Ellis Burks

1987–2004 · 18 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1964

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1987	Boston Red Sox	AL	133	606	558	94	152	30	2	20	59	41	98	27	.272	.324	.441	.765	3.0
1988	Boston Red Sox	AL	144	615	540	93	159	37	5	18	92	62	89	25	.294	.367	.481	.848	6.4
1989	Boston Red Sox	AL	97	446	399	73	121	19	6	12	61	36	52	21	.303	.365	.471	.836	4.2
1990GGSS	Boston Red Sox	AL	152	641	588	89	174	33	8	21	89	48	82	9	.296	.349	.486	.835	3.9
1991	Boston Red Sox	AL	130	524	474	56	119	33	3	14	56	39	81	6	.251	.314	.422	.736	1.4
1992	Boston Red Sox	AL	66	263	235	35	60	8	3	8	30	25	48	5	.255	.327	.417	.744	0.5
1993	Chicago White Sox	AL	146	574	499	75	137	24	4	17	74	60	97	6	.275	.352	.441	.793	2.3
1994	Colorado Rockies	NL	42	165	149	33	48	8	3	13	24	16	39	3	.322	.388	.678	1.066	1.7
1995	Colorado Rockies	NL	103	321	278	41	74	10	6	14	49	39	72	7	.266	.359	.496	.856	1.7
1996SS	Colorado Rockies	NL	156	685	613	142	211	45	8	40	128	61	114	32	.344	.408	.639	1.047	6.5
1997	Colorado Rockies	NL	119	477	424	91	123	19	2	32	82	47	75	7	.290	.363	.571	.934	3.1
1998	Colorado Rockies	NL	142	582	504	76	147	28	6	21	76	58	111	11	.292	.365	.496	.861	2.7
1999	San Francisco Giants	NL	120	469	390	73	110	19	0	31	96	69	86	7	.282	.394	.569	.964	3.7
2000	San Francisco Giants	NL	122	458	393	74	135	21	5	24	96	56	49	5	.344	.419	.606	1.025	4.6
2001	Cleveland Indians	AL	124	515	439	83	123	29	1	28	74	62	85	5	.280	.369	.542	.911	3.9
2002	Cleveland Indians	AL	138	570	518	92	156	28	0	32	91	44	108	2	.301	.362	.541	.903	4.7
2003	Cleveland Indians	AL	55	228	198	27	52	11	1	6	28	27	46	1	.263	.360	.419	.779	1.0
2004	Boston Red Sox	AL	11	37	33	6	6	0	0	1	1	3	8	2	.182	.270	.273	.543	-0.1
Career	18 seasons		2000	8176	7232	1253	2107	402	63	352	1206	793	1340	181	.291	.366	.510	.876	55.1

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League), NL (National League).

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