Jay Howell
Cincinnati Reds 1980; Chicago Cubs 1981; New York Yankees 1982–1984; Oakland Athletics 1985–1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1988–1992; Atlanta Braves 1993; Texas Rangers 1994
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 42.1 | -0.6 | .253 | -0.1 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.9 |
| 1983 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 1984 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.4 |
| 1985 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.2 |
| 1986 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.9 |
| 1987 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1988 | 50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.6 |
| 1989 | 56 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 45 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.8 |
| 1991 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
| 1992 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.6 |
| 1993 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.7 |
| 1994 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.3 | 13.50 | 2.400 | 2.70 | 3.05 | 84.7 | 26.6 | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 22.3 | 4.84 | 1.478 | 4.03 | 5.13 | 140.4 | 75.6 | -0.1 |
| 1982 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 24 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 28.0 | 7.71 | 1.964 | 6.75 | 3.05 | 76.1 | 51.9 | -0.9 |
| 1983 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 89 | 49 | 35 | 61 | 7 | 82.0 | 5.38 | 1.512 | 6.70 | 3.84 | 97.5 | 73.2 | -0.5 |
| 1984 | 61 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 31 | 34 | 109 | 5 | 103.7 | 2.69 | 1.158 | 9.46 | 2.26 | 58.7 | 142.8 | 2.4 |
| 1985 | 63 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 31 | 31 | 68 | 5 | 98.0 | 2.85 | 1.316 | 6.24 | 3.00 | 76.4 | 137.7 | 2.2 |
| 1986 | 38 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 20 | 23 | 42 | 3 | 53.3 | 3.38 | 1.425 | 7.09 | 3.30 | 83.7 | 116.7 | 0.9 |
| 1987 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 29 | 21 | 35 | 6 | 44.3 | 5.89 | 1.556 | 7.11 | 4.54 | 108.0 | 71.5 | -0.4 |
| 1988 | 50 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 15 | 21 | 70 | 1 | 65.0 | 2.08 | 1.000 | 9.69 | 1.77 | 53.3 | 159.7 | 1.6 |
| 1989 | 56 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 14 | 22 | 55 | 3 | 79.7 | 1.58 | 1.029 | 6.21 | 2.60 | 76.1 | 215.9 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 45 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 16 | 20 | 59 | 5 | 66.0 | 2.18 | 1.197 | 8.05 | 3.19 | 86.7 | 168.5 | 1.8 |
| 1991 | 44 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 18 | 11 | 40 | 3 | 51.0 | 3.18 | .980 | 7.06 | 2.69 | 74.8 | 113.4 | 0.8 |
| 1992 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 8 | 18 | 36 | 2 | 46.7 | 1.54 | 1.264 | 6.94 | 3.01 | 86.9 | 224.5 | 1.6 |
| 1993 | 54 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 15 | 16 | 37 | 3 | 58.3 | 2.31 | 1.097 | 5.71 | 3.20 | 79.8 | 173.1 | 1.7 |
| 1994 | 40 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 26 | 16 | 22 | 10 | 43.0 | 5.44 | 1.395 | 4.60 | 6.38 | 134.2 | 87.4 | 0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-08-10 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980-08-18 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980-08-24 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980-09-02 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980-09-16 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-04-06 | NYY @ SEA Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 1983-09-30 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 1984-06-02 | NYY @ TOR Gameday | 3.2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 1983-06-18 | MIL @ NYY Gameday | 8.1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1984-06-16 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.