MLB / Players

Howard Wakefield

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 205 lb
BornApril 2, 1884 · Bucyrus, OH, USA
MLB debutSeptember 18, 1905
Final gameAugust 15, 1907
Seasons3 (1905–1907)

Cleveland Naps 1905; Washington Senators 1906; Cleveland Naps 1907

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
1.2
65.1

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
19051027263400010800.154.185.154.3395.87.8.169-0.1
19067722021117599212172360.280.303.355.658102.5106.3.3141.4
19072640374520033500.135.200.189.38926.225.1.200-0.1

Career totals

G
113
PA
287
AB
274
R
24
H
68
2B
11
3B
2
HR
1
RBI
25
BB
10
SO
36
SB
6
BA
.2482
OBP
.2772
SLG
.3139
OPS
.5911

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
1906-09-08MIN @ BOS Gameday413001406
1906-07-04BOS @ MIN Gameday423100004
1907-06-15CLE @ ATH Gameday312200104
1906-07-07DET @ MIN Gameday403000003
1906-09-22MIN @ DET Gameday403000003

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1905-04-15DET @ CLE Gameday0.0000000
1905-04-19CLE @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1905-04-22CLE @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1905-04-23CLE @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1905-04-24CLE @ DET Gameday0.0000000

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.