Lew Burdette

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornNovember 22, 1926 · Nitro, WV, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1950

Final gameJuly 16, 1967

Seasons18 (1950–1967)

New York Yankees 1950; Boston Braves 1951–1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953–1963; St. Louis Cardinals 1963; Chicago Cubs 1964; St. Louis Cardinals 1964; Chicago Cubs 1965; Philadelphia Phillies 1965; California Angels 1966–1967

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

43.7

23.9

11.3

94.4

28.2

SHO

11.3

177

71.8

54.9

85.9

2.8

36.6

182.0

21.1

ERA

3.71

26.8

WHIP

1.192

49.3

K/9

3.61

1.4

FIP

3.99

FIP-

118.6

5.6

ERA+

91.7

16.9

sWAR

0.9

14.1

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.6

36.8

sWAR

32.0

96.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1950	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1951	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1952	45	45	35	1	4	0	0	0	0	3	8	0	.114	.205	.114	.319	-9.4	-7.1	.171	1.2
1953	46	58	53	4	9	0	0	0	1	0	13	0	.170	.170	.170	.340	-19.2	-7.9	.153	3.1
1954	39	89	79	3	7	1	0	0	4	1	14	0	.089	.119	.101	.220	-56.2	-39.3	.106	4.6
1955	45	92	86	10	20	5	0	0	7	3	20	0	.233	.258	.291	.549	48.3	50.5	.250	1.9
1956	45	102	86	9	16	1	0	0	8	2	16	0	.186	.209	.198	.406	7.6	14.3	.188	5.1
1957	41	97	88	11	13	2	0	2	9	3	22	0	.148	.183	.239	.421	10.9	17.2	.191	2.2
1958	47	108	99	11	24	1	1	3	15	3	24	0	.242	.272	.364	.635	72.0	74.7	.284	5.7
1959	52	113	104	14	21	7	1	0	8	3	36	0	.202	.231	.288	.520	40.7	44.0	.236	1.9
1960	46	102	91	11	16	3	0	2	4	7	22	0	.176	.240	.275	.515	45.8	46.3	.240	3.6
1961	42	108	103	10	21	5	0	3	11	2	39	0	.204	.219	.340	.559	46.1	50.3	.246	2.5
1962	39	55	51	6	9	0	0	0	1	1	17	0	.176	.208	.176	.384	2.0	6.4	.184	-0.3
1963	38	67	57	2	4	1	1	0	2	1	17	1	.070	.117	.123	.239	-47.7	-31.8	.118	0.9
1964	36	51	44	6	12	0	1	2	4	3	12	0	.273	.333	.455	.788	120.1	116.2	.355	0.4
1965	27	28	26	3	8	1	0	0	0	0	8	1	.308	.308	.346	.654	83.3	84.7	.297	-1.0
1966	54	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-43.5	-26.7	.114	0.7
1967	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1950	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	1.3	6.75	2.250	0.00	2.71	61.9	64.9	0.0
1951	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	5	1	0	4.3	6.23	2.538	2.08	6.07	163.6	59.6	-0.1
1952	45	9	6	11	7	5	0	138	55	47	47	8	137.0	3.61	1.350	3.09	3.56	100.1	98.5	1.2
1953	46	13	15	5	8	6	1	177	63	56	58	7	175.0	3.24	1.331	2.98	3.52	88.0	123.3	3.1
1954	38	32	15	14	0	13	4	224	73	62	79	17	238.0	2.76	1.202	2.99	3.51	93.2	136.5	4.6
1955	42	33	13	8	0	11	2	253	103	73	70	25	230.0	4.03	1.417	2.74	4.14	109.1	94.2	1.9
1956	39	35	19	10	1	16	6	234	77	52	110	22	256.3	2.70	1.116	3.86	3.13	88.8	130.5	5.1
1957	37	33	17	9	0	14	1	260	106	59	78	25	256.7	3.72	1.243	2.74	3.88	108.8	96.0	2.2
1958	40	36	20	10	0	19	3	279	89	50	113	18	275.3	2.91	1.195	3.69	3.14	86.9	124.0	5.7
1959	41	39	21	15	1	20	4	312	131	38	105	38	289.7	4.07	1.208	3.26	4.01	110.7	88.9	1.9
1960	45	32	19	13	4	18	4	277	103	35	83	19	275.7	3.36	1.132	2.71	3.38	96.7	104.0	3.6
1961	40	36	18	11	0	14	3	295	121	33	92	31	272.3	4.00	1.204	3.04	3.87	101.8	95.0	2.5
1962	37	19	10	9	2	6	1	172	78	23	59	26	143.7	4.89	1.357	3.70	4.77	125.2	78.0	-0.3
1963	36	27	9	13	2	7	1	177	75	40	73	21	182.0	3.71	1.192	3.61	3.99	118.6	91.7	0.9
1964	36	17	10	9	0	8	2	162	73	22	43	16	141.0	4.66	1.305	2.74	4.11	111.5	79.0	0.4
1965	26	12	3	5	0	1	1	121	55	21	28	8	91.0	5.44	1.560	2.77	4.05	115.0	64.7	-1.0
1966	54	0	7	2	5	0	0	80	30	12	27	4	79.7	3.39	1.155	3.05	2.90	86.5	98.9	0.7
1967	19	0	1	0	1	0	0	16	10	0	8	4	18.3	4.91	.873	3.93	4.55	144.7	64.0	-0.2

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

666

1,124

1,011

101

185

RBI

271

.1830

OBP

.2158

SLG

.2532

OPS

.4690

Pitching

G (P)

626

200th-most career G (P)

373

178th-most career GS

203

112th-most career W

144

191st-most career L

158

204th-most career CG

SHO

88th-most career SHO

3,067

130th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,074

499th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

628

497th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.656

WHIP

1.2434

307th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.15

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	BB	TB
1964-07-23	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	3	0	9
1957-08-13	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1958-07-10	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	5	0	8
1959-06-08	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	0	4	0	6
1958-08-30	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	4	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1956-08-01	ATL @ LAD Gameday	8.0	8	2	2	5	10	1
1956-07-18	SF @ ATL Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	0	9	0
1958-09-26	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	9	1	1	0	9	0
1954-05-28	STL @ ATL Gameday	12.0	5	2	2	2	8	0
1962-06-12	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	8	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

1× World Series MVP2× 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.