He became a top player for the Unicorns and helped them win consecutive Korean Series titles, while Brumbaugh won the Golden Glove Award and was league batting champion in 2004.
"[5] In his first year at Delaware, 1993, Brumbaugh started in 47 of 49 games and helped the team to a record of 28–21, batting .291 while having 41 hits and an on-base percentage of .423.
[6] The following year, he batted .417 and was the leading hitter in the North Atlantic Conference (NAC), posting 56 RBIs and six home runs.
[4] He was chosen a third-team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and also was a first-team choice on the All-Region and All-NAC squads.
[8][9] He was chosen the NAC Player of the Year, having led the conference in the categories of hits, doubles, and runs,[2] was first-team All-NAC, and was an ABCA second-team All-American choice.
[8] The 1995 season was Brumbaugh's last at Delaware, as he left to play professionally; he ended as "[o]ne of the all-time great sluggers in Delaware baseball history," according to the team website, having a .393 career batting average which was fourth all-time in school history while helping the team go 117–48 overall in his tenure.
[12] He batted .358 and had an on-base percentage of .437, while recording 101 hits, 45 RBIs, 19 doubles, four triples and two home runs, in addition to 15 bases stolen while only being caught stealing three times.
[15] He ended the season having appeared in 132 games and batted .242 while having 111 hits, 45 RBIs, 23 doubles, seven triples and six home runs.
[1] He was asked by the Texas Rangers to become a power-hitter and "delivered" on their request, setting a then-personal best with 15 home runs on the season, tying for the Port Charlotte team record.
[1][13] After spring training in 1998, Brumbaugh initially was sent back to the Class A level to play with the Rangers again; however, after an injury to Rob Sasser, he was promoted to the Double-A Tulsa Drillers of the Texas League.
[19][20] He helped them reach the playoffs, and in the middle of the first round, he was called up to the Triple-A Oklahoma City RedHawks of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), for whom he played with seven days.
[21] With Tulsa, he ended the year with 139 games played and batted .281, while being the team leader in both home runs (25) and RBIs (89).
[1] He played in 127 games for the RedHawks and had a batting average of .278, recording 126 hits, 56 RBIs, 28 doubles and 10 home runs.
[24] After playing 51 games, in which he batted .305 and had 38 RBIs along with eight home runs, he was called up by the Rangers to the major leagues for the first time on May 28.
[9] He spent two weeks with the team's Triple-A minor league affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox of the PCL, before being called back up to the majors.
[29] Brumbaugh appeared in 14 games with the Rockies before returning to the minor leagues, in which he batted .278 with 10 hits, two doubles, a home run, and four RBIs.
[30] He ultimately played 136 games for the Sky Sox that year and had a batting average of .293 while totaling 148 hits, 81 RBIs, 36 doubles and 18 home runs.
[32] After joining the Hyundai Unicorns mid-season, he appeared in 70 games and became one of the top players in the league, batting .303 with 51 RBIs and 14 home runs.
[33][34] He appeared in 132 games and led Hyundai to a repeat Korean Series championship; his batting average set a long-standing record among all foreign players, while he had 163 hits, 25 doubles, 33 home runs and 105 RBIs.
[35] Although the team attempted to keep him, Brumbaugh announced he was leaving for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), the top league in Japan, following the 2004 season.
[1] He also had a two-game stint in the league with the Acereros de Monclova, making eight plate appearances but not registering a hit.
[33] Brumbaugh ended his 16-year, five-country professional baseball career having a combined .289 batting average, .478 slugging percentage and .858 OPS.