Byron Houck
Philadelphia Athletics 1912–1913; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1914; Philadelphia Athletics 1914; St. Louis Browns 1918
Percentile snapshot
1913 season — qualified pitchers
of 80 qualified 1913 pitchers (min 153 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 30 | 68 | 62 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .065 | .094 | .081 | .174 | -47.4 | -49.0 | .090 | 1.7 |
| 1913 | 41 | 68 | 60 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .127 | .100 | .227 | -40.6 | -32.6 | .120 | -1.5 |
| 1914 | 20 | 36 | 33 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .286 | .424 | .710 | 95.3 | 101.6 | .329 | 1.3 |
| 1918 | 27 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .190 | .200 | .390 | 6.1 | 18.6 | .196 | 1.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 30 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 148 | 59 | 74 | 75 | 1 | 180.7 | 2.94 | 1.229 | 3.74 | 3.62 | 113.1 | 108.9 | 1.7 |
| 1913 | 41 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 147 | 81 | 122 | 71 | 3 | 176.0 | 4.14 | 1.528 | 3.63 | 4.09 | 142.8 | 69.1 | -1.5 |
| 1914 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 109 | 36 | 49 | 49 | 4 | 103.0 | 3.15 | 1.534 | 4.28 | 3.71 | 117.9 | 100.1 | 1.3 |
| 1918 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 19 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 71.7 | 2.39 | 1.214 | 3.64 | 2.56 | 94.2 | 114.1 | 1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918-08-23 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1912-07-13 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1913-05-02 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1918-08-11 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1912-09-28 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-09-28 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1912-07-19 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1913-04-21 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 8.2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 0 |
| 1912-07-02 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1912-07-13 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 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.