Steve Howe

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 10, 1958 · Pontiac, MI, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1980

Final gameJune 21, 1996

Seasons12 (1980–1996)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1980–1983; Los Angeles Dodgers 1985; Minnesota Twins 1985; Texas Rangers 1987; New York Yankees 1991–1996

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

12.2

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	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1980	59	11	11	1	1	0	3	.091	.091	.091	.182	-68.4	-48.4	.085	1.7
1981	41	2	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	140.4	55.7	.379	1.1
1982	66	8	7	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.8	-100.0	.000	2.6
1983	46	9	8	1	1	1	3	.125	.222	.125	.347	2.5	-0.2	.187	2.5
1985	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1987	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1991	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
1992	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1993	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1994	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1995	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1996	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1980	59	7	9	17	83	25	22	39	1	84.7	2.66	1.240	4.15	2.83	80.0	133.1	1.7
1981	41	5	3	8	51	15	18	32	2	54.0	2.50	1.278	5.33	2.97	88.5	134.1	1.1
1982	66	7	5	13	87	23	17	49	3	99.3	2.08	1.047	4.44	2.67	76.3	167.8	2.6
1983	46	4	7	18	55	11	12	52	2	68.7	1.44	.976	6.82	2.11	58.8	248.4	2.5
1985	32	3	4	3	58	25	12	21	3	41.0	5.49	1.707	4.61	3.55	92.9	70.8	-0.4
1987	24	3	3	1	33	15	8	19	2	31.3	4.31	1.309	5.46	3.54	79.1	104.0	0.4
1991	37	3	1	3	39	9	7	34	1	48.3	1.68	.952	6.33	2.39	57.9	246.7	1.8
1992	20	3	0	6	9	6	3	12	1	22.0	2.45	.545	4.91	2.70	68.8	159.8	0.6
1993	51	3	5	4	58	28	10	19	7	50.7	4.97	1.342	3.38	4.82	114.5	84.6	0.1
1994	40	3	0	15	28	8	7	18	2	40.0	1.80	.875	4.05	3.47	74.9	257.5	1.6
1995	56	6	3	2	66	27	17	28	7	49.0	4.96	1.694	5.14	5.14	110.5	93.8	0.3
1996	25	0	1	1	19	12	6	5	1	17.0	6.35	1.471	2.65	4.66	94.3	77.8	-0.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

497

RBI

.0741

OBP

.1379

SLG

.0741

OPS

.2120

Pitching

G (P)

497

451st-most career G (P)

196th-most career SV

SHO

606

SO (P)

328

BB allowed

139

ERA

3.030

WHIP

1.1964

K/9

4.87

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	TB
1980-06-03	CIN @ LAD Gameday	1	1	1	1
1983-08-17	NYM @ LAD Gameday	1	0	1	1
1980-04-11	LAD @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0
1980-04-12	LAD @ HOU Gameday	1	0	0	0
1980-04-18	HOU @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1991-06-03	TOR @ NYY Gameday	3.1	2	0	0	0	4
1981-10-28	LAD @ NYY Gameday	3.2	2	0	0	1	3
1982-07-16	NYM @ LAD Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	3
1982-07-21	WSH @ LAD Gameday	3.0	2	3	3	2	3
1983-08-17	NYM @ LAD Gameday	3.0	2	1	1	0	3

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× Rookie of the Year1× 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.