Joe Burke  
Starting Pitcher | Free Agents

Pitching
He keeps the ball down and gets a lot of groundballs. The Free Agents hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. Sometimes I wish he'd just give up on throwing the changeup, it's like a BP ball! You know, some times I think I can throw harder than Burke, and that's saying a lot. He's almost as effective against lefthanders as he is versus righthanders.

Defense & Hitting
He never has controlled the running game. Burke never has been a good fielder. Burke is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Burke has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Free Agents have been known to use Burke as a pinch-runner on occasion.

2014 Outlook
I just don't know if The Free Agents are ever going to get what they expect out of him.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
2003 FA 65 73 69 51 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 26 4 Overhand Free Agent 0 6 8 43 291
2004 FA 65 73 69 51 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 27 5 Overhand Free Agent 0 7 8 43 290
2005 FA 65 73 69 51 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 27 5 Overhand Free Agent 0 7 8 43 290
2006 FA 64 73 69 51 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 29 7 Overhand Free Agent 0 9 6 43 287
2007 FA 64 72 69 51 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 30 8 Overhand Free Agent 0 10 6 43 285
2008 FA 63 72 69 51 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 31 9 Overhand Free Agent 0 10 5 43 283
2009 FA 63 71 69 51 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 32 10 Overhand Free Agent 0 10 3 43 281
2010 FA 63 71 69 50 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 33 11 Overhand Free Agent 0 10 2 43 279
2011 FA 63 70 69 49 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 34 12 Overhand Free Agent 0 9 0 42 275
2012 FA 63 70 69 49 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 35 13 Overhand Free Agent 0 8 0 41 274
2013 FA 62 70 67 49 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 36 14 Overhand Free Agent 0 7 0 41 270
2014 FA 61 69 64 49 55 43 45 50 50 77 47 0 0 53 0 0 37 15 Overhand Free Agent 0 6 0 40 263
Ratings Delta   -1 -1 -3                           +1 +1       -1   -1 -7
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Tue May 10 16:22:47 EDT 2005

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.