Steve Hovley
Seattle Pilots 1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970; Oakland Athletics 1970–1971; Kansas City Royals 1972–1973
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 91 | 364 | 329 | 41 | 91 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 30 | 34 | 10 | 4 | .277 | .338 | .365 | .703 | 97.8 | 97.2 | .328 | 0.9 |
| 1970 | 112 | 258 | 235 | 25 | 57 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 1 | .243 | .310 | .285 | .595 | 66.6 | 67.1 | .282 | -0.4 |
| 1971 | 24 | 36 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .111 | .306 | .185 | .491 | 60.6 | 45.0 | .267 | -0.1 |
| 1972 | 105 | 226 | 196 | 24 | 53 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 24 | 29 | 3 | 3 | .270 | .351 | .352 | .703 | 113.2 | 108.0 | .336 | 0.9 |
| 1973 | 104 | 268 | 232 | 29 | 59 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 33 | 34 | 6 | 4 | .254 | .346 | .323 | .669 | 89.3 | 85.8 | .320 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-08-05 | MIL @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1972-07-27 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1969-09-08 | CWS @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1969-07-04 | MIL @ KC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1973-09-08 | LAA @ KC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
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.