MLB / Players

Britt Burns

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 5 in · 215 lb
BornJune 8, 1959 · Houston, TX, USA
MLB debutAugust 5, 1978
Final gameSeptember 30, 1985
Seasons8 (1978–1985)

Chicago White Sox 1978–1985

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified pitchers

G
36
70.5
GS
34
55.1
W
18
84.6
L
11
50
SV
0
0
CG
8
65.4
SHO
4
89.7
H
206
57.7
ER
100
23.1
BB
79
32.1
SO
172
87.2
HR
26
16.7
IP
227.0
59
ERA
3.96
28.2
WHIP
1.256
57.7
K/9
6.82
88.5
FIP
3.79
41
FIP-
88.8
73.1
ERA+
107.5
53.8
sWAR
3.0
57.7

of 79 qualified 1985 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
110.6
73.2
sWAR
15.7
91.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19782000000000000-0.8
197960000000000000.0
1980340000000000005.6
1981240000000000003.3
1982280000000000001.7
1983290000000000002.9
1984340000000000000.0
1985360000000000003.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1978220200014113327.712.912.2173.526.34166.129.5-0.8
197960000001031215.05.402.2003.605.17121.878.60.0
1980343215130111213756313317238.02.841.1605.033.4184.7142.15.6
19812423106051139464910814156.72.641.2006.203.3894.1135.73.3
19822828135051168766711612169.34.041.3886.173.4885.8100.51.7
198329261011084165695511514173.73.581.2675.963.5986.1116.42.9
198434164123201306545857117.05.001.4966.543.3380.982.30.0
1985363418110842061007917226227.03.961.2566.823.7988.8107.53.0

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

G
193
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
193
GS
161
W
70
L
60
SV
3
CG
39
SHO
11
IP
1,094
SO (P)
734
BB allowed
362
ERA
3.660
WHIP
1.2857
490th-lowest career WHIP
K/9
6.04
367th-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

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1985-05-01CWS @ BAL Gameday8.08333122
1985-07-23DET @ CWS Gameday9.06334112
1985-05-13CLE @ CWS Gameday9.04000100
1985-09-11MIN @ CWS Gameday9.04002100
1985-09-17LAA @ CWS Gameday6.26111101

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

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.