MLB / Players

Dick Burrus

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 29, 1898 · Hatteras, NC, USA

MLB debutJune 23, 1919

Final gameAugust 21, 1928

Seasons6 (1919–1928)

Philadelphia Athletics 1919–1920; Boston Braves 1925–1928

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified batters

131

57.6

540

61.4

486

63.3

47.5

131

55.7

56.3

1.3

41.1

RBI

60.8

52.5

46.8

47.5

.270

24.1

OBP

.324

17.1

SLG

.335

17.7

OPS

.659

14.6

wRC+

84.0

22.2

OPS+

83.8

23.4

wOBA

.312

13.3

sWAR

-0.4

5.7

of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.4

66.9

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
1919	70	206	194	17	50	3	4	0	8	9	25	2	0	.258	.294	.314	.609	63.4	68.5	.291	-0.6
1920	71	143	135	11	25	8	0	0	10	5	7	0	3	.185	.225	.244	.470	16.1	22.6	.224	-1.3
1925	152	652	588	82	200	41	4	5	87	51	29	8	9	.340	.396	.449	.845	123.3	122.5	.386	2.9
1926	131	540	486	59	131	21	1	3	61	37	16	4	0	.270	.324	.335	.659	84.0	83.8	.312	-0.4
1927	72	248	220	22	70	8	3	0	32	17	10	3	0	.318	.370	.382	.752	107.8	106.6	.353	0.5
1928	64	159	137	15	37	6	0	3	13	19	8	1	0	.270	.367	.380	.747	101.2	97.9	.353	0.3

Career totals

560

1,948

1,760

206

513

RBI

211

138

.2915

OBP

.3468

SLG

.3733

OPS

.7201

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1925-05-20	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	1	5	0	1	4	8
1925-07-30	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	2	1	1	2	7
1925-09-06	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	6
1925-07-25	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	4	6
1925-06-12	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1919-04-23	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-24	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-28	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-29	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-30	ATH @ NYY 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.