Howie Pollet

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornJune 26, 1921 · New Orleans, LA, USA

MLB debutAugust 20, 1941

Final gameSeptember 23, 1956

Seasons14 (1941–1956)

St. Louis Cardinals 1941–1943; St. Louis Cardinals 1946–1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951; Pittsburgh Pirates 1952; Chicago Cubs 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1953; Chicago Cubs 1954–1955; Chicago White Sox 1956; Pittsburgh Pirates 1956

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified pitchers

61.7

SHO

217

16.7

56.7

38.3

214.0

56.7

ERA

4.12

23.3

WHIP

1.346

K/9

3.79

33.3

FIP

3.95

13.3

FIP-

100.3

ERA+

95.5

31.7

sWAR

1.9

38.3

of 61 qualified 1952 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.0

78.5

sWAR

33.2

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	9	30	28	0	5	1	0	3	1	12	.179	.207	.214	.421	4.6	16.5	.201	2.2
1942	27	40	31	2	7	2	0	7	7	7	.226	.368	.290	.659	101.4	90.6	.335	2.2
1943	16	45	43	3	7	1	0	1	1	9	.163	.182	.186	.368	-11.3	6.2	.177	3.4
1946	40	100	87	2	14	4	0	7	6	23	.161	.215	.207	.422	5.8	19.0	.208	7.1
1947	37	66	65	5	15	1	2	5	1	13	.231	.242	.308	.550	32.6	43.6	.250	1.6
1948	38	76	68	6	8	1	0	4	3	9	.118	.155	.132	.287	-38.1	-22.8	.141	0.6
1949	39	93	82	10	16	1	0	6	8	18	.195	.267	.207	.474	24.8	27.5	.234	5.9
1950	38	91	84	7	12	2	0	3	5	18	.143	.191	.167	.358	-17.9	-6.3	.173	4.6
1951	27	49	37	4	5	0	0	1	8	13	.135	.289	.135	.424	21.9	13.3	.234	0.1
1952	31	78	68	4	13	0	0	4	8	17	.191	.276	.191	.467	25.7	28.3	.236	1.9
1953	30	41	34	3	5	0	0	2	3	6	.147	.216	.147	.363	-10.1	-4.6	.181	0.7
1954	20	51	47	6	13	2	0	4	1	6	.277	.292	.319	.611	50.7	58.1	.277	2.4
1955	24	18	15	0	6	2	0	0	2	5	.400	.471	.533	1.004	175.1	164.9	.451	-0.2
1956	31	12	9	2	3	0	0	1	1	3	.333	.400	.333	.733	105.5	90.7	.352	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
1941	9	8	5	2	0	6	2	55	15	27	37	1	70.0	1.93	1.171	4.76	2.89	76.6	195.9	2.2
1942	27	13	7	5	0	5	2	102	35	39	42	7	109.3	2.88	1.290	3.46	3.47	101.2	119.2	2.2
1943	16	14	8	4	0	12	5	83	23	32	61	2	118.3	1.75	.972	4.64	2.52	74.7	193.1	3.4
1946	40	32	21	10	5	22	4	228	62	86	107	12	266.0	2.10	1.180	3.62	3.13	90.2	165.4	7.1
1947	37	24	9	11	2	9	0	195	85	87	73	11	176.3	4.34	1.599	3.73	4.08	98.2	95.8	1.6
1948	36	26	13	8	0	11	0	216	94	67	80	10	186.3	4.54	1.519	3.86	3.52	86.2	89.9	0.6
1949	39	28	20	9	1	17	5	228	71	59	108	9	230.7	2.77	1.244	4.21	2.89	70.2	148.8	5.9
1950	37	30	14	13	2	14	2	228	85	68	117	19	232.3	3.29	1.274	4.53	3.40	80.0	129.2	4.6
1951	27	23	6	13	1	4	1	159	78	59	57	25	141.0	4.98	1.546	3.64	5.15	123.8	83.5	0.1
1952	31	30	7	16	0	9	1	217	98	71	90	22	214.0	4.12	1.346	3.79	3.95	100.3	95.5	1.9
1953	30	19	6	7	1	2	0	147	66	50	53	8	124.0	4.79	1.589	3.85	3.83	87.1	91.9	0.7
1954	20	20	8	10	0	4	2	131	51	54	58	4	128.3	3.58	1.442	4.07	3.18	76.5	116.3	2.4
1955	24	7	4	3	5	1	1	62	38	27	27	11	61.0	5.61	1.459	3.98	5.09	124.4	73.0	-0.2
1956	30	4	3	5	3	0	0	45	20	19	24	5	49.7	3.62	1.289	4.35	3.87	99.0	108.3	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

407

790

698

129

RBI

159

.1848

OBP

.2444

SLG

.2149

OPS

.4593

Pitching

G (P)

403

278

424th-most career GS

131

369th-most career W

116

380th-most career L

116

342nd-most career CG

SHO

175th-most career SHO

2,107

396th-most career IP

SO (P)

934

BB allowed

745

314th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.506

450th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3481

K/9

3.99

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	RBI	TB
1947-07-25	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	7
1955-05-07	CHC @ CIN Gameday	3	0	3	2	0	0	5
1949-10-02	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	3	4
1954-08-31	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	3	4
1952-07-26	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-07-13	STL @ PHI Gameday	10.0	7	2	2	1	9	0
1948-05-07	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	4	1	4	9	0
1950-07-01	PIT @ STL Gameday	8.2	6	4	4	2	9	0
1943-07-04	STL @ LAD Gameday	10.0	3	0	0	2	8	0
1946-04-18	PIT @ STL Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	4	8	1

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.

Honors

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.