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Thomas Burns played 11 major-league seasons (1884-1895) as a OF (895), SS (200), 3B (66), P (25), 2B (21). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | 20 | BL2 | 35 | 131 | 34 | 39 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 7 | — | .298 | .890 | 191 |
| 1884 | 20 | WIL | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | — | .143 | .679 | 127 |
| 1885 | 21 | BL2 | 78 | 321 | 47 | 74 | 5 | 37 | 0 | 16 | — | .231 | .629 | 102 |
| 1887 | 23 | BL2 | 140 | 551 | 122 | 188 | 9 | 99 | 58 | 63 | 47 | .341 | .933 | 164 |
| 1888 | 24 | BL2|BR3 | 131 | 529 | 94 | 155 | 6 | 67 | 44 | 38 | 20 | .293 | .780 | 154 |
| 1889 | 25 | BR3 | 131 | 504 | 105 | 153 | 5 | 100 | 32 | 68 | 26 | .304 | .813 | 137 |
| 1890 | 26 | BRO | 119 | 472 | 102 | 134 | 13 | 128 | 21 | 51 | 42 | .284 | .823 | 145 |
| 1891 | 27 | BRO | 123 | 470 | 75 | 134 | 4 | 83 | 21 | 53 | 30 | .285 | .775 | 132 |
| 1892 | 28 | BRO | 141 | 542 | 88 | 171 | 4 | 96 | 33 | 65 | 42 | .315 | .849 | 163 |
| 1893 | 29 | BRO | 109 | 415 | 68 | 112 | 7 | 60 | 14 | 36 | 16 | .270 | .746 | 102 |
| 1894 | 30 | BRO | 126 | 513 | 107 | 182 | 5 | 109 | 30 | 44 | 18 | .355 | .910 | 123 |
| 1895 | 31 | BRO|NY1 | 53 | 190 | 28 | 49 | 1 | 32 | 10 | 22 | 8 | .258 | .683 | 80 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | 20 | BL2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3.00 | 108 |
| 1885 | 21 | BL2 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 105.2 | 30 | 21 | 3.58 | 91 |
| 1887 | 23 | BL2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11.1 | 2 | 4 | 9.53 | 45 |
| 1888 | 24 | BL2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12.2 | 2 | 3 | 4.26 | 72 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | OF | 24 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 1884 | 2B | 10 | 0 | 32 | 32 | 9 | 1 |
| 1884 | SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 1884 | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1884 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1885 | OF | 45 | 0 | 74 | 15 | 9 | 4 |
| 1885 | P | 15 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 1885 | SS | 10 | 0 | 14 | 25 | 8 | 4 |
| 1885 | 2B | 6 | 0 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 3 |
| 1885 | 3B | 6 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 0 |
| 1885 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1887 | SS | 98 | 0 | 136 | 245 | 72 | 20 |
| 1887 | 3B | 42 | 0 | 69 | 81 | 29 | 3 |
| 1887 | P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1887 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1888 | OF | 70 | 0 | 119 | 3 | 22 | 1 |
| 1888 | SS | 59 | 0 | 93 | 159 | 46 | 14 |
| 1888 | P | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1888 | 2B | 4 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 1888 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 1889 | OF | 113 | 0 | 139 | 21 | 14 | 5 |
| 1889 | SS | 19 | 0 | 21 | 62 | 10 | 4 |
| 1890 | OF | 116 | 0 | 137 | 23 | 10 | 4 |
| 1890 | 3B | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 1891 | OF | 113 | 0 | 173 | 16 | 16 | 5 |
| 1891 | SS | 6 | 0 | 11 | 21 | 9 | 1 |
| 1891 | 3B | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 0 |
| 1892 | OF | 129 | 0 | 162 | 16 | 12 | 4 |
| 1892 | 3B | 7 | 0 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 |
| 1892 | SS | 5 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| 1893 | OF | 108 | 0 | 159 | 19 | 13 | 5 |
| 1893 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1894 | OF | 126 | 0 | 209 | 15 | 12 | 4 |
| 1895 | OF | 51 | 0 | 83 | 9 | 11 | 1 |
| 1895 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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.
Thomas Burns ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #24 | shortstops | 1887 | 164 OPS+ |
| #54 | shortstops | 1888 | 154 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.