MLB / Players

Art Houtteman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 188 lb
BornAugust 7, 1927 · Detroit, MI, USA
MLB debutApril 29, 1945
Final gameSeptember 22, 1957
Seasons12 (1945–1957)

Detroit Tigers 1945–1950; Detroit Tigers 1952; Cleveland Indians 1953; Detroit Tigers 1953; Cleveland Indians 1954–1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957; Cleveland Indians 1957

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified pitchers

G
32
23.2
GS
25
30.4
W
15
69.6
L
7
83.9
SV
0
0
CG
11
46.4
SHO
1
16.1
H
198
51.8
ER
70
80.4
BB
59
80.4
SO
68
16.1
HR
14
64.3
IP
188.0
37.5
ERA
3.35
57.1
WHIP
1.367
39.3
K/9
3.26
17.9
FIP
3.61
50
FIP-
98.2
42.9
ERA+
109.7
57.1
sWAR
3.1
62.5

of 57 qualified 1954 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
98.1
30.5
sWAR
13.2
89.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
194513550000000200.000.000.000.000-141.4-100.0.000-0.4
19461320100010000.500.500.5001.000187.0174.2.466-0.4
194723404021220030301.300.300.350.65070.179.0.3011.8
194843575621100070200.196.196.196.393-12.14.0.1850.9
1949368178819200711400.244.253.269.52227.039.1.2473.1
19504110993514410352000.151.194.215.409-7.53.8.1955.6
195236776927000221000.101.127.101.228-60.1-36.8.1130.1
19533958537820121700.151.167.245.412-4.310.9.1870.2
19543276656182011021110.277.294.354.64870.578.6.2973.1
19553545385600003400.158.220.158.377-1.83.2.1931.2
19562313120200020410.167.167.167.333-27.5-11.7.155-0.8
19578220100000000.500.500.5001.000194.5184.0.462-1.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1945130020002715119125.35.331.5003.203.66104.765.7-0.4
194611010001580218.09.001.8752.253.5797.940.5-0.4
1947239720721064236586110.73.421.2834.723.0882.0110.11.8
19484320216104018685527411164.34.661.4484.053.7085.293.40.9
194934251510013222784598519203.73.711.4043.763.8191.9111.83.1
1950413419124214257108998829274.73.541.2962.884.6199.3131.25.6
1952352882011022181076510919221.04.361.2814.443.4591.486.60.1
1953382291349220091546815177.74.611.4303.443.96100.984.60.2
19543225157011119870596814188.03.351.3673.263.6198.2109.73.1
1955351210603112655445315124.33.981.3673.844.25107.299.71.2
19562242210060343119546.76.561.9503.665.33127.463.9-0.8
19578100000261666110.713.503.0005.064.18114.226.9-1.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

G
330
PA
566
AB
513
R
37
H
99
2B
12
3B
1
HR
2
RBI
37
BB
14
SO
77
SB
2
BA
.1930
OBP
.2140
SLG
.2320
OPS
.4460

Pitching

G (P)
325
GS
181
W
87
L
91
SV
20
CG
78
SHO
14
436th-most career SHO
IP
1,555
SO (P)
639
BB allowed
516
ERA
4.138
WHIP
1.3904
K/9
3.70

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1950-09-09DET @ CWS Gameday512110005
1950-09-19ATH @ DET Gameday503100204
1947-09-26DET @ CLE Gameday413100104
1953-05-15DET @ ATH Gameday411001204
1954-06-06CLE @ ATH Gameday211001204

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1950-07-05BAL @ DET Gameday9.0911180
1952-08-14CWS @ DET Gameday10.0722370
1947-09-26DET @ CLE Gameday9.0722170
1950-05-25NYY @ DET Gameday9.0966271
1952-08-03BOS @ DET Gameday9.0400170

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.