George Howard Brett (Mullet)

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: May 15, 1953 in Glen Dale, WV
High School: El Segundo HS (El Segundo, CA)
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 2nd round of the 1971 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 2, 1973 (Age 20)   vs. CHW 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Team: Royals 1973-1993
Agents: Dennis Gilbert [*]
Final Game: October 3, 1993 (Age 40)   vs. TEX 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 1999 (488/497 ballots).
   View George Brett Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Relatives: Brother of Ken Brett
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• 4/14 NY Baseball Digest: Mark Teixeira Needs To Adjust His Approach or His Career Could be Over: The Yankees have started the season 4-4 despite the fact they have been without the expected quality pitching of ace CC Sabathia...
• 4/6 The Writer's Journey: Baseball’s Greatest Games: Derek Jeter’s 3,000th Hit (2011): Baseball’s Greatest Games: Derek Jeter’s 3,000th Hit New Video, 2011 Approx. 3 hrs. + extras With all of the scandals...
• 4/5 NY Baseball Digest: Season Preview: 2012 Mets Not Measured in Wins & Losses: When you look at the 2012 Mets’ roster you can’t logically predict anything more than 75-77 wins. That best case scenario...

• 3/30 Bus League Baseball: The Bizarro Hall of Fame: The Class of 1988: The Bizarro Hall of Fame was a series I ran on my old blog, One More Dying Quail, in 2007. It consists of players who appeared...
• 3/24 The Writer's Journey: We Got To Play Baseball by Gregg Olson and Ocean Palmer (2011): We Got To Play Baseball: 60 Stories from Men Who Played the Game by Gregg Olson and Ocean Palmer Strategic Book Publishing, 2011...
• 3/22 FanSided: 2012 Chipper’s Last Season...
• 3/21 FanSided: Is Alex Gordon the Royals Best Option to Leadoff?: [caption id="attachment_12513" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Royals will likely ask Gordon to leadoff and aggressively...
• 3/20 High Heat Stats: All-time HR leaders by team among single-franchise players (prepare to be amazed!): I started tweeting some of this last night and realized it would make a pretty awesome post. Among players who played their entire...
• 3/13 High Heat Stats: Can Derek Catch Honus?:   Barring injury, Derek Jeter will this season likely pass Cal Ripken and Robin Yount to become the all-time career Hits...
• 3/13 High Heat Stats: Quiz – Make Mine a Ruben with Chili: This quiz may be a little tougher (I think). But you guys are sharp, so no doubt you’ll surprise me. Here’s a list...
• 3/6 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY FANS WILL MAKE THIS YANKEES, RED SOX RIVALRY BLOODIER THAN EVER: Growing up, the Yankees and the Red Sox were always a good ticket. I never went to a Yankees/Red Sox game until I was in my 20’s....
• 3/6 WasWatching: Baseball’s True Iron Men: Players with 16+ seasons of qualifying for the batting title - Rk   Yrs From To Age   1 Cap Anson 22 1876 1897 24-45 Ind. Seasons...

• 2/17 High Heat Stats: Gary Carter 1954-2012: The inevitable has happened, with Gary Carter’s passing today from cancer. Carter had a very large personality and had a...
• 2/15 MLB Dirt: Catching Up With Cincinnati Reds Prospect Scott Carroll: Right-handed pitcher Scott Carroll is one of the best pure athletes in the minor leagues. As a high schooler, in addition to baseball...
• 2/8 High Heat Stats: Walk rates for hitters in uncertain pursuit of 3,000 hits: At Andy’s suggestion (see comment #17 here), I did a quick-and-dirty study of late-career walk rates for players who finished...
• 2/3 Ramblings of Baseball: What To Wear XXI: Kansas City Royals The Royals jersey is a big reason why I decided to write up these selections. A gentleman at work showed up...

• 1/26 WasWatching: 1,706+ Career Games & Playing For Just One Team: It’s a gang of 55! Rk Player WAR/pos G   From To Age PA OPS Tm 1 Stan Musial 127.8 3026 1 1941 1963 20-42 12712 .976 STL...
• 1/16 Bus League Baseball: All-Time MLB Draft: Introduction and Round 1 (Picks 1-50): At least a year ago, maybe longer, I had an idea: wouldn’t it be cool to go through every draft pick in major league history,...
• 1/15 High Heat Stats: The Oldest Pair of Starting ________ in a Game: Years ago when I was a child, I remember it being a  big deal that the American League featured two 42 year old catchers,...
• 1/13 High Heat Stats: The 10 most under-appreciated players of the 1980s: #1 Dwayne Murphy: Oakland Athletics outfielder Dwayne Murphy tops our countdown of the most under-appreciated players of the 1980s. If you're disappointed,...
• 1/13 NY Baseball Digest: Do You Agree With George Brett on the DH?: The Designated Hitter has been a debated topic over here for a while. The weak support for Edgar Martinez‘s Hall of Fame...
• 1/11 Kings of Kauffman: Willie Wilson and the Lost Art of Baserunning: Willie Wilson and George Brett celebrate together Quick – Who is the greatest Royals hitter ever?  That’s easy, the answer...
• 1/11 High Heat Stats: The 10 most under-appreciated players of the 1980s: #5 Von Hayes: Von Hayes got a raw deal.He came up with so-so Indians teams that basically did very little.Then he got traded in an infamous...
• 1/10 High Heat Stats: WAAS: Wins Above All-Star Level: (Errors in the HOF list in an earlier version of this post have been corrected.)In two recent columns (insider),...
• 1/9 High Heat Stats: The 10 most under-appreciated players of the 1980s: #10 Dwight Evans: Dwight Evans is the biggest star on our countdown. On the one hand, it seems like he couldn't be under-appreciated--he was a...
• 1/8 Royally Speaking: The Consistently Good Billy Butler: Nothing gets the Royals section of twitter raging like a good old fashion Billy Butler debate. Due to his great second half the...
• 1/3 Baseball Musings: Hall Predictions: Chris Jaffe runs the numbers on the Hall of Fame voting and shows Barry Larkin gaining election easily. Strength of ballot This...

• 12/31 The Daily Catch: Carlos Beltran Is A Cardinal: This article is courtesy of our friends at Royally Speaking Written by Jeff Parker. My three favorite players of all time, unsurprisingly,...
• 12/29 El Maquino: MY BASEBALL HALL OF FAME: > In the past few days, I’ve caught some flack because I think the Hall of Fame’s standards are nosediving, while...
• 12/26 El Maquino: DONE WITH THE BASEBALL HALL: > The Baseball Hall of Fame train is speeding towards the cliff of illegitimacy; and I’m jumping off of it before it...
• 12/26 Royally Speaking: Royally Speaking's 7 Most Po**** Posts of 2011: When 2011 began I was this close to turning out the lights here. There were several factors involved in that almost-decision but...
• 12/24 Royally Speaking: Carlos Beltran Is A Cardinal: My three favorite players of all time, unsurprisingly, are all Royals. In order they are Freddie Patek, George Brett and Carlos...
• 12/24 NY Baseball Digest: David Wright Deserves to Go to Philly and Win: The picture of David Wright and Jose Reyes celebrating with cigars after the 2006 NL East division championship seems like...
• 12/17 Kings of Kauffman: The Cautionary Tale of the 1990 Royals: If you were a Royals fan in 1989, things looked good. George Brett, even at 36 years old and still injury-prone as ever, put up...
• 12/13 High Heat Stats: Metsclusive: The Best Single Franchise Players for Each Team: Jose Reyes's  departure for South Florida makes him the latest Mets star to get away. In fact, very few players of any value...
• 12/13 High Heat Stats: Aramis Ramirez: the yummiest of the Three Musketeers: Don't ask me about the title of this post. Whenever I think about Aramis Ramirez, my brain goes to the Three Musketeers, one...
• 12/12 High Heat Stats: Win Probability Added (Jose Bautista posts an all-time great season): Here's a look at Win Probability Added (WPA) leaders in 2011. Turns out we saw a little bit of history. Rk Player WPA ...
• 12/10 The Writer's Journey: Retired Numbers: #5: Six (and one likely future) Hall of Famers are among those honored with the retirement uniform #5. We also have our first executive,...
• 12/9 El Maquino: MORE THAN “JUST A BUSINESS”: > Albert Pujols took out a full-page ad in the Post-Dispatch today: I want to thank each and every one of you sincerely from...
• 12/8 High Heat Stats: Baseball behemoths: rolling three-year WAR leaders (batters edition): Here are the leaders among batters in total Wins Above Replacement (WAR, from Baseball-reference.com) over each 3-year period...
• 12/5 El Maquino: RON SANTO SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN INDUCTED: > Ron Santo got in the Hall of Fame today.  Which is a total sham. The career .277 hitter has been rightfully kept out of...
• 12/2 WasWatching: Old Regulars Who Didn’t Star: Since 1901, how many players had 4+ seasons where they were at least 36-years old, played at least 100 games, and did not reach...

• 11/29 WasWatching: Best Seasons By An Old Full-Time D.H.: Here’s one list on that - Rk Player WAR/pos Year Age Tm G PA R HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG 1 Dave Winfield 3.7 1992 40 TOR...
• 11/14 Classic Minnesota Twins: Remembering Kirby Puckett's Game 6 of the 1991 World Series: October 26, 1991. It was twenty years ago today...It was the day that defined the legacy and history of Kirby Puckett's...
• 11/10 High Heat Stats: Projecting Prince Fielder's career: Prince Fielder has been a beast over the last 3 years. He missed only 1 game in that time while posting a 155 OPS+.Since 1901,...
• 11/9 High Heat Stats: 180 OPS+ with a max of 30 HRs: Miguel Cabrera became the first qualifying hitter since 1995 to have an OPS+ of at least 180 while hitting no more than 30 HRs....

• 10/23 B-R Blog: Albert Pujols’ not very good 3-HR game: Albert Pujols went 5-for-6 last night with 3 homers and 6 RBI. Not bad for a guy who some thought was washed up. It was a great...
• 10/17 Baseball Reality Tour: Top 5 Hitters of the Past 30 Years: Last month, when Manny Ramirez shamefully made it back into the news, our Already Missing Manny blog post received a...
• 10/10 B-R Blog: 4 extra-base hits in a postseason game: In game 2 of the NLCS, Albert Pujols went 4-5 with a HR and three 2Bs, driving in the first 4 runs in the Cards' series-tying...
• 10/4 B-R Blog: Beltre belts Rays out of first round: There's a 6th member of the Postseason 3-HR-Game fraternity. Adrian Beltre connected in the top of the 7th off Matt Moore for...
• 10/2 Royally Speaking: 200: I missed most of the controversy that surrounded Melky Cabrera's pursuit of a 200 hit season, which is for the best...

• 9/28 PaulLebowitz.com: Jose Reyes Does What Baseball Players Do Sometimes…Especially Late In The Season: Players have pulled themselves out of games in the interests of individual pursuits forever. They’ve adjusted their competitiveness...
• 9/23 i70baseball.com: Top 10 Royals Outfielder SeasonsRanking the best outfield seasons in Royals history....
• 9/19 i70baseball.com: The Day .400 Slipped Away: The broiling heat of 1980 finally subsided, but not before school started in the fall. As August rolled into September and football...
• 9/13 B-R Blog: Recapping Monday 9/12/11: No one’s clinched yet: -- Rays 5, Orioles 2: Reason #755 why I don't bet on sports: This seemed like the classic "trap" game: Coming off a sweep of Boston,...
• 9/8 NY Baseball Digest: Nyjer Morgan Trash Talk, Yanks Road Trip,The Rise of Manny Acosta, Interview with Ken Singleton: One of my least favorite players is Nyjer Morgan. We talked about how the game usually takes care of bad behavior. John Lackey...

• 8/30 i70baseball.com: Royals Announce Minor League AwardsThe Kansas City Royals have named their Minor League Pitchers and Players of the Year for their respective affiliates....
• 8/30 i70baseball.com: Alex Gordon 2.0What a ride it has been so far for Alex Gordon....
• 8/22 B-R Blog: Multiple Multiple Home Run Games by Quadragenarians: When Jim Thome hit his 599th and 600th home runs in the same game, it was the second time this season in which the 40 year old...
• 8/19 i70baseball.com: Royals Five Year Bests: PitchersLooking at the top Royals pitchers by WAR by five year periods . ...
• 8/18 The Captain's Blog: Double Trouble: Failure to Protest Compounds Umpire’s Costly Error: Every time an umpire blows a significant call, there is the usual clamoring for instant replay. However, even that fail safe proved...
• 8/17 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 7-11 Keith Hernandez: 1984 7-11 KEITH HERNANDEZ Here’s a little relic from the Renaissance… In the summer of ’84, 7-11 sealed these...
• 8/16 i70baseball.com: George Brett: 30 Games In 1980George Brett has the longest hit streak in Royals history, and it was an impressive 30 game stretch....
• 8/12 Royally Speaking: Best Royals Infields: I was writing my weekly column for the St. Joseph News Press when I realized that due to lack of real estate I was running the...
• 8/5 i70baseball.com: Royals Five Year Bests: Position PlayersLooking at the top Royals position players by WAR by five year periods ....
• 8/1 Royally Speaking: Billy being Billy: The fans that have been unimpressed with Billy Butler's lofty on-base percentage all year were finally silent last week when Billy...

• 7/24 B-R Blog: Notes for Saturday 7/23: Dog days’ journey into night: -- Season debut for Tampa's Desmond Jennings: 3-2-2-1, 2 walks, 3B, 2B, SB, field littered with comic-book "swoosh!" lines. In...
• 7/22 Royally Speaking: Team Billy: One of the more inexplicable storylines being played out this season is the hostility a section of the fanbase has directed at...
• 7/21 B-R Blog: Most Career Post-Season Triples: How many players have 2 or more triples in the post-season? Here is the list - Rk Player #Matching   PA AB H 2B 3B 6 HR RBI...
• 7/20 Baseball Musings: Hall of Fame Day: I just received this press release from MLB Network on their Hall of Fame coverage this Sunday: Twelve-time All-Star Roberto Alomar,...
• 7/17 The Writer's Journey: I’m slowly coming around on Rolen’s career: Sometime last year, someone mentioned that Scott Rolen had a decent shot of making the Hall of Fame. Not first ballot, mind you....
• 7/12 22gigantes.com: My worst All-Star memory: Hammaker's 83 Fleer. Today's a day to feel proud. You're a Panda-hat-rockin', cheesy-grin-jockin', B-Weezy-screaming, Orange-and-Black-redeeming,...
• 7/12 The Captain's Blog: Cap Anson and the 3,000 Hit Club’s Revolving Door: To some Yankees’ fans, Derek Jeter’s pursuit of 3,000 hits has seemed to last an eternity. Although the Captain isn’t far...
• 7/12 B-R Blog: 9+ Games Of aLI>=1.3, and WPA>=.37 and RE24>=2.5: Fooling around with Play Index, I asked it show me players with the most games where: aLI>=1.3, and WPA>=.37 and RE24>=2.5...
• 7/12 B-R Blog: 9+ TB In 9-Inning Game Age 37+ Since 1919: How many players, since 1919, had a game, where the contest was 9 innings or less, where they were at least 37-years old and had...
• 7/1 Royally Speaking: 81 down, 81 to go: Only five teams in franchise history have had a worse record after 81 games than this years Royals (33-48). This probably surprises no...

• 6/20 B-R Blog: 2500/500/100/200 Club: How many major league players have 2,500+ hits, 500+ doubles, 100+ triples and 200+ homeruns in their career? Here's the list...
• 6/13 B-R Blog: Active players who have played for just one franchise: Check out the top 25 active players for most PAs with just one team in the majors: Rk Player PA From To Age G Pos Tm 1 Derek Jeter...
• 6/10 B-R Blog: On Base 4000+ Times (Including ROE ): How many players in baseball history have reached base, including via an error, 4,000 times or more in the career? Here's the...

• 5/25 B-R Blog: 2,975+ Hits Since 1919 By BABIP: What would it look like if you took all the players to have 2,975+ career hits since 1919 and ordered them by their BA on Balls...
• 5/14 B-R Blog: How much longer will Jorge Posada play?: I don't know the answer to the title question. I have a hard time imagining the Yankees continuing to play Posada if he continues...
• 5/12 NY Baseball Digest: Managing Expectations With David Wright: Recently, many fans have been critical of the play of David Wright. Before you completely lose perspective on his current slow...

• 4/27 NY Baseball Digest: Derek Jeter, Tony Gwynn, and Omar Vizquel: Two hits last night raised Derek Jeter‘s batting average to .259, but the fact that a majority have been of the swinging...
• 4/12 Royally Speaking: Opening day - Hall of Fame edition: We've covered individual hitting and pitching performances this week so for today I thought I'd check to see the career...
• 4/5 PaulLebowitz.com: Hammering: Scott Kazmir‘s precarious position in the Angels starting rotation got me to—again—think about why teams insist...

• 3/30 B-R Blog: On Base 4+ Times In Game 1 – Three Times Or More: Since 1919, how many batters have reached base 4+ times in his team's first game of the season, three times or more in his career?...
• 3/28 Baseball Musings: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: Ryan Zimmerman talks about signing an extensions with the Nationals sooner than later: “If you get to two years left [before]...
• 3/24 NY Baseball Digest: Will DiMaggio’s Streak Ever Be Broken?: Kostya Kennedy, author of the new Joe DiMaggio book “56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports,” joined...
• 3/18 B-R Blog: Bloops: The Hall of (Peak-Weighted) WAR: Here's a cool link from Adam Darowski: Hall of wWAR: The Hall of Fame Re-Po**** by Peak-Weighted WAR It is exactly what it sounds...
• 3/17 Baseball Musings: Shouldering the Burden: Via Rob Neyer, Joe Posnanski lists the players who did the most offensively to carry their teams to a World Series victory since...
• 3/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Eric Chavez, One-Time Future Hall of Famer: Joel Sherman (one of my favorite writers and I say this every time I mention him) had a great article today about new-to-the-Yankees...
• 3/3 MLBTradeRumors: Poll: The Next Winning Royals Team: They've had a winning season more recently than the Pirates, but the last quarter century has not been kind to the Royals. The...
• 3/1 Baseball Musings: Remaking Francoeur: Jeff Francoeur lost a lot of weight. While I don’t think being bulky was his problem, I’m glad to see he’s once...

• 2/24 B-R Blog: More homers than strikeouts in a season: A reader asked me to post a list of all seasons where a batter had more home runs than strikeouts, minimum 20 homers. There have...
• 2/10 Call to the Pen: Safety In Numbers: One Gork, One Flare: When comparing players, I think the hunch sometimes is to ignore the small differences in things like walkrates or strikeout rates...
• 2/10 Royally Speaking: Top seasons by age: Yesterday's post on the best and worst age 27 seasons in Royals history got me wondering about the best performance's of all ages,...
• 2/10 NY Baseball Digest: Did Jerry Manuel Ruin David Wright’s Swing?: Last night, Kevin Kernan of the NY Post talked baseball with me on my radio show. He’s been spending the last couple of...
• 2/9 Royally Speaking: Remember when Alex Gordon was the next George Brett?: It's getting harder and harder to recall when Alex Gordon last wore the next George Brett label, from ages 23-26 Gordon has hit...
• 2/2 Royally Speaking: The 1978 Royals: Michael Engel has a post up at Kings of Kauffman about one thing the 2011 Royals have going for them, team speed. He references...

• 1/25 B-R Blog: 3+ Games With 2B/3B/HR Since 1920: Conventional wisdom suggests that the single is the easiest part of hitting for the cycle. So, what about the "hard" part? Since...
• 1/23 Call to the Pen: Safety In Numbers: The Wonder Year: What would you do if I said you could have one year of phenomenal success in whatever field you wanted, but you’d either...
• 1/23 Call to the Pen: Safety In Numbers: The Wonder Year: What would you do if I said you could have one year of phenomenal success in whatever field you wanted, but you’d either...
• 1/20 Call to the Pen: Safety In Numbers: The Wonder Year: What would you do if I said you could have one year of phenomenal success in whatever field you wanted, but you’d either...
• 1/19 Baseball Press: The Effects of the Designated Hitter: Edgar Martinez was an excellent hitter who spent a long time as DH. (Getty) The designated hitter was conceived by Connie...
• 1/14 Baseball Reality Tour: No Pressure, Starlin!: Is it fair to compare 20-year old Starlin Castro with 36-year old, 5-time World Champion, future Hall of Famer, Derek Jeter? Well,...
• 1/13 B-R Blog: 2000+ Games Played For One Team Only: How many players in baseball history have played 2,000+ games in their career - with all those games being for the same team and...
• 1/10 B-R Blog: 39+ Games As DH With WPA >= .15: So, who are the leaders in terms of most games as a Designated Hitter where their WPA in that contest was .15 or better? Here's...
• 1/3 Baseball Reality Tour: Triple-Slash Triple Crown Winners: The last time someone won the Triple Crown was over forty years ago, when Carl Yastrzemski did it for the Boston Red Sox in 1967...

• 12/31 Subjective Baseball: 2011 Hall of Fame: Just missing it (aka "The Hall of Very Good"): Today: players who merit serious consideration from me, but still get a "no."Note: I was originally going to pare my "players...
• 12/31 Subjective Baseball: Top 10 Players Not in the Hall of Fame: Disclaimer: Yes, I know that MLB Network's "Prime 9" has covered this subject.  This site isn't a copy of that show, as I've...
• 12/15 B-R Blog: Similarity Scores – How Many Clicks to Babe Ruth?: Reader Matthew Bohnert wrote in describing a game that I've actually played myself with the Baseball-Reference.com player pages....
• 12/14 B-R Blog: Miguel Cabrera, Adrian Gonzalez, and 30 IBBs without 100 total BB in a season: Going back as far as we have intentional walk stats, here are the only guys to have at least 30 IBBs in a season without reaching...
• 12/1 Call to the Pen: Pen Polls: Zack Greinke and His Future With the Kansas City Royals: What should the Royals do with Zack Greinke? It’s become a hot topic not just in Kansas City but across the landscape of...

• 11/5 PaulLebowitz.com: They The Zombies: A world of oppression...and the leader of the resistance: Far be it from me to anoint myself as the leader of anything; such...

• 8/14 B-R Blog: Post 1919 Batters With Most 3+ HR Games: Alex Rodriguez hit three home runs in the Yankees game this evening. Since 1920, heading into today, which players had the most...
• 8/9 B-R Blog: Perfect Games – For Batters: How many batters, since 1920, have had 12+ "perfect days" at the plate in games where they had 4+ At Bats? By this, I mean, going...
• 8/3 B-R Blog: POLL: Larry Walker and the Hall of Fame: Larry Walker was one of the great young players with the early 1990s Expos and then became a star playing in numbers-inflating...

• 7/26 B-R Blog: One RBI while hitting for the cycle: 26 players have hit for the cycle since 1920 and managed only 1 RBI (coming on the home run, of course.) Click through for the...

• 6/4 B-R Blog: More Fun Than The Dating Game?: An interesting list via some tweaking of Play Index's Seasons Finder: Rk Player OPS+ HR G From To Age PA R H 2B 3B RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS 1 Reggie...

• 5/19 B-R Blog: WAR Data: Best Position Players Not In the Hall of Fame: Here's a post concept that's sure to be a lightning rod for discussion: who are the best position players not to be inducted into...

• 4/21 B-R Blog: Missing the cycle by a single: Earlier this season, the Rockies' Ian Stewart had his second career game where he missed the cycle by a single. This is the rarest...