Jesse Burkett

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 155 lb

BornDecember 4, 1868 · Wheeling, WV, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1890

Final gameOctober 7, 1905

Seasons16 (1890–1905)

New York Giants 1890; Cleveland Spiders 1891–1898; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900–1901; St. Louis Browns 1902–1904; Boston Americans 1905

Percentile snapshot

1905 season — qualified batters

148

68.5

654

86.1

573

83.3

78.7

147

66.7

28.7

84.3

74.1

RBI

45.4

91.7

15.7

34.3

.257

42.6

OBP

.339

SLG

.344

46.3

OPS

.682

55.6

wRC+

117.5

63.9

OPS+

115.3

61.1

wOBA

.334

57.4

sWAR

2.8

69.4

of 109 qualified 1905 batters (min 474 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

137.9

95.3

OPS+

141.3

sWAR

67.3

99.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1890	101	437	401	67	124	23	13	4	60	33	52	14	.309	.366	.461	.827	129.0	140.4	.392	1.6
1891	40	190	167	29	45	7	4	0	13	23	19	1	.269	.358	.359	.717	108.8	108.8	.351	0.7
1892	145	676	608	119	167	15	14	6	66	67	59	36	.275	.348	.375	.723	114.3	118.1	.352	2.8
1893	125	616	511	145	178	25	15	6	82	98	23	39	.348	.459	.491	.951	143.2	152.4	.455	4.9
1894	125	618	523	138	187	27	14	8	94	84	27	28	.358	.447	.509	.956	125.1	129.8	.443	3.6
1895	132	644	555	153	225	22	13	5	83	74	32	41	.405	.482	.519	1.001	148.5	157.9	.471	5.6
1896	133	647	586	160	240	27	16	6	72	49	19	34	.410	.461	.541	1.002	152.8	163.4	.468	6.0
1897	127	610	517	129	198	28	7	2	60	76	25	28	.383	.468	.476	.944	145.1	149.3	.451	5.0
1898	150	706	624	114	213	18	9	0	42	69	30	19	.341	.415	.399	.814	131.8	132.9	.399	4.5
1899	141	635	558	116	221	21	8	7	71	67	23	25	.396	.463	.500	.963	156.9	163.6	.459	6.2
1900	141	643	559	88	203	11	15	7	68	62	35	32	.363	.429	.474	.904	144.2	149.1	.429	5.0
1901	142	673	601	142	226	20	15	10	75	59	70	27	.376	.440	.509	.949	171.4	177.0	.447	7.6
1902	138	636	553	97	169	29	9	5	52	71	25	23	.306	.390	.418	.807	126.6	126.4	.382	3.6
1903	132	574	515	73	151	20	7	3	40	52	47	17	.293	.361	.377	.738	125.8	124.4	.348	3.2
1904	147	661	575	72	156	15	10	2	27	78	64	12	.271	.363	.343	.706	134.1	129.0	.344	4.2
1905	148	654	573	78	147	12	13	4	47	67	63	13	.257	.339	.344	.682	117.5	115.3	.334	2.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1890	21	14	3	10	6	134	73	92	82	3	118.0	5.57	1.915	6.25	4.30	120.7	64.0	1.6
1894	1	0	0	0	0	6	2	1	0	0	4.0	4.50	1.750	0.00	4.56	85.7	118.4	3.6
1902	1	0	0	1	0	4	1	1	2	0	1.0	9.00	5.000	18.00	1.81	51.9	38.7	3.6

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

2,067

215th-most career G

9,620

114th-most career PA

8,426

112th-most career AB

1,720

26th-most career R

2,850

48th-most career H

320

414th-most career 2B

182

15th-most career 3B

RBI

952

351st-most career RBI

1,029

116th-most career BB

613

389

81st-most career SB

.3382

25th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4149

31st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4461

OPS

.8610

146th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

123

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

5.561

WHIP

1.9350

K/9

6.15

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	TB
1901-05-23	STL @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	1	1	9
1901-07-21	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	1	1	8
1901-10-06	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	4	8
1901-09-05	STL @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	2	8
1903-06-02	BAL @ DET Gameday	6	3	5	0	1	0	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1902-09-28	CWS @ BAL Gameday	1.0	4	4	1	1	2
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1946 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.