Howie Goss
Pittsburgh Pirates 1962; Houston Colt .45's 1963
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 89 | 122 | 111 | 19 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 36 | 5 | 2 | .243 | .306 | .351 | .657 | 78.7 | 77.1 | .304 | -0.2 |
| 1963 | 133 | 448 | 411 | 37 | 86 | 18 | 2 | 9 | 44 | 31 | 128 | 4 | 6 | .209 | .264 | .328 | .592 | 72.3 | 74.5 | .271 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-05-28 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 1962-04-29 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1963-05-02 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1963-08-09 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1962-08-03 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-05-17 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-21 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-22 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-10 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-09-30 | PIT @ ATL 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.