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Jesse Burkett played 16 major-league seasons (1890-1905) as a OF (2,054), P (23), 2B (1), 3B (1), SS (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 16 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 22 | NY1 | 101 | 401 | 67 | 124 | 4 | 60 | 14 | 33 | 52 | .309 | .827 | 146 |
| 1891 | 23 | CL4 | 40 | 167 | 29 | 45 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 23 | 19 | .269 | .717 | 115 |
| 1892 | 24 | CL4 | 145 | 608 | 119 | 167 | 6 | 66 | 36 | 67 | 59 | .275 | .723 | 124 |
| 1893 | 25 | CL4 | 125 | 511 | 145 | 178 | 6 | 82 | 39 | 98 | 23 | .348 | .951 | 158 |
| 1894 | 26 | CL4 | 125 | 523 | 138 | 187 | 8 | 94 | 28 | 84 | 27 | .358 | .956 | 135 |
| 1895 | 27 | CL4 | 132 | 555 | 153 | 225 | 5 | 83 | 41 | 74 | 32 | .405 | 1.001 | 163 |
| 1896 | 28 | CL4 | 133 | 586 | 160 | 240 | 6 | 72 | 34 | 49 | 19 | .410 | 1.002 | 170 |
| 1897 | 29 | CL4 | 127 | 517 | 129 | 198 | 2 | 60 | 28 | 76 | 25 | .383 | .944 | 156 |
| 1898 | 30 | CL4 | 150 | 624 | 114 | 213 | 0 | 42 | 19 | 69 | 30 | .341 | .814 | 139 |
| 1899 | 31 | SLN | 141 | 558 | 116 | 221 | 7 | 71 | 25 | 67 | 23 | .396 | .963 | 171 |
| 1900 | 32 | SLN | 141 | 559 | 88 | 203 | 7 | 68 | 32 | 62 | 35 | .363 | .904 | 156 |
| 1901 | 33 | SLN | 142 | 601 | 142 | 226 | 10 | 75 | 27 | 59 | 70 | .376 | .949 | 183 |
| 1902 | 34 | SLA | 138 | 553 | 97 | 169 | 5 | 52 | 23 | 71 | 25 | .306 | .807 | 131 |
| 1903 | 35 | SLA | 132 | 515 | 73 | 151 | 3 | 40 | 17 | 52 | 47 | .293 | .738 | 129 |
| 1904 | 36 | SLA | 147 | 575 | 72 | 156 | 2 | 27 | 12 | 78 | 64 | .271 | .706 | 130 |
| 1905 | 37 | BOS | 148 | 573 | 78 | 147 | 4 | 47 | 13 | 67 | 63 | .257 | .682 | 123 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 22 | NY1 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 118 | 82 | 92 | 5.57 | 64 |
| 1894 | 26 | CL4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4.50 | 118 |
| 1902 | 34 | SLA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9.00 | 40 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | OF | 90 | 0 | 108 | 23 | 28 | 4 |
| 1890 | P | 21 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 3 | 1 |
| 1891 | OF | 40 | 0 | 53 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| 1892 | OF | 145 | 0 | 271 | 20 | 31 | 7 |
| 1893 | OF | 125 | 0 | 239 | 19 | 46 | 5 |
| 1894 | OF | 125 | 0 | 242 | 17 | 24 | 5 |
| 1894 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1895 | OF | 132 | 0 | 273 | 17 | 38 | 4 |
| 1896 | OF | 133 | 0 | 269 | 18 | 23 | 4 |
| 1897 | OF | 127 | 0 | 226 | 18 | 13 | 3 |
| 1898 | OF | 150 | 0 | 268 | 17 | 19 | 3 |
| 1899 | OF | 140 | 0 | 296 | 20 | 21 | 3 |
| 1899 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 1900 | OF | 141 | 0 | 337 | 17 | 25 | 6 |
| 1901 | OF | 142 | 0 | 307 | 17 | 27 | 4 |
| 1902 | OF | 137 | 0 | 300 | 17 | 26 | 5 |
| 1902 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1902 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1903 | OF | 132 | 0 | 230 | 10 | 15 | 4 |
| 1904 | OF | 147 | 147 | 266 | 24 | 18 | 4 |
| 1905 | OF | 148 | 148 | 276 | 11 | 22 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Jesse Burkett ranks on 3 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #59 | left fielders | 1901 | 183 OPS+ |
| #105 | left fielders | 1899 | 171 OPS+ |
| #115 | left fielders | 1896 | 170 OPS+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.