Harry Howell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in

BornNovember 14, 1876 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutOctober 10, 1898

Final gameMay 14, 1910

Seasons13 (1898–1910)

Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1898; Baltimore Orioles 1899; Brooklyn Superbas 1900; Baltimore Orioles 1901–1902; New York Highlanders 1903; St. Louis Browns 1904–1910

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified pitchers

75.3

74.1

12.3

88.9

SHO

29.6

279

3.7

25.9

32.1

117

69.1

324.3

90.1

ERA

1.89

80.2

WHIP

1.076

75.3

K/9

3.25

38.3

FIP

2.37

53.1

FIP-

101.8

ERA+

123.6

77.8

sWAR

5.3

90.1

of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.0

64.7

sWAR

34.9

97.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1898	2	10	8	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	.250	.333	.250	.583	76.5	67.4	.300	-0.1
1899	28	90	82	4	12	2	2	0	3	3	22	0	.146	.195	.220	.415	20.1	13.6	.204	1.7
1900	22	49	42	6	12	2	0	1	6	6	5	1	.286	.388	.405	.793	119.3	118.8	.383	1.4
1901	53	198	188	26	41	10	5	2	26	5	41	6	.218	.242	.356	.599	63.4	63.7	.274	3.3
1902	96	377	347	42	93	16	11	2	42	18	60	7	.268	.312	.395	.706	88.1	90.4	.328	1.9
1903	40	115	106	14	23	3	2	1	12	5	24	1	.217	.259	.311	.570	65.9	67.1	.266	1.1
1904	36	123	113	9	25	5	2	1	6	4	33	0	.221	.261	.327	.588	86.7	89.6	.278	4.6
1905	42	140	135	9	26	6	2	1	10	3	44	0	.193	.216	.289	.505	58.2	63.0	.240	5.8
1906	35	112	103	5	13	3	1	0	6	6	14	2	.126	.174	.175	.349	8.9	10.7	.176	4.2
1907	44	130	114	12	27	5	0	2	7	7	29	2	.237	.281	.333	.614	94.3	97.1	.299	6.0
1908	41	125	120	10	22	7	0	1	9	4	33	0	.183	.210	.267	.476	50.7	56.4	.230	5.3
1909	18	39	34	5	6	1	0	0	3	2	15	0	.176	.222	.206	.428	33.2	36.5	.216	0.1
1910	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-114.8	-100.0	.000	-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
1898	2	2	2	0	0	2	0	15	10	11	2	0	18.0	5.00	1.444	1.00	4.55	126.1	72.1	-0.1
1899	28	25	13	8	1	21	0	248	91	69	58	1	209.3	3.91	1.514	2.49	3.58	93.0	98.4	1.7
1900	21	10	6	5	0	7	2	131	46	36	26	4	110.3	3.75	1.514	2.12	3.89	105.2	98.5	1.4
1901	37	34	14	21	0	32	1	333	120	79	93	5	294.7	3.67	1.398	2.84	3.38	91.5	100.8	3.3
1902	26	23	9	15	0	19	1	243	91	48	33	5	199.0	4.12	1.462	1.49	3.63	97.3	90.7	1.9
1903	25	15	9	6	0	13	0	140	61	44	62	4	155.7	3.53	1.182	3.58	3.28	106.4	87.4	1.1
1904	34	33	13	21	0	32	2	254	73	60	122	1	299.7	2.19	1.048	3.66	2.46	99.7	112.8	4.6
1905	38	37	15	22	0	35	4	252	71	101	198	2	323.0	1.98	1.093	5.52	2.36	93.2	128.2	5.8
1906	35	33	15	14	1	30	6	233	65	61	140	1	276.7	2.11	1.063	4.55	2.28	87.1	123.9	4.2
1907	42	35	16	15	3	26	2	258	68	88	118	3	316.3	1.93	1.094	3.36	2.63	105.0	129.4	6.0
1908	41	32	18	18	1	27	2	279	68	70	117	1	324.3	1.89	1.076	3.25	2.37	101.8	123.6	5.3
1909	10	3	1	1	0	0	0	42	13	8	16	0	37.3	3.13	1.339	3.86	2.31	95.5	77.3	0.1
1910	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	2	1	0	3.3	10.80	2.700	2.70	3.45	140.9	22.7	-0.4

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

458

1,510

1,394

143

302

RBI

131

322

.2166

OBP

.2571

SLG

.3192

OPS

.5763

Pitching

G (P)

340

282

412th-most career GS

131

369th-most career W

146

181st-most career L

244

88th-most career CG

SHO

246th-most career SHO

2,568

236th-most career IP

SO (P)

986

BB allowed

677

423rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.738

90th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2120

197th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.46

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	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1902-09-20	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	1	7
1901-09-13	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	0	3	2	1	0	4	7
1901-09-26	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	7
1907-09-15	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	0	7
1902-09-15	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	2	1	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1905-04-23	CLE @ BAL Gameday	11.0	4	0	0	0	10
1904-05-21	BAL @ BOS Gameday	13.0	8	3	3	3	9
1905-08-23	NYY @ BAL Gameday	12.0	10	1	0	2	9
1905-05-06	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	4	0	4	9
1905-05-19	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	7	3	0	3	9

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.