MLB / Players

Tim Burke

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornFebruary 19, 1959 · Omaha, NE, USA

MLB debutApril 8, 1985

Final gameSeptember 22, 1992

Seasons8 (1985–1992)

Montreal Expos 1985–1991; New York Mets 1991; New York Yankees 1992; New York Mets 1992

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

14.5

90.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1985	78	11	10	0	1	0	1	5	.100	.182	.100	.282	-17.0	-16.7	.153	2.7
1986	68	9	7	0	0	1	1	2	.000	.125	.000	.125	-62.5	-62.2	.094	1.9
1987	55	12	10	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.2	-100.0	.000	3.9
1988	61	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.6	-100.0	.000	1.0
1989	68	4	3	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.250	.000	.250	5.2	-22.3	.187	1.8
1990	58	7	6	1	1	0	1	3	.167	.286	.167	.452	40.8	30.7	.239	1.8
1991	72	6	6	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.8	-100.0	.000	1.3
1992	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1985	78	0	9	4	8	86	32	44	87	9	120.3	2.39	1.080	6.51	3.42	99.7	143.2	2.7
1986	68	2	9	7	4	103	33	46	82	7	101.3	2.93	1.470	7.28	3.51	94.7	126.3	1.9
1987	55	0	7	0	18	64	12	17	58	3	91.0	1.19	.890	5.74	2.58	61.7	352.6	3.9
1988	61	0	3	5	18	84	31	25	42	7	82.0	3.40	1.329	4.61	3.82	106.9	104.9	1.0
1989	68	0	9	3	28	68	24	22	54	6	84.7	2.55	1.063	5.74	3.09	87.8	137.8	1.8
1990	58	0	3	3	20	71	21	21	47	6	75.0	2.52	1.227	5.64	3.52	95.9	145.4	1.8
1991	72	0	6	7	6	96	38	26	59	8	101.7	3.36	1.200	5.22	3.54	97.5	107.9	1.3
1992	38	0	3	4	0	52	20	18	15	3	43.3	4.15	1.615	3.12	4.31	113.5	90.7	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

498

RBI

.0455

OBP

.1250

SLG

.0455

OPS

.1705

Pitching

G (P)

498

447th-most career G (P)

102

165th-most career SV

SHO

699

SO (P)

444

BB allowed

219

ERA

2.715

WHIP

1.2054

K/9

5.71

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	H	RBI	TB
1985-06-19	PIT @ WSH Gameday	1	1	0	1
1990-05-19	WSH @ SF Gameday	1	1	0	1
1986-08-15	CHC @ WSH Gameday	1	0	1	0
1985-04-08	WSH @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0
1985-04-13	WSH @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1986-08-27	WSH @ SF Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	1	6
1986-08-15	CHC @ WSH Gameday	5.0	7	0	0	0	5
1987-09-27	WSH @ PHI Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	5
1985-05-31	WSH @ LAD Gameday	5.0	3	0	0	0	4
1985-10-06	WSH @ NYM Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	4

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× 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.