MLB / Players

William Burke

HandednessThrows Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb
Born1862 · Cincinnati, OH, USA
MLB debutJuly 20, 1887
Final gameAugust 9, 1887
Seasons1 (1887–1887)

Detroit Wolverines 1887

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
-0.1
28.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
18872881200010100.250.250.250.50049.239.1.230-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
18872201010211053015.06.001.7331.804.09101.267.4-0.1

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

G
2
PA
8
AB
8
R
1
H
2
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
0
SO
1
SB
0
BA
.2500
OBP
.2500
SLG
.2500
OPS
.5000

Pitching

G (P)
2
GS
2
W
0
L
1
SV
0
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
15
SO (P)
3
BB allowed
5
ERA
6.000
WHIP
1.7333
K/9
1.80

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.