Buddy Burbage
Baltimore Black Sox 1929; Hilldale Club 1930; Baltimore Black Sox 1932; Homestead Grays 1934; Newark Dodgers 1934; Homestead Grays 1935; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938; Washington Black Senators 1938; Philadelphia Stars 1940; New York Black Yankees 1941; Philadelphia Stars 1943
Percentile snapshot
1934 season — qualified batters
of 135 qualified 1934 batters (min 102 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 34 | 155 | 134 | 29 | 39 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .291 | .367 | .373 | .740 | 85.2 | 81.1 | .351 | 0.1 |
| 1930 | 29 | 109 | 96 | 21 | 34 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .354 | .415 | .500 | .915 | 108.3 | 108.8 | .410 | 0.5 |
| 1932 | 59 | 255 | 224 | 30 | 60 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 32 | 26 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .268 | .347 | .420 | .766 | 108.5 | 111.0 | .364 | 1.0 |
| 1934 | 31 | 136 | 116 | 37 | 49 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .422 | .496 | .586 | 1.082 | 190.1 | 203.4 | .502 | 2.0 |
| 1935 | 23 | 94 | 82 | 22 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | .341 | .407 | .512 | .919 | 125.9 | 130.3 | .413 | 0.5 |
| 1937 | 30 | 135 | 126 | 18 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .270 | .287 | .397 | .684 | 74.1 | 74.1 | .304 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 15 | 65 | 55 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .236 | .323 | .364 | .686 | 84.5 | 81.2 | .322 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .571 | .625 | .857 | 1.482 | 251.9 | 282.9 | .658 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 43.1 | 40.5 | .233 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 12 | 35 | 30 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .133 | .235 | .133 | .369 | 21.5 | -0.4 | .204 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 3.18 | 1.059 | 0.00 | 3.58 | 85.8 | 131.5 | 1.0 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-07 | WPI @ BBS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-08 | WPI @ BBS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-08 | WPI @ BBS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-13 | BBS @ HIL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-14 | BBS @ HIL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-07 | WPI @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-08 | WPI @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-08 | WPI @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-13 | BBS @ HIL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-14 | BBS @ HIL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.