Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 94
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 3 | |
| 1959 | 4 | |
| 1960 | 14 | |
| 1961 | 7 | |
| 1962 | 23 | |
| 1963 | 11 | |
| 1964 | 28 | |
| 1965 | 18 | |
| 1966 | 23 | |
| 1967 | 22 | |
| 1968 | 17 | |
| 1969 | 23 | |
| 1970 | 18 | |
| 1971 | 20 | |
| 1972 | 8 | |
| 1973 | 9 | |
| 1974 | 7 | |
| 1975 | 6 | |
| 1976 | 3 | |
| 1977 | 4 |
Data sources
- MLB
- Baseball Reference
- National Baseball Hall of Fame
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Brooks Robinson ranks #28 in Baseball
Brooks Robinson ranks 28th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 337th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 87.6 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 90, Longevity 94, Honours 88, Statistics 88. Those categories are normalised against the full Baseball reference universe of 262 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1955–1977 with 20 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1964, which sets the Peak component at 90. Longevity is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes gold gloves 16, all-star selections 15, world series titles 2, mvp awards 1.
Immediately ahead sits Satchel Paige on 88.3, a gap of 0.7 points. Directly behind is Carl Yastrzemski on 87.4. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Brooks Robinson GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Robinson stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1964. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity94/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 22 years of competition and 20 recorded seasons. Scored 94/100.
- Honours88/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 88/100.
- Statistics88/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 88/100.
Top Robinson comparisons
Brooks Robinson — frequently asked
- Is Brooks Robinson the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Brooks Robinson ranks 28th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 87.6, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Brooks Robinson's GOAT Score?
- 87.6 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 94 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Brooks Robinson rank all time?
- 337th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 28th within Baseball.
- Brooks Robinson vs Satchel Paige: who ranks higher?
- Satchel Paige, on 88.3 against Brooks Robinson's 87.6 — a margin of 0.7 points.