MLB / Players

Mike Howard

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb
BornApril 2, 1958 · Seattle, WA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 12, 1981
Final gameApril 5, 1983
Seasons3 (1981–1983)

New York Mets 1981–1983

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
-0.3
20.8

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19811429244410034620.167.276.208.48444.240.1.248-0.2
19823348395700136720.179.298.256.55464.257.2.276-0.1
19831330100010100.333.333.333.66785.986.4.3110.0

Career totals

G
48
PA
80
AB
66
R
9
H
12
2B
1
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
7
BB
10
SO
14
SB
4
BA
.1818
OBP
.2911
SLG
.2424
OPS
.5335

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1982-09-24PHI @ NYM Gameday111001104
1982-09-27PIT @ NYM Gameday402000102
1981-09-12NYM @ STL Gameday201100002
1981-09-13NYM @ STL Gameday401000201
1983-04-05PHI @ NYM Gameday301000101

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.