Ellis Burks

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornSeptember 11, 1964 · Vicksburg, MS, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1987

Final gameOctober 2, 2004

Seasons18 (1987–2004)

Boston Red Sox 1987–1992; Chicago White Sox 1993; Colorado Rockies 1994–1998; San Francisco Giants 1998–2000; Cleveland Indians 2001–2003; Boston Red Sox 2004

Percentile snapshot

2002 season — qualified batters

138

18.2

570

27.9

518

37.7

71.4

156

41.6

86.4

RBI

69.5

27.3

108

31.2

14.3

49.4

.301

81.2

OBP

.362

64.9

SLG

.541

85.7

OPS

.903

81.8

wRC+

137.7

81.2

OPS+

137.1

81.8

wOBA

.388

79.9

sWAR

3.1

55.8

of 155 qualified 2002 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.1

88.1

OPS+

125.6

86.4

sWAR

50.0

98.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1987	133	606	558	94	152	30	2	20	59	41	98	27	6	.272	.324	.441	.765	100.0	99.2	.336	2.3
1988	144	615	540	93	159	37	5	18	92	62	89	25	9	.294	.367	.481	.848	135.5	132.5	.381	5.0
1989	97	446	399	73	121	19	6	12	61	36	52	21	5	.303	.365	.471	.836	131.6	129.4	.379	3.4
1990	152	641	588	89	174	33	8	21	89	48	82	9	11	.296	.349	.486	.835	129.0	128.0	.375	4.7
1991	130	524	474	56	119	33	3	14	56	39	81	6	11	.251	.314	.422	.736	98.3	98.8	.332	1.9
1992	66	263	235	35	60	8	3	8	30	25	48	5	2	.255	.327	.417	.744	102.5	103.0	.339	1.1
1993	146	574	499	75	137	24	4	17	74	60	97	6	9	.275	.352	.441	.793	116.5	115.6	.358	2.5
1994	42	165	149	33	48	8	3	13	24	16	39	3	1	.322	.388	.678	1.066	153.4	150.0	.450	1.7
1995	103	321	278	41	74	10	6	14	49	39	72	7	3	.266	.359	.496	.856	105.7	103.5	.380	1.3
1996	156	685	613	142	211	45	8	40	128	61	114	32	6	.344	.408	.639	1.047	153.1	147.7	.452	6.3
1997	119	477	424	91	123	19	2	32	82	47	75	7	2	.290	.363	.571	.934	121.8	119.4	.406	2.7
1998	142	582	504	76	147	28	6	21	76	58	111	11	8	.292	.365	.496	.861	113.2	112.5	.378	2.8
1999	120	469	390	73	110	19	0	31	96	69	86	7	5	.282	.394	.569	.964	147.6	148.7	.416	3.8
2000	122	458	393	74	135	21	5	24	96	56	49	5	1	.344	.419	.606	1.025	161.7	165.3	.436	4.5
2001	124	515	439	83	123	29	1	28	74	62	85	5	1	.280	.369	.542	.911	134.3	134.5	.389	2.7
2002	138	570	518	92	156	28	0	32	91	44	108	2	3	.301	.362	.541	.903	137.7	137.1	.388	3.1
2003	55	228	198	27	52	11	1	6	28	27	46	1	1	.263	.360	.419	.779	109.9	107.2	.347	0.5
2004	11	37	33	6	6	0	0	1	1	3	8	2	0	.182	.270	.273	.543	41.9	40.6	.254	-0.2

Career totals

2,000

253rd-most career G

8,176

265th-most career PA

7,232

263rd-most career AB

1,253

153rd-most career R

2,107

234th-most career H

402

193rd-most career 2B

493rd-most career 3B

352

102nd-most career HR

RBI

1,206

156th-most career RBI

793

278th-most career BB

1,340

149th-most career SO

181

434th-most career SB

.2913

376th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3633

412th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5104

91st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8737

119th-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2001-06-19	MIN @ CLE Gameday	7	3	5	1	3	3	0	15
1990-08-27	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	5	0	11
1987-06-10	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	4	3	1	2	7	2	10
1999-06-29	COL @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	7	0	10
1989-04-29	BOS @ TEX Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	4	0	10

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

2× Silver Slugger1× Gold Glove2× 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.