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Smoky Burgess played 18 major-league seasons (1949-1967) as a C (1,139). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 19 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 22 | CHN | 46 | 56 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 4 | .268 | .638 | 77 |
| 1951 | 24 | CHN | 94 | 219 | 21 | 55 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 21 | 12 | .251 | .632 | 76 |
| 1952 | 25 | PHI | 110 | 371 | 49 | 110 | 6 | 56 | 3 | 49 | 21 | .296 | .809 | 132 |
| 1953 | 26 | PHI | 102 | 312 | 31 | 91 | 4 | 36 | 3 | 37 | 17 | .292 | .787 | 112 |
| 1954 | 27 | PHI | 108 | 345 | 41 | 127 | 4 | 46 | 1 | 42 | 11 | .368 | .942 | 153 |
| 1955 | 28 | PHI|CIN | 123 | 442 | 71 | 133 | 21 | 78 | 1 | 50 | 36 | .301 | .864 | 133 |
| 1956 | 29 | CIN | 90 | 229 | 28 | 63 | 12 | 39 | 0 | 26 | 18 | .275 | .822 | 126 |
| 1957 | 30 | CIN | 90 | 205 | 29 | 58 | 14 | 39 | 0 | 24 | 16 | .283 | .919 | 150 |
| 1958 | 31 | CIN | 99 | 251 | 28 | 71 | 6 | 31 | 0 | 22 | 20 | .283 | .753 | 105 |
| 1959 | 32 | PIT | 114 | 377 | 41 | 112 | 11 | 59 | 0 | 31 | 16 | .297 | .834 | 128 |
| 1960 | 33 | PIT | 110 | 337 | 33 | 99 | 7 | 39 | 0 | 35 | 13 | .294 | .769 | 117 |
| 1961 | 34 | PIT | 100 | 323 | 37 | 98 | 12 | 52 | 1 | 30 | 16 | .303 | .851 | 131 |
| 1962 | 35 | PIT | 103 | 360 | 38 | 118 | 13 | 61 | 0 | 31 | 19 | .328 | .875 | 141 |
| 1963 | 36 | PIT | 91 | 264 | 20 | 74 | 6 | 37 | 0 | 24 | 14 | .280 | .732 | 118 |
| 1964 | 37 | CHA | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .200 | 1.229 | 245 |
| 1964 | 37 | PIT | 68 | 171 | 9 | 42 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 13 | 14 | .246 | .613 | 80 |
| 1965 | 38 | CHA | 80 | 77 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 11 | 7 | .286 | .786 | 131 |
| 1966 | 39 | CHA | 79 | 67 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 8 | .313 | .801 | 139 |
| 1967 | 40 | CHA | 77 | 60 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 14 | 8 | .133 | .553 | 70 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | C | 8 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 1951 | C | 64 | 0 | 210 | 35 | 5 | 6 |
| 1952 | C | 104 | 0 | 439 | 47 | 11 | 6 |
| 1953 | C | 95 | 0 | 395 | 23 | 3 | 8 |
| 1954 | C | 91 | 85 | 356 | 30 | 10 | 4 |
| 1955 | C | 113 | 109 | 492 | 36 | 7 | 6 |
| 1956 | C | 55 | 53 | 257 | 18 | 0 | 2 |
| 1957 | C | 45 | 42 | 223 | 15 | 3 | 0 |
| 1958 | C | 58 | 53 | 297 | 21 | 4 | 2 |
| 1959 | C | 101 | 95 | 441 | 39 | 8 | 4 |
| 1960 | C | 89 | 86 | 485 | 38 | 3 | 7 |
| 1961 | C | 92 | 83 | 426 | 27 | 4 | 4 |
| 1962 | C | 101 | 94 | 550 | 45 | 7 | 5 |
| 1963 | C | 72 | 65 | 364 | 40 | 4 | 4 |
| 1964 | C | 44 | 40 | 237 | 18 | 2 | 3 |
| 1965 | C | 5 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1966 | C | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 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.
Smoky Burgess won: TSN All-Star 1961 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1960.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 2 / 336 | 0 |
Smoky Burgess ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #126 | catchers | 1955 | 133 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.