Ken Burkhart
St. Louis Cardinals 1945–1947; Cincinnati Reds 1948; St. Louis Cardinals 1948; Cincinnati Reds 1949
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified pitchers
of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 155 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 42 | 82 | 72 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .181 | .244 | .208 | .452 | 24.4 | 26.7 | .226 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 25 | 35 | 34 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .147 | .171 | .235 | .407 | -6.8 | 13.9 | .191 | 1.7 |
| 1947 | 34 | 26 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -55.4 | -34.1 | .115 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 37 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .308 | .357 | .615 | .973 | 155.8 | 160.8 | .426 | -1.1 |
| 1949 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 44.3 | 52.6 | .262 | 0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 42 | 22 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 206 | 70 | 66 | 67 | 9 | 217.3 | 2.90 | 1.252 | 2.77 | 3.51 | 93.0 | 130.2 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 25 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 111 | 32 | 36 | 32 | 4 | 100.0 | 2.88 | 1.470 | 2.88 | 3.34 | 96.3 | 120.4 | 1.7 |
| 1947 | 34 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 108 | 55 | 23 | 44 | 13 | 95.0 | 5.21 | 1.379 | 4.17 | 4.27 | 102.8 | 79.8 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 55 | 30 | 30 | 7 | 79.0 | 6.27 | 1.544 | 3.42 | 4.21 | 106.0 | 63.4 | -1.1 |
| 1949 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 28.3 | 3.18 | 1.376 | 2.54 | 3.94 | 96.2 | 128.9 | 0.6 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-09-29 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1948-09-16 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1946-08-28 | SF @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1946-08-24 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-09-16 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-05-17 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1946-07-03 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1945-09-02 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1945-07-30 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 6.0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947-04-23 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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.