Tom Burgmeier

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 2, 1943 · St. Paul, MN, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1968

Final gameAugust 29, 1984

Seasons17 (1968–1984)

California Angels 1968; Kansas City Royals 1969–1973; Minnesota Twins 1974–1977; Boston Red Sox 1978–1982; Oakland Athletics 1983–1984

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

ERA+

118.0

87.3

sWAR

21.0

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	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1968	71	3	2	7	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	57.0	9.9	.249	-0.7
1969	47	18	18	7	3	0	0	4	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-22.9	-6.6	.155	0.2
1970	42	16	14	1	2	0	1	5	0	.143	.200	.143	.343	-10.2	-3.5	.173	1.1
1971	68	21	20	2	5	2	1	7	0	.250	.286	.350	.636	79.2	81.3	.296	2.9
1972	51	12	12	2	4	0	0	4	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	96.4	97.1	.314	-0.1
1973	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1974	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1975	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1976	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1977	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1978	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1979	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
1980	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.4
1981	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1982	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.3
1983	51	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1984	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1968	56	2	1	4	5	65	35	24	33	5	72.7	4.33	1.225	4.09	3.20	110.3	67.0	-0.7
1969	31	0	3	1	0	67	25	21	23	5	54.0	4.17	1.630	3.83	3.94	107.7	87.7	0.2
1970	41	0	6	6	1	59	24	23	43	6	68.3	3.16	1.200	5.66	3.32	89.3	117.6	1.1
1971	67	0	9	7	17	71	17	30	44	3	88.3	1.73	1.143	4.48	3.06	89.7	197.0	2.9
1972	51	0	6	2	9	67	26	33	18	0	55.3	4.23	1.807	2.93	3.46	110.1	74.3	-0.1
1973	6	0	0	0	1	13	6	4	4	2	10.0	5.40	1.700	3.60	5.88	146.9	74.1	-0.1
1974	50	0	5	3	4	92	46	26	34	7	91.7	4.52	1.287	3.34	3.74	100.3	82.5	0.0
1975	46	0	5	8	11	76	26	23	41	7	75.7	3.09	1.308	4.88	3.63	94.3	124.4	1.4
1976	57	0	8	1	1	95	32	29	45	11	115.3	2.50	1.075	3.51	3.88	107.9	144.1	2.7
1977	61	0	6	4	7	113	55	33	35	15	97.3	5.09	1.500	3.24	5.11	126.4	79.4	-0.2
1978	35	1	2	1	4	74	30	23	24	7	61.3	4.40	1.582	3.52	4.53	111.0	92.6	0.4
1979	44	0	3	2	4	89	27	16	60	8	88.7	2.74	1.184	6.09	3.26	74.1	160.7	2.5
1980	62	0	5	4	24	87	22	20	54	3	99.0	2.00	1.081	4.91	2.73	65.0	209.8	3.4
1981	32	0	4	5	6	61	19	17	35	5	59.7	2.87	1.307	5.28	3.51	91.6	133.7	1.3
1982	40	0	7	0	2	98	26	22	44	6	102.3	2.29	1.173	3.87	3.30	77.3	186.5	3.3
1983	49	0	6	7	4	89	30	32	39	2	96.0	2.81	1.260	3.66	3.28	84.0	139.0	2.2
1984	17	0	3	0	2	15	6	8	8	2	23.0	2.35	1.000	3.13	4.23	111.1	162.0	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

782

RBI

.2121

OBP

.2464

SLG

.2424

OPS

.4888

Pitching

G (P)

745

81st-most career G (P)

102

165th-most career SV

SHO

1,259

SO (P)

584

BB allowed

384

ERA

3.232

274th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2831

484th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.18

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	TB
1971-07-25	KC @ CLE Gameday	1	0	1	1	2
1971-08-24	BOS @ KC Gameday	2	1	1	1	2
1969-05-17	BAL @ KC Gameday	2	0	1	0	1
1969-05-30	NYY @ KC Gameday	3	0	1	0	1
1969-08-02	CLE @ KC Gameday	1	1	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	BB	SO
1980-06-25	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4.2	1	1	8
1969-05-30	NYY @ KC Gameday	7.2	3	2	6
1979-08-13	MIN @ BOS Gameday	7.2	4	2	5
1981-09-03	SEA @ BOS Gameday	6.0	4	2	5
1982-05-05	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5.2	4	1	5

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.