George Brett

1973–1993 · 21 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1953

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1973	Kansas City Royals	AL	13	41	40	2	5	2	0	0	0	0	5	0	.125	.125	.175	.300	-0.4
1974	Kansas City Royals	AL	133	486	457	49	129	21	5	2	47	21	38	8	.282	.313	.363	.676	1.0
1975	Kansas City Royals	AL	159	697	634	84	195	35	13	11	90	46	49	13	.308	.353	.456	.809	4.9
1976	Kansas City Royals	AL	159	705	645	94	215	34	14	7	67	49	36	21	.333	.377	.462	.839	7.4
1977	Kansas City Royals	AL	139	627	564	105	176	32	13	22	88	55	24	14	.312	.373	.532	.905	6.6
1978	Kansas City Royals	AL	128	558	510	79	150	45	8	9	62	39	35	23	.294	.342	.467	.809	4.7
1979	Kansas City Royals	AL	154	701	645	119	212	42	20	23	107	51	36	17	.329	.376	.563	.939	8.7
1980MVPSS	Kansas City Royals	AL	117	515	449	87	175	33	9	24	118	58	22	15	.390	.454	.664	1.118	9.9
1981	Kansas City Royals	AL	89	379	347	42	109	27	7	6	43	27	23	14	.314	.361	.484	.846	3.6
1982	Kansas City Royals	AL	144	629	552	101	166	32	9	21	82	71	51	6	.301	.378	.505	.884	6.5
1983	Kansas City Royals	AL	123	525	464	90	144	38	2	25	93	57	39	0	.310	.385	.563	.947	5.8
1984	Kansas City Royals	AL	104	422	377	42	107	21	3	13	69	38	37	0	.284	.344	.459	.802	3.1
1985GGSS	Kansas City Royals	AL	155	665	550	108	184	38	5	30	112	103	49	9	.335	.436	.585	1.022	9.7
1986	Kansas City Royals	AL	124	529	441	70	128	28	4	16	73	80	45	1	.290	.401	.481	.881	4.9
1987	Kansas City Royals	AL	115	508	427	71	124	18	2	22	78	72	47	6	.290	.388	.496	.884	2.7
1988SS	Kansas City Royals	AL	157	681	589	90	180	42	3	24	103	82	51	14	.306	.389	.509	.898	5.8
1989	Kansas City Royals	AL	124	528	457	67	129	26	3	12	80	59	47	14	.282	.362	.431	.793	2.8
1990	Kansas City Royals	AL	142	607	544	82	179	45	7	14	87	56	63	9	.329	.387	.515	.902	5.0
1991	Kansas City Royals	AL	131	572	505	77	129	40	2	10	61	58	75	2	.255	.327	.402	.729	1.9
1992	Kansas City Royals	AL	152	637	592	55	169	35	5	7	61	35	69	8	.285	.330	.397	.727	2.3
1993	Kansas City Royals	AL	145	612	560	69	149	31	3	19	75	39	67	7	.266	.312	.434	.746	1.4
Career	21 seasons		2707	11624	10349	1583	3154	665	137	317	1596	1096	908	201	.305	.373	.487	.860	98.2

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.