Best of San Francisco Giants: Top 10 Seasons In Right Field
By Phil Watson
8. Ellis Burks, 2000
| Year ▾ | Age | G | PA | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 35 | 122 | 458 | 74 | 135 | 21 | 5 | 24 | 96 | 5 | 1 | 56 | 49 | .344 | .419 | .606 | 1.025 | 163 |
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 3/6/2014.
Even on balky knees that kept him out of 40 games, Burks was a top-15 finisher in the MVP balloting as the Giants won the NL West in his last season with the Giants before he left to sign with Cleveland in free agency.
Injuries kept him off of many of the league leader boards, but Burks was eighth in the National League with 51.42 Base-Out Runs added and 4.8 Base-Out Wins Added and was fifth among NL right fielders with a 2.32 Range Factor per nine innings.
Burks was tops among NL right fielders with a .419 on-base percentage, second with a .344 batting average and third with five triples, a .606 slugging percentage and 1.025 OPS.
He was 3-for-13 with two runs, a double, a home run, four RBI and four walks in the Giants’ four-game loss to the Mets in the NLDS.