Thomas Burrows
Thomas E. Burrows is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves organization. The Seattle Mariners selected Burrows in the fourth round, with the 117th overall selection, of the 2016 MLB draft.Career
Burrows attended Mars Hill Bible School in Florence, Alabama. As a pitcher for the school's baseball team, he was named to the Alabama Sports Writers Association Super All-State team in 2012 and 2013.
He enrolled at the University of Alabama, where he played college baseball for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He was named a Freshman All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and Collegiate Baseball Newspaper in 2014. He was also added to the watch list for the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award. During the summer of 2015, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Hyannis Harbor Hawks of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He set a Crimson Tide record with 30 saves in his collegiate career.
The Seattle Mariners selected Burrows in the fourth round, with the 117th overall selection, of the 2016 MLB draft. After he signed with the Mariners, he made his professional debut with the Everett AquaSox of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League for whom in 24.2 innings he had an ERA of 2.55. On January 11, 2017, the Mariners traded Burrows and Luiz Gohara to the Atlanta Braves for Mallex Smith and Shae Simmons. The Braves assigned him to the Rome Braves, where he spent all of 2017, posting a 3-5 record with a 2.16 ERA in 66.2 innings pitched. He began the 2018 season with Rome before being promoted to the Florida Fire Frogs of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, and finishing the season with the Mississippi Braves of the Class AA Southern League.
