Bill Burns
Washington Senators 1908; Chicago White Sox 1909; Washington Senators 1909; Chicago White Sox 1910; Cincinnati Reds 1910–1911; Philadelphia Phillies 1911; Detroit Tigers 1912
Percentile snapshot
1910 season — qualified pitchers
of 90 qualified 1910 pitchers (min 156 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | 23 | 56 | 54 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 0 | .148 | .179 | .185 | .364 | 17.7 | 21.2 | .180 | 2.7 |
| 1909 | 29 | 76 | 70 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .227 | .214 | .441 | 41.8 | 42.8 | .223 | 3.2 |
| 1910 | 33 | 65 | 61 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .262 | .297 | .279 | .576 | 67.9 | 70.8 | .283 | 0.8 |
| 1911 | 27 | 50 | 47 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .240 | .234 | .474 | 30.7 | 35.5 | .233 | 1.4 |
| 1912 | 6 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .375 | .385 | .760 | 118.6 | 114.9 | .376 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | 23 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 135 | 31 | 18 | 55 | 3 | 164.0 | 1.70 | .933 | 3.02 | 2.22 | 97.7 | 133.5 | 2.7 |
| 1909 | 29 | 23 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 186 | 42 | 41 | 63 | 2 | 197.3 | 1.92 | 1.150 | 2.87 | 2.57 | 109.9 | 122.2 | 3.2 |
| 1910 | 32 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 183 | 69 | 50 | 57 | 3 | 179.0 | 3.47 | 1.302 | 2.87 | 3.00 | 102.6 | 84.3 | 0.8 |
| 1911 | 27 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 149 | 52 | 29 | 52 | 6 | 138.7 | 3.38 | 1.284 | 3.38 | 3.26 | 96.1 | 100.6 | 1.4 |
| 1912 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 38.7 | 5.35 | 1.578 | 1.40 | 3.49 | 102.4 | 63.7 | -0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-05-06 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1908-04-18 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1909-07-17 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1910-07-20 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1910-08-17 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908-07-10 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 13.1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1909-10-03 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1908-05-25 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1909-06-17 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1911-09-19 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 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.