Joe Burns
Boston Braves 1943; Philadelphia Athletics 1944–1945
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 52 | 148 | 135 | 12 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 2 | 0 | .207 | .262 | .252 | .514 | 43.6 | 49.7 | .252 | -0.5 |
| 1944 | 28 | 81 | 75 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 1 | .240 | .278 | .307 | .585 | 61.7 | 67.4 | .279 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 31 | 96 | 90 | 7 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .256 | .287 | .289 | .576 | 60.5 | 67.3 | .278 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-04-27 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-04-24 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-05-30 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1944-07-23 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1943-05-02 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-04-24 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-25 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-27 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-28 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-29 | ATL @ SF 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.