MLB / Players

Bobby Burke

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 150 lb

BornJanuary 23, 1907 · Joliet, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1927

Final gameMay 4, 1937

Seasons10 (1927–1937)

Washington Senators 1927–1935; Philadelphia Phillies 1937

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

59.8

33.3

38.2

54.9

34.3

SHO

37.3

155

62.7

64.7

30.4

37.3

75.5

168.0

42.2

ERA

3.21

80.4

WHIP

1.351

63.7

K/9

2.79

21.6

FIP

3.99

63.7

FIP-

91.9

71.6

ERA+

135.2

84.3

sWAR

3.8

77.5

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.6

85.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1927	36	27	24	3	3	0	0	2	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	-46.4	-34.5	.117	0.9
1928	26	22	20	3	5	0	1	2	1	5	.250	.286	.350	.636	63.0	67.1	.293	1.0
1929	37	51	43	2	6	1	0	4	1	10	.140	.159	.163	.322	-25.9	-16.7	.151	0.3
1930	24	25	23	4	4	1	0	2	1	2	.174	.208	.217	.426	7.7	8.8	.199	1.4
1931	30	51	47	2	10	1	0	4	2	8	.213	.245	.234	.479	25.9	27.6	.228	1.3
1932	23	27	25	2	5	2	0	1	1	6	.200	.231	.280	.511	30.5	34.0	.235	0.2
1933	25	19	17	1	4	1	0	2	0	0	.235	.235	.294	.529	34.2	41.0	.241	1.3
1934	41	63	57	6	13	1	1	4	3	7	.228	.267	.281	.547	41.2	43.7	.259	3.8
1935	16	25	22	1	4	0	0	0	2	3	.182	.250	.182	.432	14.9	14.7	.218	-1.5
1937	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1927	36	6	3	2	0	1	0	91	44	32	20	6	100.0	3.96	1.230	1.80	4.61	113.2	102.9	0.9
1928	26	7	2	4	0	2	1	87	37	18	27	1	85.3	3.90	1.230	2.85	3.25	81.5	102.3	1.0
1929	37	17	6	8	0	4	0	154	75	55	51	6	141.0	4.79	1.482	3.26	4.10	97.3	88.0	0.3
1930	24	4	3	4	3	2	0	62	30	29	35	2	74.3	3.63	1.224	4.24	4.15	90.4	126.4	1.4
1931	30	13	8	3	2	3	1	124	61	50	38	6	128.7	4.27	1.352	2.66	4.48	104.3	100.7	1.3
1932	22	10	3	6	0	2	0	98	52	44	32	4	91.0	5.14	1.560	3.16	4.48	103.5	84.1	0.2
1933	25	6	4	3	0	4	1	64	23	31	28	1	64.0	3.23	1.484	3.94	3.91	93.3	129.4	1.3
1934	37	15	8	8	0	7	1	155	60	72	52	2	168.0	3.21	1.351	2.79	3.99	91.9	135.2	3.8
1935	15	10	1	8	0	2	0	90	55	27	16	7	66.3	7.46	1.764	2.17	5.29	122.1	58.1	-1.5
1937	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0.0	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

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

260

310

278

RBI

.1942

OBP

.2249

SLG

.2338

OPS

.4587

Pitching

G (P)

254

SHO

919

SO (P)

299

BB allowed

360

ERA

4.281

WHIP

1.3999

K/9

2.93

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	RBI	TB
1931-05-16	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	4
1931-06-08	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	2	3
1928-07-28	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	3
1930-05-22	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	0	3
1934-07-16	MIN @ DET Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1931-08-08	BOS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	5	8
1934-05-12	BAL @ MIN Gameday	8.0	6	1	1	4	8
1933-09-18	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	4	3	3	7
1933-07-15	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	5	6
1934-06-16	CLE @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	3	6

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.