Mike Brown

Michael Gary Brown

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: March 24, 1959 in Camden County, NJ
School: Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2nd round of the 1980 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1982
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Mariners 1982-1987
Agents: Steve Greenberg [*]
Final Game: August 15, 1987
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Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1980	21	BOS-min	A	3	4	.429	4.31	17	9		4	1	3	71.0	79	37	34	2	32	0	50	4	4	1			1.563	10.0	0.3	4.1	6.3	1.56	WHV · FLOR
1981	22	BOS-min	A	14	4	.778	1.49	21	21	0	12	6	0	145.0	94	32	24	9	39	5	144	3	1	3			0.917	5.8	0.6	2.4	8.9	3.69	WSM · CARL
1982	23	BOS-min	AA	9	6	.600	2.45	16	15	1	5	2	0	110.0	92	39	30	3	35	4	113	1	1	3			1.155	7.5	0.2	2.9	9.2	3.23	BRI · EL
1982	23	BOS	AL	1	0	1.000	0.00	3	0	3	0	0	0	6.0	7	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	24		1.333	10.5	0.0	1.5	6.0	4.00
1983	24	BOS	AL	6	6	.500	4.67	19	18	0	3	1	0	104.0	110	62	54	12	43	1	35	2	4	4	454	94	1.471	9.5	1.0	3.7	3.0	0.81
1984	25	BOS-min	AAA	6	3	.667	3.40	12	12	0	3	0	0	87.1	90	44	33	7	27	3	54	5	1	2			1.340	9.3	0.7	2.8	5.6	2.00	PAW · IL
1984	25	BOS	AL	1	8	.111	6.85	15	11	2	0	0	0	67.0	104	63	51	9	19	1	32	3	2	4	326	61	1.836	14.0	1.2	2.6	4.3	1.68
1985	26	BOS-min	AAA	2	5	.286	5.60	20	6	8	0	0	2	70.2	78	52	44	5	25	3	51	8	0	1			1.458	9.9	0.6	3.2	6.5	2.04	PAW · IL
1985	26	BOS	AL	0	0		21.60	2	1	0	0	0	0	3.1	9	8	8	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	22	22	3.600	24.3	0.0	8.1	8.1	1.00
1986	27	BOS-min	AAA	1	4	.200	4.68	7	7	0	1	0	0	42.1	51	27	22	4	16	0	27	0	0	0			1.583	10.8	0.9	3.4	5.7	1.69	PAW · IL
1986	27	TOT	AL	4	6	.400	5.79	21	12	2	0	0	0	73.0	91	49	47	14	36	1	41	1	1	4	334	73	1.740	11.2	1.7	4.4	5.1	1.14
1986	27	BOS	AL	4	4	.500	5.34	15	10	2	0	0	0	57.1	72	35	34	10	25	1	32	1	0	3	260	79	1.692	11.3	1.6	3.9	5.0	1.28
1986	27	SEA	AL	0	2	.000	7.47	6	2	0	0	0	0	15.2	19	14	13	4	11	0	9	0	1	1	74	58	1.915	10.9	2.3	6.3	5.2	0.82
1987	28	SEA-BAL-min	AAA	10	2	.833	4.15	23	20	1	3	0	0	130.0	122	69	60	10	63	3	64	2	1	3			1.423	8.4	0.7	4.4	4.4	1.02	CGY,ROC · PCL,IL
1987	28	SEA	AL	0	0		54.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	17	9.000	81.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1988	29	CLE-min	AAA	10	9	.526	6.12	26	20	4	6	2	1	139.2	175	101	95	14	47	5	95	6	12	6			1.589	11.3	0.9	3.0	6.1	2.02	CSP · PCL
6 Yrs				12	20	.375	5.75	61	42	7	3	1	0	253.2	324	184	162	35	102	3	115	6	8	12	1164	75	1.679	11.5	1.2	3.6	4.1	1.13
162 Game Avg.				8	13	.375	5.75	40	28	5	2	1	0	167	214	121	107	23	67	2	76	4	5	8	768	75	1.679	11.5	1.2	3.6	4.1	1.13

BOS (5 yrs)				12	18	.400	5.57	54	40	7	3	1	0	237.2	302	168	147	31	91	3	106	6	7	11	1086	77	1.654	11.4	1.2	3.4	4.0	1.16
SEA (2 yrs)				0	2	.000	8.44	7	2	0	0	0	0	16.0	22	16	15	4	11	0	9	0	1	1	78	53	2.063	12.4	2.3	6.2	5.1	0.82

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary
1982	23	BOS	AL	6.0	3	0	0	0.00	4.47	0.00	-0.35	96.9	3.99	3	0.3	.6	-0.1	0.3	3	.600	.502	$
1983	24	BOS	AL	104.0	19	18	62	5.37	4.34	-0.08	0.13	104.5	4.75	-7	-0.7	.6	-0.1	0.1	4	.461	.495	$
1984	25	BOS	AL	67.0	15	11	63	8.46	4.48	-0.19	0.05	104.1	4.91	-26	-2.4	.3	0.1	-1.7	-20	.343	.485	$
1985	26	BOS	AL	3.1	2	1	8	21.60	4.80	-0.07	-0.10	102.5	4.88	-6	-0.5	.0	0.1	-0.3	-6	.258	.497	$
1986	27	BOS	AL	57.1	15	10	35	5.49	4.64	-0.01	0.11	100.1	4.77	-5	-0.5	.6	-0.0	0.0	2	.469	.497	$80,000
1986	27	SEA	AL	15.2	6	2	14	8.04	4.86	-0.55	-0.08	101.1	5.40	-5	-0.4	.1	0.1	-0.2	-3	.426	.497	$
1987	28	SEA	AL	0.1	1	0	2	54.00	4.83	-0.27	-0.38	106.0	5.02	-2	-0.2	.1	0.1	-0.1	-2	.347	.499	$
6 Seasons				253.2	61	42	184	6.53	4.49	-0.12	0.08	103.0	4.82	-48	-4.3	.4	0.2	-1.9	-21	.429	.496	$80,000

BOS (5 yrs)				237.2	54	40	168	6.36	4.46	-0.09	0.09	103.1	4.78	-42	-3.7	.5	0.1	-1.6	-17	.431	.495	$80,000
SEA (2 yrs)				16.0	7	2	16	9.00	4.86	-0.54	-0.08	101.2	5.39	-6	-0.6	.1	0.1	-0.3	-5	.415	.498	$

Batting Against -- Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	BAbip	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	ROE
1982	23	BOS	AL	3	24	23	0	7	1	0	0	1	0	1	4	.304	.333	.348	.681	.368	8	1	0	0	0	0	0
1983	24	BOS	AL	19	454	398	62	110	25	3	12	15	3	43	35	.276	.345	.445	.790	.275	177	11	2	5	6	1	7
1984	25	BOS	AL	15	326	300	63	104	24	1	9	9	3	19	32	.347	.388	.523	.911	.363	157	4	3	1	3	1	11
1985	26	BOS	AL	2	22	18	8	9	3	1	0	1	0	3	3	.500	.545	.778	1.323	.563	14	0	0	0	1	0	0
1986	27	TOT	AL	21	334	291	49	91	16	4	14	10	4	36	41	.313	.387	.540	.926	.322	157	7	1	3	3	1	3
1986	27	BOS	AL	15	260	228	35	72	12	3	10	7	3	25	32	.316	.381	.526	.908	.328	120	6	1	3	3	1	2
1986	27	SEA	AL	6	74	63	14	19	4	1	4	3	1	11	9	.302	.405	.587	.993	.300	37	1	0	0	0	0	1
1987	28	SEA	AL	1	4	4	2	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	.750	.750	1.250	2.000	.750	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
6 Yrs				61	1164	1034	184	324	71	9	35	37	10	102	115	.313	.374	.501	.875	.322	518	23	6	9	13	3	21
162 Game Avg.				40	768	683	121	214	47	6	23	24	7	67	76	.313	.374	.501	.875	.322	342	15	4	6	9	2	14
MLB Averages																.260	.325	.394	.719	.285

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1982	23	BOS	AL	2.9	0.3	24	0.5	1.0	-0.5	1.80	0.1	0.1	3.0	0.3	1.80	2.2	1	0	1
1983	24	BOS	AL	-4.1	-0.4	482	-1.3	7.1	-8.4	.96	-0.5	-0.9	-9.9	-0.9	0.96	-5.2	0	0	1
1984	25	BOS	AL	-21.3	-2.0	346	-2.4	4.1	-6.5	.82	-2.3	-0.6	-29.6	-2.6	0.82	-26.1	0	0	3
1985	26	BOS	AL	-5.6	-0.5	24	-0.4	0.1	-0.6	.56	-0.6	-0.2	-5.9	-0.5	0.56	-6.6	0	0	1
1986	27	TOT	AL	-11.1	-1.1	355	-1.1	5.3	-6.4	.91	-1.8	0.6	-12.4	-1.2	0.91	-18.6	0	2	6
1986	27	BOS	AL	-5.9	-0.6	275	-0.9	4.5	-5.4	.98	-1.0	0.1	-6.5	-0.6	0.98	-11.3	0	2	2
1986	27	SEA	AL	-5.2	-0.5	80	-0.3	0.8	-1.0	.65	-0.8	0.4	-5.8	-0.5	0.65	-7.2	0	0	4
1987	28	SEA	AL	-1.5	-0.1	5	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	.23	-0.2	-0.0	-1.9	-0.2	0.23	-2.3	0	0	1
6 Yrs				-40.8	-3.8	1236	-4.9	17.6	-22.5	.91	-5.3	-0.0	-56.7	-5.1	0.91	-56.6	1	2	13

Starting Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GS	Wgs	Lgs	ND	Wchp	Ltuf	Wtm	Ltm	tmW-L%	Wlst	Lsv	CG	SHO	QS	QS%	GmScA	Best	Wrst	BQR	BQS	sDR	lDR	RS/GS	RS/IP	IP/GS
1983	24	BOS	AL	19	18	6	6	6	3	3	10	8	.556	1	3	3	1	7	39%	45.6	76	19	17	6	0	7	6.5	6.4	5.6
1984	25	BOS	AL	15	11	1	8	2	1	0	1	10	.091	0	1	0	0	1	9%	36.0	53	16	17	5	0	6	3.5	3.5	4.9
1985	26	BOS	AL	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0%	24.0	24	24	2	0	0	1	6.0	18.0	1.7
1986	27	TOT	AL	21	12	4	6	2	1	2	6	6	.500	0	1	0	0	5	42%	45.5	65	20	15	2	0	9	3.5	3.8	5.1
1986	27	BOS	AL	15	10	4	4	2	1	1	6	4	.600	0	1	0	0	4	40%	46.6	65	22	15	2	0	7	4.2	4.4	5.2
1986	27	SEA	AL	6	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	.000	0	0	0	0	1	50%	40.0	60	20	0	0	0	2	0.0	0.0	4.3
4 Yrs				57	42	11	20	11	5	5	17	25	.405	1	6	3	1	13	31%	43	76	16	51	13	0	23	4.8	5.1	5.2
MLB Averages													.500						50%	50	98	-12					4.4	4.4	6.2

Reliever Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GR	GF	Wgr	IR	IS	IS%	1^stIP	aLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo	Tie	Bhd	Runr	Empt	>3o	<3o	IPmult	Out/GR
1982	23	BOS	AL	3	3	3	1	0	0		8	1.800	1	0	1	1	2	0	3	1	0	1	6.0
1983	24	BOS	AL	19	1	0	0	0	0		4	.962	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	10.0
1984	25	BOS	AL	15	4	2	0	3	2	67%	1	.821	0	0	3	0	4	2	2	4	0	4	9.8
1985	26	BOS	AL	2	1	0	0	2	0	0%	6	.557	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	5.0
1986	27	TOT	AL	21	9	2	0	4	1	25%		.909	0	2	6	1	8	3	6	5	2	5	4.0
1986	27	BOS	AL	15	5	2	0	4	1	25%	5	.983	0	2	2	1	4	3	2	2	2	2	3.0
1986	27	SEA	AL	6	4	0	0	0	0		7	.647	0	0	4	0	4	0	4	3	0	3	5.3
1987	28	SEA	AL	1	1	0	0	0	0		1	.226	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1.0
6 Yrs				61	19	7	1	9	3	33%		.914	1	2	13	2	17	6	13	12	3	12	5.7

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1982	23	BOS	AL	24	38%	0.0%	16.7%	4.2%	4.2%	14%	1.80	79%	7	1	14%
1983	24	BOS	AL	454	52%	2.6%	7.7%	9.5%	8.8%	36%	0.92	79%	79	11	14%
1984	25	BOS	AL	326	48%	2.8%	9.8%	5.8%	10.4%	33%	1.28	80%	70	4	6%
1985	26	BOS	AL	22	45%	0.0%	13.6%	13.6%	18.2%	44%	2.50	73%	5	0	0%
1986	27	TOT	AL	334	52%	4.2%	12.3%	10.8%	10.2%	37%	1.12	72%	52	7	13%
1986	27	BOS	AL	260	51%	3.9%	12.3%	9.6%	9.6%	35%	1.19	73%	39	6	15%
1986	27	SEA	AL	74	54%	5.4%	12.2%	14.9%	12.2%	47%	0.89	68%	13	1	8%
1987	28	SEA	AL	4	100%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	50.0%	67%	0.00	100%	0	0
6 Yrs				1164	50%	3.0%	9.9%	8.8%	9.9%	36%	1.08	77%	213	23	11%
MLB Averages					41%	2.3%	14.3%	8.6%	6.9%	30%	1.08	74%			11%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

					Hits			Home Runs							Advances				Baserunning
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	H	Inf	Bnt	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	<2,3B	Scr	SO	%	ROE	WP	PB	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	BT	PAu
1982	23	BOS	AL	24	7			0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0%	0	0	0	9	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1983	24	BOS	AL	454	110			12	0	10	4	8	1	11	32	20	3	63%	7	4	1	159	15	3	83%	13	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	19	0
1984	25	BOS	AL	326	104			9	0	5	5	4	5	4	29	18	3	62%	11	4	1	133	9	3	75%	7	3	2	0	0	0	2	0	12	0
1985	26	BOS	AL	22	9			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	50%	0	0	0	14	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1986	27	TOT	AL	334	91			14	0	8	8	6	10	4	21	10	3	48%	3	4	0	119	10	4	71%	9	3	1	1	0	0	2	0	9	0
1986	27	BOS	AL	260	72			10	0	5	6	4	7	3	17	8	2	47%	2	3	0	87	7	3	70%	7	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	7	0
1986	27	SEA	AL	74	19			4	0	3	2	2	3	1	4	2	1	50%	1	1	0	32	3	1	75%	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
1987	28	SEA	AL	4	3			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	3	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6 Yrs				1164	324			35	0	24	17	18	16	19	86	49	9	57%	21	12	2	437	37	10	79%	32	8	5	2	0	0	6	0	42	0
MLB Averages																		53%							68%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1982	23	1	0	1.000	0.00	3	0	3	0	0	6.0	7	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	24		1.333	10.5	0.0	1.5	6.0	4.00
1983	24	7	6	.538	4.42	22	18	3	3	1	110.0	117	62	54	12	44	1	39	2	4	4	478	99	1.464	9.6	1.0	3.6	3.2	0.89	99
1984	25	8	14	.364	5.34	37	29	5	3	1	177.0	221	125	105	21	63	2	71	5	6	8	804	81	1.605	11.2	1.1	3.2	3.6	1.13	81
1985	26	8	14	.364	5.64	39	30	5	3	1	180.1	230	133	113	21	66	2	74	5	7	8	826	77	1.641	11.5	1.0	3.3	3.7	1.12	77
1986	27	12	20	.375	5.68	60	42	7	3	1	253.1	321	182	160	35	102	3	115	6	8	12	1160	76	1.670	11.4	1.2	3.6	4.1	1.13	76
1987	28	12	20	.375	5.75	61	42	7	3	1	253.2	324	184	162	35	102	3	115	6	8	12	1164	75	1.679	11.5	1.2	3.6	4.1	1.13	75

Neutralized Pitching

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	HR/9	Gact
1982	23	0	0		0.00	5.0	7	0	0	0	1	4	0	1.600	12.6	1.8	7.2	4.00	0.0	3
1983	24	5	6	.455	4.77	100.0	109	59	53	12	43	34	2	1.520	9.8	3.9	3.1	0.79	1.1	19
1984	25	2	5	.286	7.09	66.0	105	58	52	9	19	32	3	1.879	14.3	2.6	4.4	1.68	1.2	15
1985	26	0	0		24.00	3.0	9	9	8	0	3	3	0	4.000	27.0	9.0	9.0	1.00	0.0	2
1986	27	2	5	.286	6.35	68.0	92	53	48	14	36	38	1	1.882	12.2	4.8	5.0	1.06	1.9	21
1987	28	0	0		18.00	1.0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	1
6 Yrs		9	16	.360	6.04	243.0	322	181	163	35	102	111	6	1.745	11.9		4.1	1.09	1.3	61

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 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. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

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Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

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