Bruce Howard
Chicago White Sox 1963–1967; Baltimore Orioles 1968; Washington Senators 1968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 36.1 | 43.6 | .227 | 0.4 |
| 1964 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.8 |
| 1965 | 30 | 51 | 41 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .222 | .244 | .466 | 37.4 | 37.7 | .223 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 27 | 52 | 43 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .070 | .180 | .093 | .273 | -12.0 | -15.4 | .151 | 3.1 |
| 1967 | 30 | 32 | 28 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .207 | .214 | .421 | 20.8 | 28.0 | .199 | 0.7 |
| 1968 | 23 | 26 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .087 | .125 | .261 | .386 | 0.1 | 22.5 | .177 | -1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 17.0 | 2.65 | 1.529 | 4.76 | 3.87 | 110.4 | 132.5 | 0.4 |
| 1964 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 22.3 | 0.81 | .806 | 6.85 | 2.15 | 61.9 | 430.3 | 0.8 |
| 1965 | 30 | 22 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 123 | 57 | 72 | 120 | 13 | 148.0 | 3.47 | 1.318 | 7.30 | 3.40 | 105.6 | 92.9 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 27 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 110 | 38 | 44 | 85 | 14 | 149.0 | 2.30 | 1.034 | 5.13 | 3.42 | 107.4 | 138.8 | 3.1 |
| 1967 | 30 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 102 | 43 | 52 | 76 | 9 | 112.7 | 3.43 | 1.367 | 6.07 | 3.57 | 116.0 | 89.7 | 0.7 |
| 1968 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 42 | 49 | 42 | 9 | 79.7 | 4.74 | 1.770 | 4.74 | 4.56 | 155.3 | 61.8 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-05-19 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1965-06-30 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1965-08-24 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1965-10-02 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1966-09-24 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-04-17 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 1967-06-11 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 1965-09-06 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1964-10-04 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1965-08-24 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 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.