MLB / Players

Howie Fox

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornMarch 1, 1921 · Coburg, OR, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1944

Final gameSeptember 25, 1954

Seasons9 (1944–1954)

Cincinnati Reds 1944–1946; Cincinnati Reds 1948–1951; Philadelphia Phillies 1952; Baltimore Orioles 1954

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified pitchers

76.9

59.6

19.2

13.5

55.8

19.2

SHO

82.7

239

17.3

19.2

71.2

3.8

53.8

228.0

63.5

ERA

3.83

36.5

WHIP

1.351

K/9

2.25

1.9

FIP

3.67

59.6

FIP-

91.4

63.5

ERA+

104.9

36.5

sWAR

2.5

34.6

of 53 qualified 1951 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

90.9

7.7

sWAR

6.1

81.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1944	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.9	-100.0	.000	0.1
1945	45	53	46	6	13	1	0	5	2	4	0	.283	.313	.304	.617	72.1	74.7	.295	-0.4
1946	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.9
1948	35	64	60	9	12	3	0	4	2	9	0	.200	.238	.250	.488	26.2	33.6	.230	0.6
1949	41	79	72	3	17	3	0	5	0	6	1	.236	.247	.278	.524	29.3	39.4	.239	2.6
1950	35	68	63	7	11	1	1	8	2	10	0	.175	.200	.238	.438	2.2	14.4	.199	1.5
1951	40	80	70	3	8	2	1	1	2	11	0	.114	.139	.186	.325	-32.3	-14.1	.148	2.5
1952	13	25	21	0	1	0	0	1	1	6	0	.048	.091	.048	.139	-77.8	-60.1	.076	-0.6
1954	38	16	16	1	4	1	0	1	0	1	0	.250	.250	.313	.563	42.7	55.2	.257	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1944	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2.3	0.00	.857	0.00	2.53	73.3	—	0.1
1945	45	15	8	13	0	7	0	169	90	77	54	6	164.3	4.93	1.497	2.96	3.97	107.9	74.6	-0.4
1946	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	10	5	1	2	5.0	18.00	3.400	1.80	10.12	307.3	18.3	-0.9
1948	34	24	6	9	1	5	0	185	86	62	63	11	171.0	4.53	1.444	3.32	3.77	97.3	85.6	0.6
1949	38	30	6	19	0	9	0	221	95	77	60	13	215.0	3.98	1.386	2.51	3.89	94.9	103.0	2.6
1950	34	22	11	8	1	10	1	196	90	85	64	14	187.0	4.33	1.503	3.08	4.14	99.5	96.1	1.5
1951	40	30	9	14	2	9	4	239	97	69	57	15	228.0	3.83	1.351	2.25	3.67	91.4	104.9	2.5
1952	13	11	2	7	0	2	0	70	35	26	16	8	62.0	5.08	1.548	2.32	4.84	132.7	71.8	-0.6
1954	38	0	1	2	2	0	0	80	30	34	27	2	73.7	3.67	1.548	3.30	3.46	94.6	100.0	0.8

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

253

386

349

RBI

.1891

OBP

.2139

SLG

.2378

OPS

.4517

Pitching

G (P)

248

132

SHO

1,108

SO (P)

342

BB allowed

435

ERA

4.328

WHIP

1.4517

K/9

2.78

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	HR	RBI	TB
1950-06-01	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	2	4
1950-06-28	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	3	4
1951-08-13	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1949-08-21	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	3
1948-06-12	ATL @ CIN Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-08-09	CIN @ LAD Gameday	11.1	10	4	3	3	6	0
1951-08-13	PIT @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	3	6	0
1952-04-17	PHI @ SF Gameday	8.1	9	3	3	3	6	0
1950-05-07	PHI @ CIN Gameday	6.0	9	6	6	4	6	2
1948-05-31	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	3	2	4	5	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.