Max Burt (baseball)

Maxwell Joseph Burt (born August 28, 1996) is an American professional baseball infielder in the New York Yankees organization. He currently plays for the Somerset Patriots, the Double-A affiliate of the team. He played college baseball at Northeastern University in Boston and played high school baseball at St. Johns Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Burt stands at 6'1" and weighs 200 lbs. He bats and throws with his right hand.

St. Johns Preparatory School
Burt played High School Baseball at St. Johns Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts, where he was the captain of the baseball team as well as playing basketball all four years at St. Johns and golf for two years. He had a .330 career batting average at St. Johns while leading them to win the league championship in 2013 and 2014 as well as earning multiple awards at St. Johns.

Northeastern University
He then played college ball for the Northeastern Huskies from 2015 to 2018, batting .260/.333/.367 with 214 hits, 12 home runs, 109 RBI and 33 stolen bases in 224 games.

Professional career
Burt was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 28th round of the 2018 MLB Draft, 847th overall.

2018
Burt spent the entire 2018 season with the Yankees Rookie Ball team the Pulaski Yankees, where Burt slashed .274/.347/.366 with 51 hits and no home runs in 51 games.

2019
Burt played in three different levels of the minor leagues in 2019 going from Single-A Charleston RiverDogs to the High-A Tampa Tarpons to the Double-A Trenton Thunder. He hit .222/.272/.313 with 80 hits and 8 home runs in 106 games across all three levels that season.

2021
Burt again played in three different levels in 2021 (No 2020 MiLB season due to the pandemic), this time starting the season in Double-A with the Somerset Patriots before being sent down to Single-A Tampa, and back up to Somerset. This eventually led up to his first career call up to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. He slashed .237/.303/.373 with 70 hits and 7 home runs in 91 games across all three levels in 2021.

2022
Burt spent the entire 2022 season with Double-A Somerset, hitting .205/.269/.373 with 55 hits and 11 home runs in 85 games.

2023
He began the 2023 season in the same place he spent all of the 2022 season, with the Double-A Somerset Patriots. Burt started off his 2023 campaign strong, going 11-for-21 (.524 Batting Average) with 3 Home Runs, and an Eastern League Leading 12 RBI and 1.625 OPS in the first seven games of the season. Burt credited an adjusted mentality while batting as a key component to his early success, saying "It's all mental for me. I knew I had all the physical attributes and stuff like that, but for me I needed to take a step up mentally and I knew that was my next step to kind of take me to that next level. I'm still working on it every day. You're only as good as your next at-bat." Burt attributed this change in mindset to Somerset's hitting coach, Jake Hirst, saying he helped him "dumb everything down" while in the batter's box, so he's not flooded with thoughts as the pitch is coming in. He reflected on his struggles at the plate in 2022, saying "Last year [2022] was too much life and death with every at-bat, where this year, I'm thinking more about the whole process. This season, every pitch is its own pitch, every pitch is its own entity. The at-bat I have in April is hopefully going to be the at-bat I have in October, so I'm viewing every pitch the exact same this year." His good play earned him a promotion to the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders on June 22, 2023. It was his second trip to Triple-A in his career, and the first since his 36 game stint in 2021 where he slashed an underwhelming .187/.261/.290 (.550 OPS) and struck out 33 times compared to only 11 walks, 1 home run, and 20 hits. His time in Triple-A this time around was even shorter than the last, playing in only seven games, where he went 2-for-16 with no home runs, and slashed .125/.300/.125 before being sent back down to the Patriots. He finished the season with Somerset, hitting a career-high 12 home runs in 2023, and finished with an overall slash line of .235/.319/.393 across 98 games with Somerset and Scranton.