MLB / Players

Jack Burns

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 31, 1907 · Cambridge, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1930

Final gameSeptember 27, 1936

Seasons7 (1930–1936)

St. Louis Browns 1930–1935; Detroit Tigers 1936; St. Louis Browns 1936

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

147

66.7

665

74.2

572

66.7

161

55.8

82.5

21.7

32.5

RBI

44.2

83.3

29.2

37.5

6.7

.281

22.5

OBP

.374

SLG

.378

25.8

OPS

.752

wRC+

89.9

32.5

OPS+

86.5

28.3

wOBA

.356

38.3

sWAR

0.2

13.3

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.6

18.1

OPS+

86.5

17.7

sWAR

-0.8

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
1930	8	36	30	5	9	3	0	0	2	5	5	0	0	.300	.400	.400	.800	104.8	100.3	.373	0.1
1931	144	631	580	75	148	27	7	4	70	42	58	19	12	.255	.307	.347	.653	66.3	68.0	.304	-1.7
1932	150	700	617	111	188	33	8	11	70	61	43	17	11	.305	.368	.438	.806	102.3	102.6	.369	1.3
1933	144	618	556	89	160	43	4	7	71	56	51	11	11	.288	.353	.417	.770	96.9	97.7	.356	0.6
1934	154	688	612	86	157	28	8	13	73	62	47	9	3	.257	.327	.392	.719	75.4	77.9	.334	-1.1
1935	143	638	549	77	157	28	1	5	67	68	49	3	2	.286	.366	.368	.734	86.9	85.1	.348	-0.1
1936	147	665	572	98	161	37	3	4	64	82	46	4	8	.281	.374	.378	.752	89.9	86.5	.356	0.2

Career totals

890

3,976

3,516

541

980

199

RBI

417

376

299

.2787

OBP

.3497

SLG

.3905

OPS

.7402

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
1933-06-30	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	4	4	0	1	1	4	0	9
1932-09-14	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1933-08-19	MIN @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1932-07-10	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	3	0	7
1936-06-25	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	3	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-15	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-17	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-19	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-21	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-22	DET @ BAL 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.