MLB / Players

Howie Schultz

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 200 lb

BornJuly 3, 1922 · St. Paul, MN, USA

MLB debutAugust 16, 1943

Final gameSeptember 8, 1948

Seasons6 (1943–1948)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1943–1947; Philadelphia Phillies 1947; Cincinnati Reds 1948; Philadelphia Phillies 1948

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified batters

138

48.2

556

526

58.2

45.5

134

46.4

79.1

22.7

74.5

RBI

80.9

23.6

4.5

66.4

.255

17.3

OBP

.290

7.3

SLG

.390

48.2

OPS

.680

29.1

wRC+

84.4

24.5

OPS+

89.7

28.2

wOBA

.313

23.6

sWAR

-0.4

3.6

of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-4.8

0.1

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1943	45	190	182	20	49	12	0	1	34	6	24	3	.269	.300	.352	.652	81.0	86.7	.308	-0.2
1944	138	556	526	59	134	32	3	11	83	24	67	6	.255	.290	.390	.680	84.4	89.7	.313	-0.4
1945	39	157	142	18	34	8	2	1	19	10	14	2	.239	.294	.345	.639	73.7	77.2	.303	-0.3
1946	90	272	249	27	63	14	1	3	27	16	34	2	.253	.298	.353	.652	78.5	84.3	.308	-0.6
1947	116	430	404	30	90	19	1	6	35	21	70	0	.223	.263	.319	.582	49.4	55.8	.268	-2.3
1948	42	93	85	9	13	0	0	2	10	5	9	2	.153	.200	.224	.424	6.6	15.5	.200	-1.0

Career totals

470

1,698

1,588

163

383

RBI

208

218

.2412

OBP

.2810

SLG

.3489

OPS

.6299

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
1944-04-30	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1944-08-30	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	0	2	0	7
1946-05-28	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1946-05-22	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1944-06-13	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-22	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-28	LAD @ PHI 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.