Ray Burris

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 22, 1950 · Idabel, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 8, 1973

Final gameSeptember 27, 1987

Seasons15 (1973–1987)

Chicago Cubs 1973–1979; New York Yankees 1979; New York Mets 1979–1980; Montreal Expos 1981–1983; Oakland Athletics 1984; Milwaukee Brewers 1985; St. Louis Cardinals 1986; Milwaukee Brewers 1987

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified pitchers

6.4

10.3

12.8

29.5

SHO

182

84.6

80.8

7.7

20.5

170.3

6.4

ERA

4.81

7.7

WHIP

1.380

20.5

K/9

4.28

21.8

FIP

4.68

5.1

FIP-

113.1

7.7

ERA+

86.1

7.7

sWAR

0.4

6.4

of 79 qualified 1985 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

92.0

sWAR

13.1

89.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1973	31	9	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	.143	.250	.143	.393	11.4	8.8	.211	1.4
1974	41	16	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	.077	.200	.077	.277	-19.6	-21.6	.165	-1.8
1975	38	96	82	10	15	2	0	0	4	7	24	1	.183	.247	.207	.455	20.6	24.5	.228	1.7
1976	39	91	81	4	9	0	0	0	1	1	28	0	.111	.120	.111	.232	-59.9	-36.3	.111	4.1
1977	40	83	69	4	12	2	1	1	8	4	22	0	.174	.230	.275	.505	22.2	29.1	.236	1.3
1978	41	70	61	3	7	1	2	0	2	2	13	0	.115	.143	.197	.340	-29.1	-10.2	.159	-0.1
1979	33	9	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.143	.250	.143	.393	14.8	5.4	.210	-0.4
1980	29	56	51	1	5	0	0	0	0	2	18	1	.098	.132	.098	.230	-46.4	-33.9	.116	0.4
1981	22	49	37	4	7	0	0	0	2	4	12	0	.189	.262	.189	.451	29.4	29.9	.229	2.2
1982	37	35	28	0	5	1	0	0	1	3	10	0	.179	.258	.214	.472	35.2	33.2	.236	-0.3
1983	40	45	39	2	9	2	0	0	2	4	15	0	.231	.302	.282	.584	68.1	64.4	.283	1.7
1984	37	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.7
1985	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1986	23	27	27	0	4	3	0	0	7	0	9	0	.148	.148	.259	.407	-1.5	11.6	.181	-1.1
1987	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1973	31	1	1	1	0	0	0	65	21	27	57	2	64.7	2.92	1.423	7.93	2.44	62.8	133.1	1.4
1974	40	5	3	5	1	0	0	91	55	26	40	8	75.0	6.60	1.560	4.80	4.11	108.3	57.4	-1.8
1975	36	35	15	10	0	8	2	259	109	73	108	25	238.3	4.12	1.393	4.08	4.04	105.9	92.7	1.7
1976	37	36	15	13	0	10	4	251	86	70	112	22	249.0	3.11	1.289	4.05	3.80	100.1	122.1	4.1
1977	39	39	14	16	0	5	1	270	116	67	105	29	221.0	4.72	1.525	4.28	4.44	103.3	91.0	1.3
1978	40	32	7	13	1	4	1	210	105	79	94	15	199.0	4.75	1.452	4.25	4.00	101.2	83.2	-0.1
1979	33	4	1	5	0	0	0	84	42	31	43	7	71.0	5.32	1.620	5.45	4.19	105.8	74.3	-0.4
1980	29	29	7	13	0	1	0	181	76	54	83	20	170.3	4.02	1.380	4.39	4.32	122.1	88.1	0.4
1981	22	21	9	7	0	4	0	117	46	41	52	9	135.7	3.05	1.165	3.45	3.74	106.6	115.0	2.2
1982	37	15	4	14	2	2	0	143	65	53	55	14	123.7	4.73	1.585	4.00	4.66	127.7	77.2	-0.3
1983	40	17	4	7	0	2	1	139	63	56	100	13	154.0	3.68	1.266	5.84	3.60	100.2	97.7	1.7
1984	34	28	13	10	0	5	1	193	74	90	93	15	211.7	3.15	1.337	3.95	4.18	109.9	120.9	3.7
1985	29	28	9	13	0	6	0	182	91	53	81	25	170.3	4.81	1.380	4.28	4.68	113.1	86.1	0.4
1986	23	10	4	5	0	0	0	92	51	32	34	13	82.0	5.60	1.512	3.73	5.29	144.9	65.3	-1.1
1987	10	2	2	2	0	0	0	33	15	12	8	4	23.0	5.87	1.957	3.13	6.00	132.0	77.5	-0.1

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

490

586

502

RBI

160

.1514

OBP

.2015

SLG

.1912

OPS

.3927

Pitching

G (P)

480

302

346th-most career GS

108

134

252nd-most career L

SHO

2,189

354th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,065

BB allowed

764

293rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.174

WHIP

1.4045

K/9

4.38

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
1977-05-20	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	5
1986-05-24	ATL @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	4	0	3
1983-06-20	PHI @ WSH Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	3
1977-08-13	PHI @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	3
1978-05-24	PHI @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1983-06-10	WSH @ NYM Gameday	8.0	7	2	1	2	9
1976-07-04	CHC @ NYM Gameday	9.0	9	2	1	1	8
1980-05-23	ATL @ NYM Gameday	8.2	7	1	1	2	8
1984-09-22	ATH @ KC Gameday	8.0	6	4	4	5	8
1983-07-25	WSH @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	3	7

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.