MLB / Players

Howard Bailey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb
BornJuly 31, 1957 · Grand Haven, MI, USA
MLB debutApril 12, 1981
Final gameOctober 1, 1983
Seasons3 (1981–1983)

Detroit Tigers 1981–1983

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
-0.7
9.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19819000000000000-1.3
198280000000000000.6
1983330000000000000.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1981951400045301317436.77.361.5824.174.34115.950.9-1.3
198280001006023010.00.00.8002.702.6966.70.6
198333355000693925211172.04.881.3062.635.35135.581.10.0

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

G
50
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
50
GS
8
W
6
L
9
SV
1
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
119
SO (P)
41
BB allowed
40
ERA
5.233
WHIP
1.3483
K/9
3.11

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

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1981-04-22DET @ NYY Gameday6.1544041
1981-04-17DET @ TOR Gameday5.0644431
1981-05-09DET @ LAA Gameday2.0655130
1983-08-11NYY @ DET Gameday8.1533321
1983-07-31KC @ DET Gameday6.21077122

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.