Ellis Burks played 18 seasons (1987–2004) for BOS, CWS, COL and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 2,107 hits, 352 home runs and a .291 average. Standard career, peaking in 1996. Led the league in a statistical category 1 time. Honors: 2× Silver Sluggers and 2× All-Star Selections.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 99.2th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamMLB Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Hitters and Pitchers)MLB Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on Cooperstown's DoorstepMLB JourneymenMLB League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsMLB Loyalty
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
Fan Rating
Rate Ellis Burks — All-Time
17 seasons · peak 20.9 in 1996
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
55.9 career wins over 17 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1996 · +8.0 wins
Latest season · 2003 · +0.8 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Ellis Burks led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 2 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 1996, 17 rated seasons.
Season boards
2
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
Where Ellis Burks ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
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Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 18 seasons (1987–2004) — a true nomad. The crest trail: