MLB / Players

Howard Mills

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 187 lb
BornMay 12, 1910 · Dedham, MA, USA
MLB debutJune 10, 1934
Final gameAugust 29, 1940
Seasons5 (1934–1940)

St. Louis Browns 1934; St. Louis Browns 1937–1940

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified pitchers

G
30
52.1
GS
27
67
W
10
45.7
L
12
20.2
SV
0
0
CG
15
77.7
SHO
1
39.4
H
216
29.8
ER
124
5.3
BB
116
5.3
SO
134
96.8
HR
16
16
IP
210.3
72.3
ERA
5.31
10.6
WHIP
1.578
10.6
K/9
5.73
91.5
FIP
4.60
31.9
FIP-
93.2
57.4
ERA+
93.0
19.1
sWAR
1.1
23.4

of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-1.4
3.2

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
19344330100000200.333.333.333.66761.065.9.3100.2
19372550000000000.000.000.000.000-125.3-100.0.000-0.2
1938308266861003111800.091.221.106.327-11.5-16.8.1851.1
1939345147411101222500.234.265.319.58440.546.1.268-1.0
19402614132200001600.154.214.154.368-9.5-4.3.184-1.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1934400000010411208.74.152.4232.086.50134.0116.80.2
193722110101691010112.76.392.0537.114.94103.674.6-0.2
193830271012015121612411613416210.35.311.5785.734.6093.293.01.1
1939341441124014710511310316144.36.551.8016.425.67118.373.2-1.0
19402650601064515218759.07.781.9662.756.65147.158.1-1.5

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
96
PA
155
AB
134
R
14
H
20
2B
2
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
5
BB
14
SO
51
SB
0
BA
.1493
OBP
.2297
SLG
.1866
OPS
.4163

Pitching

G (P)
96
GS
48
W
15
L
30
SV
2
CG
21
SHO
1
IP
435
SO (P)
267
BB allowed
302
ERA
6.062
WHIP
1.7356
K/9
5.52

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1939-07-06DET @ BAL Gameday211001104
1938-06-22ATH @ BAL Gameday201100002
1939-06-17BAL @ MIN Gameday101100002
1938-07-02DET @ BAL Gameday421000111
1938-09-05DET @ BAL Gameday401000101

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1939-08-24NYY @ BAL Gameday9.01211107103
1938-06-18NYY @ BAL Gameday9.0400480
1938-09-19NYY @ BAL Gameday9.0611080
1938-09-24CWS @ BAL Gameday9.0875580
1939-07-14MIN @ BAL Gameday8.29109381

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.