Ben Howard
San Diego Padres 2002–2003; Florida Marlins 2004
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -66.3 | -50.6 | .082 | 0.4 |
| 2004 | 31 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 10.7 | 9.28 | 2.531 | 8.44 | 9.81 | 257.2 | 41.1 | -0.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 10 | 34.7 | 3.63 | 1.327 | 6.23 | 6.64 | 165.7 | 110.2 | 0.4 |
| 2004 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 23 | 21 | 33 | 6 | 37.7 | 5.50 | 1.540 | 7.88 | 5.03 | 116.8 | 78.3 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-09-02 | AZ @ SD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002-04-28 | SD @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002-05-03 | PIT @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002-05-07 | SD @ MIA Gameday | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003-08-26 | SD @ AZ Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-09-24 | LAD @ SD Gameday | 7.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 2003-09-14 | SD @ LAD Gameday | 5.0 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| 2002-05-07 | SD @ MIA Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| 2003-09-19 | SD @ COL Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002-04-28 | SD @ PIT Gameday | 5.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
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.