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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 32 · MLB debut 2024-09-10
716 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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Scout’s note
Sean Burke, a 6-foot-6 right-hander from Sutton, MA, has fanned 328 across 62 career MLB games for Chicago. His last two big-league outings produced six strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Burke here — The Buzz October 10, 2026
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
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 11 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — | — |
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.
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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Sean Burke draws the Game 5 start for the White Sox after a path that included driveway bullpens.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-12 · newest post 2026-10-10 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Sean Burke
The scouting press, in their own words
Sean Burke, in describing the @WhiteSox chemistry, said the typical journey of a minor league player involves making a few friends at every stop along the way. This is different. "I feel like I took all my friends together and made a baseball team," he said. @MLBNetwork
Sean Burke did not allow a hit until the 83rd and final pitch he threw tonight. What a performance. The White Sox are 3 outs from a 2-0 series lead.
Umpire favor
+2.2 net runs over 32 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Sean Burke’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Division Series, Game 5 · CWS vs. CLE · 5.0 IP, 4 K, 2 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. CLE · 5.1 IP, 6 K, 1 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. HOU · 4.0 IP, 8 K, 3 ER
The line
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