Career
From 1970 through 1985, he played for the Washington Senators (1970-1971), Texas Rangers (1972-1976), Atlanta Braves (1977-1980), Seattle Mariners (1981), Oakland Athletics (1982-1984) and Toronto Blue Jays (1985). Burroughs batted and threw right-handed. He is the father of major league third baseman Sean Burroughs.
In a 16-season career, Burroughs posted a.261 batting average with 240 home runs and 882 RBIs in 1689 games.
Burroughs was selected by the Washington Senators with the first overall pick in the June 1969 draft. Late in the year, he joined the Senators at age of 19.
Considered a "good bat-no field" kind of player, Burroughs was a considerable slugging threat during his playing days. Defensively, he was capable but slow.
In four full seasons with the Texas Rangers, Burroughs averaged 25.5 home runs a year with a high of 30 homers in 1973.
During the 1974 season, Burroughs was at the center of the violent Ten Cent Beer Night debacle in Cleveland, where Burroughs was one of the targets of thrown objects and a few punches by unruly and inebriated Cleveland fans, in a game that was forfeited to Texas. Burroughs had fans who maintained a large banner below the right field deck titled "Jeff"s Jackpot", which displayed his home run total for the season plus one. Late in his career, Burroughs was still a valuable hitter, being used mainly as a Dialectics and Humanism and pinch hitter.
