page_title: Andy Burns
section_title: Minor league career
hierarchical_section_title: Andy Burns / Professional career / Minor league career
caption_attribution_description: English: Andy Burns with the Lansing Lugnuts in 2012
context_page_description: Andrew David Burns is an American professional baseball infielder in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Blue Jays and in the KBO League for the Lotte Giants.
context_section_description: Burns signed with the Blue Jays and made his professional debut with the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays, before being promoted to the Vancouver Canadians of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League. In 2011, he played in 28 games and batted .250 with 3 home runs and 14 RBI. Burns played for the Lansing Lugnuts of the Class A Midwest League in 2012, appearing in 78 games and hitting .248 with 9 home runs and 37 RBI. Burns began the 2013 minor league season with the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, and was promoted at midseason to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Double-A Eastern League. He played in 128 games split between the two teams, and hit .288 with a career-high 15 home runs, 85 RBI, and 33 stolen bases. After the 2013 season, the Blue Jays assigned Burns to the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League, where he was named player of the week in the fourth week of the six-week schedule. He batted .312 with 13 RBI in 21 games for the Rafters.
  The Blue Jays invited Burns to spring training as a non-roster invitee in 2014, but he did not make the team, returning to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats for the entire 2014 season. He would play in a career-high 133 games that season, batting .255 with 15 home runs, 63 RBI, and 18 stolen bases. In the offseason, he appeared in 12 games for the Bravos de Margarita of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, and hit .205 with 5 RBI. Burns began the 2015 season in New Hampshire, and earned a promoted to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on April 17. He would play in 132 total games in 2015, batting .291 with 5 home runs and 46 RBI.
  Burns was invited to Major League spring training on January 12, 2016. He was optioned to Triple-A at the end of spring training. At the time of his call-up to the Blue Jays in May, he was hitting .250 with 9 doubles, 2 home runs, and 10 RBI for the Bisons.
caption: Burns with the Lansing Lugnuts in 2012
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