Wally Burnette
Kansas City Athletics 1956–1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 18 | 45 | 39 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .051 | .075 | .051 | .126 | -87.9 | -66.4 | .065 | 2.6 |
| 1957 | 38 | 36 | 32 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .273 | .250 | .523 | 35.5 | 42.2 | .247 | 0.7 |
| 1958 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 31.9 | 26.6 | .237 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 115 | 39 | 39 | 54 | 13 | 121.3 | 2.89 | 1.269 | 4.01 | 4.02 | 94.1 | 147.7 | 2.6 |
| 1957 | 38 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 115 | 54 | 44 | 57 | 8 | 113.0 | 4.30 | 1.407 | 4.54 | 3.51 | 89.8 | 90.8 | 0.7 |
| 1958 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 28.3 | 3.49 | 1.518 | 3.49 | 4.07 | 104.9 | 111.0 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-09-27 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1956-07-24 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956-08-15 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1957-04-25 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1957-05-22 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-09-03 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 8.2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1957-06-07 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1956-07-27 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1956-08-22 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 10.0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1956-09-19 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 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.