Howdy Caton
Pittsburgh Pirates 1917–1920
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 14 | 63 | 57 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .286 | .298 | .584 | 76.2 | 76.5 | .285 | 0.1 |
| 1918 | 80 | 345 | 303 | 37 | 71 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 17 | 32 | 16 | 12 | 0 | .234 | .312 | .297 | .609 | 85.5 | 83.7 | .302 | 1.1 |
| 1919 | 39 | 120 | 102 | 13 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | .176 | .263 | .225 | .489 | 46.9 | 46.4 | .247 | -0.2 |
| 1920 | 98 | 394 | 352 | 29 | 83 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 27 | 33 | 19 | 4 | 9 | .236 | .305 | .295 | .600 | 72.7 | 72.3 | .292 | 0.6 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918-05-28 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1917-09-27 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1918-06-24 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1918-07-06 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1920-07-21 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-04-11 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-12 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-13 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-14 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-15 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.