Walter Burch
Baltimore Black Sox 1934; Homestead Grays 1936; Cleveland Bears 1939; Chicago American Giants 1940; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940–1941; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Cleveland Buckeyes 1944; Cleveland Buckeyes 1946
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .286 | .400 | .686 | 87.6 | 91.0 | .318 | 0.1 |
| 1936 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .444 | .375 | .819 | 115.7 | 111.2 | .393 | 0.1 |
| 1939 | 11 | 40 | 35 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .114 | .225 | .114 | .339 | 18.6 | 0.2 | .190 | -0.2 |
| 1940 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .182 | .364 | 14.8 | 9.7 | .176 | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -10.3 | -15.2 | .137 | -0.1 |
| 1942 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .429 | .429 | .429 | .857 | 148.3 | 155.6 | .402 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 8 | 28 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .250 | .160 | .410 | 39.3 | 27.8 | .219 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -86.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4.3 | 4.15 | 1.846 | 2.08 | 4.47 | 110.2 | 97.6 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 27.00 | 4.000 | 9.00 | 14.72 | 359.2 | 15.2 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-08-04 | BBS @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1936-05-14 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1940-05-08 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-06-03 | JRC @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1934-07-08 | BEG @ BBS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-05-10 | CLB @ MEM Gameday | 4.1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1946-06-16 | CLB @ KCM Gameday | 1.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1934-07-08 | BEG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-07-08 | BEG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-07-09 | BEG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.