Bill Howerton
St. Louis Cardinals 1949–1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951; New York Giants 1952; Pittsburgh Pirates 1952
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .308 | .308 | .385 | .692 | 76.4 | 82.7 | .311 | 0.0 |
| 1950 | 110 | 364 | 313 | 50 | 88 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 59 | 47 | 60 | 0 | 0 | .281 | .375 | .492 | .867 | 124.0 | 122.9 | .387 | 2.2 |
| 1951 | 104 | 321 | 284 | 39 | 77 | 16 | 3 | 12 | 41 | 36 | 56 | 1 | 1 | .271 | .353 | .475 | .828 | 116.4 | 116.0 | .372 | 1.6 |
| 1952 | 24 | 49 | 40 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .367 | .325 | .692 | 98.3 | 89.8 | .337 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-09-09 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1951-08-26 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1950-07-07 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1950-09-03 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1950-07-14 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-07-01 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-07-02 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-07-03 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-07-04 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-07-04 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.