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Sean Burke
B/T R/R · 6' 6" · 240 lb · born Sutton, MA, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 3 · played P 28 · MLB debut 2024-09-10
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 3 G · 14.2 IP · 3.68 ERA · 13 SO · 1.50 WHIP
635 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipSean Burke #73 · 2025 Bowman Chrome Red Rookie Redemption · 51 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-03 · paid links
The rookieSean Burke #RA-SBU · 2025 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 206 recent sales 7N ▲0.9%
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Scout’s note
A 6'6" right-hander out of Sutton, Massachusetts, taken in the third round in 2021, Burke has 309 strikeouts across 57 career appearances for Chicago — and 14 of those came in his last three games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.79Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.79M
- Service time
- 1 yr 11 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$793,200 (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago White Sox.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
Collect Sean Burke
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The Bureau on Sean Burke
The scouting press, in their own words
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Umpire favor
+1.5 net runs over 26 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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