968	29	DET	AL	WS	STL	W	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

1972	33	DET	AL	ALCS	OAK	L	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
2 Seasons (2 Series)							4	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 ALCS							3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 WS							1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1963	24	DET	AL	93	2.2%	14.0%	8.6%	6.5%	27%	1.63	6.3	41.0	5.9	1.21	74%
1964	25	DET	AL	465	3.2%	11.4%	6.7%	9.3%	37%	1.71	8.0	28.4	7.9	1.05	77%
1965	26	DET	AL	249	4.0%	13.3%	6.8%	10.4%	45%	1.94	6.9	22.7	5.3	1.01	75%
1966	27	DET	AL	193	3.6%	9.8%	9.3%	6.7%	29%	1.06	8.9	24.1	6.3	0.80	76%
1967	28	DET	AL	105	1.9%	14.3%	12.4%	3.8%	24%	1.15	6.1	45.5	10.1	1.18	71%
1968	29	DET	AL	104	5.8%	3.9%	11.5%	14.4%	44%	0.33	23.0	15.3	6.1	1.11	79%
1969	30	DET	AL	100	1.0%	17.0%	5.0%	4.0%	21%	3.40	5.5	93.0	15.5	1.46	76%
1970	31	DET	AL	148	2.0%	9.5%	13.5%	4.1%	21%	0.70	8.9	41.3	5.2	0.83	74%
1971	32	DET	AL	218	5.1%	7.8%	9.6%	7.3%	24%	0.81	11.5	17.7	6.7	1.30	77%
1972	33	DET	AL	283	3.5%	9.9%	9.2%	5.3%	26%	1.08	9.0	25.2	8.1	0.81	77%
1973	34	DET	AL	433	2.8%	9.5%	12.0%	5.5%	27%	0.79	9.2	31.4	7.5	1.11	76%
1974	35	DET	AL	109	3.7%	13.8%	9.2%	5.5%	25%	1.50	6.6	24.8	5.8	0.91	73%
1975	36	DET	AL	45	2.2%	13.3%	20.0%	6.7%	50%	0.67	5.8	35.0	11.7	3.80	62%
13 Seasons				2545	3.3%	10.8%	9.5%	7.1%	31%	1.14	8.2	26.9	7.0	1.05	76%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1963	24	DET	AL	1	0	48%	34	2	1	67%	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	67%	4	1	3	2	1	1	3	1	2
1964	25	DET	AL	5	0	37%	175	11	4	73%	11	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	8	54%	26	16	10	5	3	2	17	3	14
1965	26	DET	AL	4	0	35%	101	6	0	100%	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	55%	15	9	6	0	0	0	7	1	6
1966	27	DET	AL	3	0	35%	81	3	0	100%	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	4	33%	7	5	2	3	2	1	5	3	2
1967	28	DET	AL	2	0	54%	33	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	50%	9	6	3	1	0	1	2	0	2
1968	29	DET	AL	0	0	23%	36	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	33%	8	6	2	1	1	0	3	1	2
1969	30	DET	AL	2	0	50%	32	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	46%	8	5	3	0	0	0	5	2	3
1970	31	DET	AL	2	0	33%	46	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	50%	8	3	5	3	2	1	3	2	1
1971	32	DET	AL	2	0	33%	108	4	2	67%	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	44%	15	10	5	3	2	1	5	1	4
1972	33	DET	AL	1	0	30%	87	3	0	100%	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	50%	12	8	3	2	1	1	10	2	8
1973	34	DET	AL	5	0	28%	162	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	9	49%	16	10	6	9	4	5	10	4	6
1974	35	DET	AL	0	0	10%	16	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	20%	4	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
1975	36	DET	AL	1	0	0%	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13 Seasons				28	0	33%	912	30	8	79%	30	8	0	0	0	0	5	0	20	49	48%	132	81	49	29	16	13	71	21	50
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1963	24	DET	AL	93	90%	22			29	5	1	4	1.63	2	0	5	2	0	0	2	0	0	0		20	3	15%	13	5	38%	73	12	16%	7	3	43%	6	5	83%	0
1964	25	DET	AL	465	78%	116			19	4	1	1	1.53	15	0	9	12	3	9	6	0	2	2	100%	88	6	7%	48	19	40%	287	39	14%	21	8	38%	22	12	55%	0
1965	26	DET	AL	248	87%	58			34	9	1	5	2.08	10	1	11	10	0	5	5	0	2	3	150%	54	3	6%	19	8	42%	184	35	19%	17	10	59%	13	3	23%	1
1966	27	DET	AL	193	90%	45			40	13	2	8	1.27	7	0	6	6	1	4	3	0	0	0		43	3	7%	20	7	35%	116	21	18%	15	7	47%	10	6	60%	0
1967	28	DET	AL	105	70%	17			25	4	0	2	1.73	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0		26	3	12%	5	1	20%	80	9	11%	6	4	67%	8	6	75%	0
1968	29	DET	AL	104	98%	34			40	18	3	7	1.83	6	0	3	6	0	5	1	0	0	0		25	2	8%	9	2	22%	68	9	13%	4	3	75%	5	1	20%	0
1969	30	DET	AL	100	96%	19			39	8	0	5	1.62	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0		27	2	7%	9	3	33%	69	5	7%	7	3	43%	2	1	50%	0
1970	31	DET	AL	148	95%	28			41	10	1	10	2.01	3	0	12	3	0	1	2	0	0	0		38	3	8%	19	8	42%	126	22	17%	12	9	75%	9	7	78%	0
1971	32	DET	AL	218	97%	66			26	9	2	3	2.10	11	0	3	10	1	4	7	0	0	0		49	4	8%	26	10	38%	133	19	14%	14	4	29%	17	10	59%	0
1972	33	DET	AL	283	95%	58			28	4	1	3	1.66	10	0	4	9	1	7	3	0	0	0		57	7	12%	20	8	40%	167	21	13%	13	7	54%	18	3	17%	0
1973	34	DET	AL	433	96%	89			4	0	0	0	4.51	12	0	8	12	0	9	3	0	0	0		103	15	15%	42	17	40%	293	41	14%	24	11	46%	23	12	52%	0
1974	35	DET	AL	109	94%	24			53	16	3	7	2.27	4	0	5	3	1	4	0	0	0	0		23	1	4%	13	6	46%	82	13	16%	7	5	71%	7	4	57%	0
1975	36	DET	AL	45	96%	6			35	6	1	3	1.90	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0		13	2	15%	6	1	17%	41	2	5%	5	1	20%	3	1	33%	0
13 Seasons				2544	90%	582			413	106	16	58	1.85	84	1	71	75	9	50	34	0	4	5	125%	566	54	10%	249	95	38%	1719	248	14%	152	75	49%	143	71	50%	1
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1963	24	55	93	82	16	22	3	1	2	14	2	1	8	13	.268	.333	.402	.736	103	33	3	1	0	2	0
1964	25	178	558	508	81	138	25	7	17	68	13	5	39	66	.272	.327	.449	.776	112	228	9	5	2	4	0
1965	26	274	807	735	114	196	39	9	27	111	19	5	56	99	.267	.320	.454	.775	113	334	12	5	5	6	1
1966	27	362	1000	904	141	241	44	10	34	138	22	5	74	118	.267	.324	.450	.774	114	407	15	7	5	10	3
1967	28	413	1105	995	158	258	45	11	36	147	22	5	87	133	.259	.320	.435	.755	110	433	18	7	5	11	3
1968	29	480	1209	1087	173	292	52	13	42	162	22	5	99	137	.269	.331	.456	.787	120	496	20	7	5	11	4
1969	30	540	1309	1180	186	311	53	15	43	168	22	5	104	154	.264	.324	.443	.768	114	523	22	8	5	12	4
1970	31	621	1457	1304	204	339	56	15	46	192	22	5	124	168	.260	.325	.432	.757	111	563	25	9	5	15	4
1971	32	703	1675	1499	241	405	58	18	57	221	26	7	145	185	.270	.336	.447	.783	118	670	29	11	5	15	6
1972	33	806	1958	1751	274	463	63	18	67	252	29	7	171	213	.264	.331	.436	.767	115	763	36	13	5	18	9
1973	34	931	2391	2128	322	552	74	19	79	302	30	8	223	254	.259	.331	.423	.754	111	901	51	14	5	21	15
1974	35	1004	2500	2227	329	576	76	19	83	319	30	8	233	269	.259	.330	.422	.752	110	939	52	14	5	21	17
1975	36	1051	2545	2262	330	582	78	19	84	322	30	8	242	275	.257	.330	.420	.750	110	950	54	15	5	21	18

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1963	24	55	93	82	16	22	3	1	2	14	2	8	13	.268	.333	.402	.736	11	55
1964	25	122	469	430	69	122	23	6	16	58	12	33	53	.284	.339	.477	.816	69	123
1965	26	96	252	232	36	63	15	2	11	47	7	18	33	.272	.321	.496	.817	37	96
1966	27	89	201	175	30	50	6	1	8	30	3	20	19	.286	.358	.469	.827	29	88
1967	28	51	109	93	20	19	1	1	2	11	0	15	15	.204	.312	.301	.613	9	51
1968	29	67	111	97	19	39	8	2	7	19	0	14	4	.402	.477	.742	1.220	35	67
1969	30	60	101	94	14	20	1	2	1	6	0	5	17	.213	.257	.298	.555	7	60
1970	31	81	151	126	18	30	3	0	3	25	0	21	14	.238	.344	.333	.678	15	81
1971	32	83	224	200	40	70	2	3	12	31	4	22	17	.350	.420	.570	.990	47	82
1972	33	108	308	272	42	69	6	0	12	40	4	31	29	.254	.331	.408	.739	37	103
1973	34	125	435	378	50	90	11	1	12	52	1	53	41	.238	.331	.368	.699	46	125
1974	35	73	113	102	8	27	2	0	4	20	0	11	15	.265	.336	.402	.738	14	73
1975	36	47	45	35	1	6	2	0	1	3	0	9	6	.171	.356	.314	.670	4	47
13 Seasons		1057	2612	2316	363	627	83	19	91	356	33	260	276	.271	.345	.441	.786	360	1051
162 Game Avg.		162	400	355	56	96	13	3	14	55	5	40	42	.271	.345	.441	.786	55	1051

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Triples s c a p y
1964 AL--6--9th

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1964 AL--12.7--9th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink Batting - 1 (2250), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 10 (1681), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Joe Collins (958)
Greg Norton (952)
Glenn Braggs (946)
Jerry Martin (944)
Darrin Jackson (942)
Bobby Darwin (940)
Dave Clark (939)
Daryl Boston (939)
Leon Roberts (937)
Lee Walls (936)

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Sam Bowens (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jody Gerut (969) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Craig Monroe (972) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jim King (982) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Sandy Amoros (969) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Shane Spencer (977) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Carmen Castillo (973) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Matt Mieske (967) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave Clark (963) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Greg Norton (957) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Greg Norton (955) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Greg Norton (952) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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Name and misspellings: William Gates James Brown

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Gray Ink	Batting - 1 (2250), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 10 (1681), Average HOFer ≈ 50