Bob Howry

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 215 lb

BornAugust 4, 1973 · Phoenix, AZ, USA

MLB debutJune 21, 1998

Final gameJuly 28, 2010

Seasons13 (1998–2010)

Chicago White Sox 1998–2001; Boston Red Sox 2002; Chicago White Sox 2002; Boston Red Sox 2003; Cleveland Indians 2004–2005; Chicago Cubs 2006–2008; San Francisco Giants 2009; Arizona Diamondbacks 2010; Chicago Cubs 2010

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

13.7

90.2

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	H	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1998	44	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1999	69	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2000	65	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2001	69	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2002	67	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
2003	4	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2004	37	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2005	79	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.7	-100.0	.000	2.2
2006	84	1	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	462.4	410.1	.898	2.0
2007	78	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2008	72	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.9	-100.0	.000	0.0
2009	63	3	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.0	-100.0	.000	1.2
2010	38	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.1

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1998	44	0	3	9	37	19	19	51	7	54.3	3.15	1.031	8.45	4.18	91.7	144.8	1.4
1999	69	5	3	28	58	27	38	80	8	67.7	3.59	1.419	10.64	4.19	86.0	135.7	1.6
2000	65	2	4	7	54	25	29	60	6	71.0	3.17	1.169	7.61	4.03	80.4	158.0	2.0
2001	69	4	5	5	85	41	30	64	11	78.7	4.69	1.462	7.32	4.59	99.1	98.6	0.7
2002	67	3	5	0	67	32	21	45	9	68.7	4.19	1.282	5.90	4.59	100.9	108.4	0.9
2003	4	0	0	0	11	6	3	4	1	4.3	12.46	3.231	8.31	6.32	135.9	37.3	-0.3
2004	37	4	2	0	37	13	12	39	5	42.7	2.74	1.148	8.23	3.84	86.1	162.5	1.2
2005	79	7	4	3	49	20	16	48	4	73.0	2.47	.890	5.92	3.11	73.1	172.3	2.2
2006	84	4	5	5	70	27	17	71	8	76.7	3.17	1.135	8.33	3.40	73.4	146.1	2.0
2007	78	6	7	8	76	30	19	72	8	81.3	3.32	1.168	7.97	3.46	75.0	139.0	2.0
2008	72	7	5	1	90	42	13	59	13	70.7	5.35	1.458	7.51	4.46	99.0	84.3	0.0
2009	63	2	6	0	50	24	23	46	5	63.7	3.39	1.147	6.50	3.81	90.3	124.4	1.2
2010	38	1	3	0	47	30	13	14	8	35.0	7.71	1.714	3.60	6.39	152.5	54.2	-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

769

RBI

.2000

OBP

.2000

SLG

.2000

OPS

.4000

Pitching

G (P)

769

68th-most career G (P)

275th-most career SV

SHO

788

SO (P)

653

BB allowed

253

ERA

3.839

WHIP

1.2493

K/9

7.46

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	H	TB
2006-06-09	CHC @ CIN Gameday	1	1	1
1998-06-22	CWS @ PIT Gameday	0	0	0
1998-07-01	CWS @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0
1998-07-02	CWS @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0
1999-06-12	CWS @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1998-08-22	CWS @ SEA Gameday	2.1	0	0	0	0	5
2004-07-21	CWS @ CLE Gameday	2.1	3	1	1	0	4
1998-07-21	CWS @ TOR Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	4
2000-06-04	CWS @ HOU Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	1	4
2007-09-11	CHC @ HOU Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	4

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.