MLB / Players

Steve Howard

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb
BornDecember 7, 1963 · Oakland, CA, USA
MLB debutJune 16, 1990
Final gameJuly 17, 1990
Seasons1 (1990–1990)

Oakland Athletics 1990

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
-0.2
26

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
1990215652512400141700.231.286.308.59365.270.7.270-0.2

Career totals

G
21
PA
56
AB
52
R
5
H
12
2B
4
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
4
SO
17
SB
0
BA
.2308
OBP
.2857
SLG
.3077
OPS
.5934

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
1990-06-20ATH @ DET Gameday502100103
1990-07-01ATH @ TOR Gameday312100003
1990-07-04ATH @ MIL Gameday212000002
1990-06-16ATH @ CWS Gameday611100002
1990-07-14MIL @ ATH Gameday211100012

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.