Thomas Leo Browning

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: April 28, 1960 in Casper, WY
Schools: Tennessee Wesleyan College (Athens, TN), LeMoyne College (Syracuse, NY)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 9th round of the 1982 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 9, 1984 (Age 24)   vs. LAD 8.1 IP, 11 H, 4 SO, 2 BB, 1 ER, W
Teams (by GP): Reds/Royals 1984-1995
Agents: Bob Gilhooley,Jim Bronner [*]
Final Game: May 19, 1995 (Age 35)
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• 4/28 Baseball de World: Today in Baseball History – April 28: April 28, 1952 The St. Louis Browns send two minor league players, John Britton and Jim Newberry, to the Hankyu Braves of the...
• 4/5 StanGraphs: Perfect Games, Imperfect Opponents: On Tuesday night, Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish nearly became the 24th pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw......

• 2/8 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Hayes a Top Rookie With Cleveland Before Long Tenure in Philadelphia: By Craig Gifford In a career that was over much too soon due to a broken arm, Von Hayes was known best for being a sturdy run...
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• 12/11 That Ball's Outta Here: Cards On The Table: We Were Wrong About Von Hayes: Every now and then a professional athlete comes along that, for whatever reason, is strongly disliked by many in the fanbase....
• 12/5 Redlegs Review: More facts and info on Redsfest: Looking for more information on Redsfest? Here's the latest from the Reds.... FOX Sports Ohio Redsfest presented by PNC...

• 11/29 Blog Red Machine: How They Did What They Did: Homer Bailey:   Homer Bailey has had a rather shaky standing with Reds fans throughout his now 6 year major league career. Once a prize...
• 11/20 Redlegs Review: The greatest Reds fan gathering of the year is looming near: Believe it or not, Redsfest 2012 is now only 16 days away. It presents a great opportunity for fans to interact...

• 10/31 Redlegs Review: No. 2: Homer Bailey's no-hitter:   Today marks day 11 of the Top 12 Games of the Reds Season series. The campaign may have ended abruptly, and in...
• 10/27 Blog Red Machine: The Reds Fans Have Spoken! And the Winners Are…: All through last week, we had created polls concerning four separate categories for BRM’s year-end awards. Those categories...
• 10/26 Blog Red Machine: Arroyo’s Days in Cincinnati Have Been ‘Steady’: I recall during this past season where Thom Brennaman referenced the career of Bronson Arroyo. He said it won’t be known...

• 9/29 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers 3 Games Back With Five To Play: Dodgers Lineup vs. Colorado Punto 4 Ethier 9 Kemp 8 Gonzalez 3 Ramirez 6 Victorino 7 Cruz 5 Ellis 2 Blanton 1 Tyler Chatwood-5-5...
• 9/28 The Writer's Journey: Congratulations, Homer Bailey!: The seventh no-hitter of the 2012 season was pitched by none other than Homer Bailey of my Cincinnati Reds! The Pittsburgh Pirates...

• 7/22 Baseball Musings: Pitcher to Pitcher: In light of Matt Cain and Cole Hamels homering off each other on Saturday, the following is a list of the most home runs allowed...

• 5/28 High Heat Stats: Pitchers who earn their losses: A familiar television advertisement from years ago featured the actor John Houseman as pitch man for the investment firm Smith...
• 5/27 PaulLebowitz.com: A Halladay Injury Might Make Hamels Available: Pain in the back of the shoulder sounds pretty bad to me. Phillies’ ace Roy Halladay left today’s start against the Cardinals...
• 5/7 High Heat Stats: Humber stumbles again: In a prior post, we saw that a rough outing after a perfect game was not uncommon. But Philip Humber has now pitched three times...
• 5/3 High Heat Stats: I don’t beWeave what I just saw! (The prevalence of no-hitters): Jered Weaver threw the 10th regular-season no-hitter since in the majors since 2010 last night, defined as team pitching performances...

• 4/27 High Heat Stats: After a perfect game, few gems: Thursday night in Chicago, the BoSox raked Philip Humber for 9 earned runs in 5 IP, saddling him with a 17 Game Score. Is that...
• 4/27 The Captain's Blog: Humber Joins List of Imperfect Perfect Game Encores: Philip Humber’s attempt at a Perfect Game encore only lasted six pitches. After retiring all 27 batters against the Mariners...
• 4/26 Bus League Baseball: The Bizarro Hall of Fame: The Class of 1999: 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...
• 4/22 WasWatching: Fewest Career Wins Of Perfect Game Pitchers: With perfect games since 1918 - Rk Player W From To Age G GS L IP ERA ERA+ 1 Philip Humber 12 2006 2012 23-29 56 30 10 228.2 3.90...
• 4/10 High Heat Stats: Is Matt Cain the Unluckiest Pitcher Ever?: Of course, the answer to that question is a resounding NO. How unlucky could you be with the contract that Cain just signed? But,...
• 4/5 The Writer's Journey: Fun Cards: 2012 Topps Tom Browning: HAPPY OPENING DAY! The Cincinnati Reds opened the baseball season on the road only twice in the 20th century (and only four times...

• 12/6 The Writer's Journey: Redsfest 2011: Devin Mesoraco: We got word of the 1 p.m. signers while waiting in line for Tom Browning. The boys wanted to get Devin Mesoraco, and he was signing...
• 12/5 The Writer's Journey: Redsfest 2011: Tom Browning: My sons and I attended the 2011 Redsfest on Saturday, December 3. This was my fourth year going with my oldest son, and the first...

• 11/4 High Heat Stats: Bob Forsch: Holy crap--a second untimely death in two days as Bob Forsch passes away shortly after throwing out the first pitch at Game 7...

• 10/3 The Writer's Journey: Fun Cards: 1985 Topps Traded Buddy Bell: In the 1985 Topps Traded set, there were two Reds cards: Tom Browning and Alan Knicely. Browning was the highlight for the Cincinnati...

• 9/3 B-R Blog: Winning 15+ Games In 1st Or 2nd Season Since 1973: Which pitchers won 15 games or more during their first or second major league season since 1973? Here is the list - Rk Player...

• 8/24 Call to the Pen: Dominant Games: Tom Browning Perfect Game: It is swung on and missed. And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! 27 outs in a row and he is being mobbed by his teammates...
• 8/7 B-R Blog: Multiple Games of 9+ IP 0R without a Win: On Friday night,  Jered Weaver managed to pitch 9 innings without allowing a run and still not earn a win. Not only that, it...

• 7/30 B-R Blog: Derek Holland has 4 shutouts and a 4.14 ERA: Derek Holland shut out the Blue Jays in Toronto Saturday, his 4th shutout of the year and 3rd in his last 5 starts. He threw just...
• 7/6 B-R Blog: 3+ CG Shutouts Since 1973 With Less Than 100 Pitches: Since 1973, how many pitchers had 3+ CG shutouts where they threw less than 100 pitches in the contest? Here is the list - Rk...

• 6/30 The Writer's Journey: You know what I really love about baseball?: It’s not the home runs or the no-hitters, or even the pennant race. Sure, it’s great to see your team do well and...
• 6/23 B-R Blog: Cliff Lee’s consecutive shutouts and Kyle Lohse’s 0 BB, 0 K game: In last night's Phillies-Cardinals game, both starting pitchers did something pretty unusual. Cliff Lee pitched his second consecutive...

• 5/26 The Writer's Journey: OPC Group Break: Thoughts And Sox just recently hosted his first ever group break, and it was the first one I’ve ever particpated in…because...
• 5/24 The Writer's Journey: The Reds I grew up with: A fiercely aggressive Eric Davis… I love how the whole team joined in. I saw Ron Oester, Pete Rose, John Denny, John Franco,...

• 4/14 B-R Blog: Unlikely No-Hit Pitchers: One of the fun new things we can do with the PI is to sort the results of a game-finder search by a season finder. Here are all...

• 3/15 PaulLebowitz.com: Not Ready For CenterStage: Despite all the hype and lusty predictions regarding Yankees prospect Manny Banuelos, he’s not ready for the big leagues...
• 3/12 Blog Red Machine: Catching up with Tucker BarnhartI talked baseball with Reds minor league catcher Tucker Barnhart....
• 3/6 MLBTradeRumors: Highest Paid Players Of The Last Three Decades: It's no secret that baseball player salaries have exploded over the last two decades, but just how much? With some help from...

• 12/30 The Writer's Journey: Baseball in December!: They’re not on the field…they’re in the mail! GCRL sent over a nice stack o’ Redlegs, and will be receiving...
• 12/10 The Writer's Journey: Redsfest 2010: Ted Power: Appearing at the same time as Ron Oester in the Reds Hall of Fame section at Redsfest was Ted Power, who won 47 games for the...
• 12/7 The Writer's Journey: Redsfest 2010: Todd Frazier, Donnie Joseph, Zack Cozart: After Tom Browning, we decided to hit the minor league lines, expecting them to be short enough to get through before the session...
• 12/6 The Writer's Journey: Redsfest 2010: Tom Browning: I picked Joshua up from school a few minutes after 3:00 and headed straight for downtown Cincinnati to attend the 2010 Redsfest...

• 11/16 B-R Blog: Most Cheap Wins Since 1920: Bill James says that it's a “Cheap Win” when a starting pitcher wins a game where his Game Score was under 50. So, what pitchers...

• 5/30 B-R Blog: Roy Halladay’s perfect game: Well as you must know by now, Roy Halladay pitched a perfect game yesterday. This game goes right to the top of his list of best...
• 5/11 B-R Blog: Johnny’s Gem: Johnny Cueto pitched a gem of a game tonight for Cincinnati. Cueto shut down the Pirates, allowing only 1 hit and a hit batsman,...
• 5/9 B-R Blog: Perfect Dallas – Part 1: I don't have time for a detailed post right now, but here is a list to start you off. Dallas Braden's perfect game today was...