David Howard
Kansas City Royals 1991–1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1998–1999
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 94 | 264 | 236 | 20 | 51 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 45 | 3 | 2 | .216 | .267 | .258 | .525 | 45.1 | 46.4 | .248 | -0.5 |
| 1992 | 74 | 244 | 219 | 19 | 49 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 15 | 43 | 3 | 4 | .224 | .271 | .283 | .554 | 52.4 | 54.8 | .262 | -0.1 |
| 1993 | 15 | 29 | 24 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .333 | .370 | .417 | .787 | 108.3 | 108.1 | .356 | 0.2 |
| 1994 | 46 | 100 | 83 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 23 | 3 | 2 | .229 | .309 | .313 | .623 | 62.1 | 60.2 | .288 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 95 | 287 | 255 | 23 | 62 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 24 | 41 | 6 | 1 | .243 | .310 | .325 | .635 | 67.2 | 66.3 | .292 | -0.1 |
| 1996 | 143 | 485 | 420 | 51 | 92 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 48 | 40 | 74 | 5 | 6 | .219 | .291 | .305 | .595 | 53.4 | 51.7 | .275 | -0.6 |
| 1997 | 80 | 177 | 162 | 24 | 39 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 31 | 2 | 2 | .241 | .287 | .321 | .608 | 54.2 | 57.6 | .274 | -0.4 |
| 1998 | 46 | 117 | 102 | 15 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .322 | .333 | .655 | 70.9 | 73.7 | .295 | 0.1 |
| 1999 | 52 | 92 | 82 | 3 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 27 | 0 | 2 | .207 | .286 | .293 | .578 | 37.7 | 47.1 | .254 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 4.50 | 3.500 | 0.00 | 10.70 | 218.1 | 109.0 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-04-24 | BAL @ KC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1997-04-23 | KC @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1997-06-15 | KC @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1995-08-13 | SEA @ KC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1996-08-03 | NYY @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994-04-12 | BOS @ KC Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 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.