MLB / Players

Roy Howell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornDecember 18, 1953 · Lompoc, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1974

Final gameSeptember 29, 1984

Seasons11 (1974–1984)

Texas Rangers 1974–1977; Toronto Blue Jays 1977–1980; Milwaukee Brewers 1981–1984

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

142

33.1

592

42.7

528

42.7

3.2

142

32.3

65.3

86.3

41.1

RBI

31.5

47.6

14.5

.269

30.6

OBP

.335

37.1

SLG

.413

46.8

OPS

.748

41.1

wRC+

99.4

32.3

OPS+

100.9

33.1

wOBA

.336

34.7

sWAR

2.2

41.1

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.0

33.7

OPS+

97.2

36.3

sWAR

11.4

88.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	13	47	44	2	11	1	0	1	3	2	10	0	0	.250	.283	.341	.624	78.5	80.4	.291	0.1
1975	125	430	383	43	96	15	2	10	51	39	79	2	2	.251	.322	.379	.701	96.6	98.8	.322	1.5
1976	140	531	491	55	124	28	2	8	53	30	106	1	0	.253	.295	.367	.661	85.9	92.2	.303	1.1
1977	103	431	381	41	115	17	1	10	44	44	80	4	1	.302	.374	.430	.804	120.9	117.2	.364	2.6
1978	140	601	551	67	149	28	3	8	61	44	78	0	1	.270	.325	.376	.701	94.4	94.4	.323	1.9
1979	138	563	511	60	126	28	4	15	72	42	91	1	4	.247	.310	.405	.715	88.5	89.9	.320	1.3
1980	142	592	528	51	142	28	9	10	57	50	92	0	0	.269	.335	.413	.748	99.4	100.9	.336	2.2
1981	76	273	244	37	58	13	1	6	33	23	39	0	0	.238	.306	.373	.679	96.9	100.2	.310	0.8
1982	98	326	300	31	78	11	2	4	38	21	39	0	2	.260	.305	.350	.655	82.6	84.8	.295	-0.6
1983	69	211	194	23	54	9	6	4	25	15	29	1	3	.278	.330	.448	.779	120.8	119.7	.349	0.6
1984	68	176	164	12	38	5	1	4	17	8	32	0	1	.232	.284	.348	.632	75.7	77.3	.286	0.0

Career totals

1,112

4,181

3,791

422

991

183

RBI

454

318

675

.2614

OBP

.3205

SLG

.3893

OPS

.7098

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1977-09-10	TOR @ NYY Gameday	6	4	5	2	2	9	0	13
1975-08-05	ATH @ TEX Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1979-08-27	ATH @ TOR Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	4	0	8
1980-09-23	TOR @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	1	8
1982-07-05	MIL @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	2	0	7

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

1× 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.