A. J. Burnett

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 230 lb

BornJanuary 3, 1977 · North Little Rock, AR, USA

MLB debutAugust 17, 1999

Final gameOctober 3, 2015

Seasons17 (1999–2015)

Florida Marlins 1999–2005; Toronto Blue Jays 2006–2008; New York Yankees 2009–2011; Pittsburgh Pirates 2012–2013; Philadelphia Phillies 2014; Pittsburgh Pirates 2015

Percentile snapshot

2015 season — qualified pitchers

83.1

SHO

174

93.5

58.4

143

27.3

93.5

164.0

2.6

ERA

3.18

77.9

WHIP

1.360

18.2

K/9

7.85

53.2

FIP

3.39

72.7

FIP-

87.4

71.4

ERA+

121.8

75.3

sWAR

2.9

59.7

of 78 qualified 2015 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.5

51.9

sWAR

30.8

96.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1999	7	17	17	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	10	.118	.118	.118	.235	-52.3	-38.8	.106	0.7
2000	13	30	25	3	7	1	1	1	3	3	10	.280	.357	.520	.877	124.0	122.8	.382	0.9
2001	27	59	50	0	4	1	0	0	0	1	27	.080	.115	.100	.215	-52.9	-42.4	.104	1.9
2002	31	69	57	1	6	2	0	1	3	5	28	.105	.177	.193	.370	-6.5	-0.3	.178	3.6
2003	4	9	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	3	.143	.333	.143	.476	52.4	33.6	.264	0.1
2004	20	37	29	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	11	.138	.138	.138	.276	-45.2	-27.9	.124	1.9
2005	32	79	68	3	10	2	2	1	2	1	34	.147	.171	.279	.451	7.2	18.3	.198	3.7
2006	21	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.1	-100.0	.000	2.3
2007	25	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.7	-100.0	.000	3.0
2008	35	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.7	-100.0	.000	2.7
2009	33	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-6.9	5.1	.179	3.2
2010	33	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.9	-100.0	.000	-0.3
2011	34	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.7	-100.0	.000	-0.2
2012	31	71	63	1	4	0	0	0	2	3	36	.063	.106	.063	.170	-64.7	-51.0	.088	2.3
2013	30	67	59	1	4	0	0	0	2	2	33	.068	.098	.068	.166	-71.3	-51.5	.083	2.2
2014	34	65	60	5	8	2	0	0	1	3	23	.133	.175	.167	.341	-17.8	-3.8	.162	-0.2
2015	26	52	42	1	5	0	0	1	5	0	20	.119	.116	.190	.307	-39.1	-17.3	.131	2.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1999	7	7	4	2	0	0	37	16	25	33	3	41.3	3.48	1.500	7.19	4.24	96.3	126.2	0.7
2000	13	13	3	7	0	0	80	44	44	57	8	82.7	4.79	1.500	6.21	4.60	103.3	93.0	0.9
2001	27	27	11	12	2	1	145	78	83	128	20	173.3	4.05	1.315	6.65	4.59	108.4	104.5	1.9
2002	31	29	12	9	7	5	153	75	90	203	12	204.3	3.30	1.189	8.94	3.11	78.3	120.1	3.6
2003	4	4	0	2	0	0	18	12	18	21	2	23.0	4.70	1.565	8.22	4.89	118.5	87.9	0.1
2004	20	19	7	6	1	0	102	49	38	113	9	120.0	3.68	1.167	8.48	3.10	72.0	117.0	1.9
2005	32	32	12	12	4	2	184	80	79	198	12	209.0	3.44	1.258	8.53	3.08	75.8	117.9	3.7
2006	21	21	10	8	2	1	138	60	39	118	14	135.7	3.98	1.305	7.83	3.83	83.3	115.5	2.3
2007	25	25	10	8	2	0	131	69	66	176	23	165.7	3.75	1.189	9.56	4.40	98.0	119.9	3.0
2008	35	34	18	10	1	0	211	100	86	231	19	221.3	4.07	1.342	9.39	3.48	81.8	104.6	2.7
2009	33	33	13	9	1	0	193	93	97	195	25	207.0	4.04	1.401	8.48	4.38	96.3	112.5	3.2
2010	33	33	10	15	1	0	204	109	78	145	25	186.7	5.26	1.511	6.99	4.79	112.6	81.0	-0.3
2011	33	32	11	11	0	0	190	109	83	173	31	190.3	5.15	1.434	8.18	4.81	113.9	81.9	-0.2
2012	31	31	16	10	1	1	189	79	62	180	18	202.3	3.51	1.241	8.01	3.57	94.6	107.3	2.3
2013	30	30	10	11	1	0	165	70	67	209	11	191.0	3.30	1.215	9.85	2.77	77.8	108.1	2.2
2014	34	34	8	18	1	0	205	109	96	190	20	213.7	4.59	1.409	8.00	4.11	111.2	80.6	-0.2
2015	26	26	9	7	0	0	174	58	49	143	11	164.0	3.18	1.360	7.85	3.39	87.4	121.8	2.9

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

436

575

493

RBI

241

.1136

OBP

.1512

SLG

.1663

OPS

.3175

Pitching

G (P)

435

430

102nd-most career GS

164

215th-most career W

157

135th-most career L

SHO

2,731

189th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,513

39th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,100

76th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.987

WHIP

1.3250

K/9

8.28

80th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2002-05-05	MIA @ MIL Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	1	4
2000-08-28	STL @ MIA Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
2002-06-25	PHI @ MIA Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
2005-07-24	MIA @ SF Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
2015-07-11	STL @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2004-08-29	COL @ MIA Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	2	14	0
2005-07-06	MIL @ MIA Gameday	6.0	4	4	4	5	14	0
2008-08-19	NYY @ TOR Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	1	13	0
2007-06-07	TB @ TOR Gameday	7.0	7	3	3	3	13	1
2005-04-22	CIN @ MIA Gameday	6.0	4	2	2	5	13	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.