Pete Burnside
New York Giants 1955; New York Giants 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958; Detroit Tigers 1959–1960; Washington Senators 1961–1962; Baltimore Orioles 1963; Washington Senators 1963
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .533 | 59.7 | 47.4 | .274 | 0.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.6 |
| 1958 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1959 | 30 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .091 | .000 | .091 | -82.4 | -73.2 | .068 | 0.7 |
| 1960 | 31 | 34 | 27 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .207 | .148 | .355 | -9.5 | -2.8 | .178 | 0.6 |
| 1961 | 33 | 38 | 34 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .059 | .086 | .059 | .145 | -75.5 | -60.1 | .074 | 0.1 |
| 1962 | 40 | 42 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .057 | .108 | .057 | .165 | -65.8 | -53.7 | .089 | 0.3 |
| 1963 | 44 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .154 | .083 | .237 | -39.8 | -31.3 | .126 | -1.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12.7 | 2.84 | 1.500 | 1.42 | 5.15 | 128.8 | 140.6 | 0.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 47 | 30 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 30.7 | 8.80 | 1.957 | 5.28 | 4.83 | 124.5 | 44.1 | -1.6 |
| 1958 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 10.7 | 6.75 | 2.344 | 3.38 | 6.82 | 174.5 | 57.9 | -0.2 |
| 1959 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 26 | 25 | 49 | 7 | 62.0 | 3.77 | 1.290 | 7.11 | 3.66 | 90.6 | 107.0 | 0.7 |
| 1960 | 31 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 122 | 54 | 50 | 71 | 14 | 113.7 | 4.28 | 1.513 | 5.62 | 4.18 | 105.9 | 92.4 | 0.6 |
| 1961 | 33 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 106 | 57 | 51 | 56 | 11 | 113.3 | 4.53 | 1.385 | 4.45 | 4.21 | 105.8 | 87.8 | 0.1 |
| 1962 | 40 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 152 | 74 | 51 | 74 | 20 | 149.7 | 4.45 | 1.356 | 4.45 | 4.32 | 109.7 | 88.6 | 0.3 |
| 1963 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 50 | 26 | 29 | 12 | 74.7 | 6.03 | 1.621 | 3.50 | 4.86 | 132.6 | 60.6 | -1.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-07-28 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1960-06-09 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1955-09-20 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1960-07-09 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1960-08-01 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-05-23 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 1962-05-01 | BOS @ TEX Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1959-06-09 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 6.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1962-05-12 | TEX @ BAL Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| 1960-07-22 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 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.