Larry Howard
Houston Astros 1970–1972; Atlanta Braves 1973; Houston Astros 1973
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 31 | 98 | 88 | 11 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .307 | .378 | .443 | .821 | 121.1 | 123.8 | .367 | 0.8 |
| 1971 | 24 | 68 | 64 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .234 | .265 | .375 | .640 | 77.9 | 82.1 | .292 | 0.3 |
| 1972 | 54 | 175 | 157 | 16 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 17 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .223 | .299 | .306 | .605 | 71.8 | 74.5 | .283 | 0.5 |
| 1973 | 24 | 64 | 56 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .161 | .254 | .214 | .468 | 22.2 | 30.7 | .219 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-09-07 | HOU @ SD Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1971-07-30 | HOU @ WSH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1972-06-09 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1972-09-27 | SF @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1970-08-21 | HOU @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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.