Corbin Burnes
Burnes owns one of baseball's most devastating cutter-curveball combinations, a pairing that produced a video game-like 2020 season where he struck out 88 batters while walking just 15 in 60 innings. That microscopic 1.8 BB/9 rate helped fuel an ERA+ of 210, making him nearly twice as effective as the average pitcher.
The right-hander's 1114 strikeouts across 968 career innings reveal a pitcher who consistently dominates opposing hitters, even if his overall ERA of 3.15 seems modest. His four All-Star selections and Cy Young hardware validate what the advanced metrics show: Burnes ranks among the game's elite starters when healthy.
At 32, durability becomes the key question. His 968 innings over eight seasons average out to just 121 per year, suggesting either injury concerns or workload management. When Burnes takes the mound, opposing lineups face one of baseball's most unhittable arsenals.
Career · Batting
3 seasons| Year | Team | G | AB | HR | RBI | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | — | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2019 | — | 32 | 7 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | 28 | 52 | 0 | 4 | — | — | — |
| Career | 90 | 59 | 0 | 4 | — | — | — | |
Each pitch type this pitcher throws regularly, placed by how the ball moves — sideways break across, rise or drop down the side. Each dotted ring holds about the middle 85% of the league’s pitches of that type, so a cluster sitting outside its ring is movement most pitchers don’t have.
The dots — a sample of this pitcher’s regular-season pitches, placed by movement: left–right is horizontal break, up–down is induced vertical break (what the pitch does beyond gravity). The view is handedness-neutral — positive break is toward the pitcher’s arm side for lefties and righties alike, so every sinker runs right and every sweeper breaks left, whoever throws it.
The dotted rings — about the middle 85% of where each pitch type lands league-wide (a 2-standard-deviation spread), measured from 7.5 million regular-season pitches since 2015. A cluster sitting well outside its ring is movement most of the league doesn’t get. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.
Matchups, projections, comps — grounded in Lahman, Retrosheet, and Statcast.