Thomas Howard
San Diego Padres 1990–1991; Cleveland Indians 1992; San Diego Padres 1992; Cincinnati Reds 1993; Cleveland Indians 1993; Cincinnati Reds 1994–1996; Houston Astros 1997; Los Angeles Dodgers 1998; St. Louis Cardinals 1999–2000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 20 | 45 | 44 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | .273 | .273 | .318 | .591 | 57.9 | 62.3 | .270 | -0.1 |
| 1991 | 106 | 309 | 281 | 30 | 70 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 24 | 57 | 10 | 7 | .249 | .309 | .356 | .665 | 83.1 | 85.2 | .304 | 0.2 |
| 1992 | 122 | 391 | 361 | 37 | 100 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 17 | 60 | 15 | 8 | .277 | .308 | .346 | .654 | 83.3 | 85.0 | .302 | 0.1 |
| 1993 | 112 | 348 | 319 | 48 | 81 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 36 | 24 | 63 | 10 | 7 | .254 | .302 | .386 | .687 | 83.0 | 83.7 | .311 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | 83 | 192 | 178 | 24 | 47 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 10 | 30 | 4 | 2 | .264 | .302 | .410 | .712 | 82.8 | 85.0 | .314 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 113 | 304 | 281 | 42 | 85 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 20 | 37 | 17 | 8 | .302 | .350 | .402 | .752 | 101.8 | 99.4 | .341 | 0.9 |
| 1996 | 121 | 386 | 360 | 50 | 98 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 42 | 17 | 51 | 6 | 5 | .272 | .307 | .431 | .738 | 89.4 | 92.6 | .323 | 0.4 |
| 1997 | 107 | 286 | 255 | 24 | 63 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 26 | 48 | 1 | 2 | .247 | .323 | .353 | .676 | 82.5 | 80.8 | .310 | 0.2 |
| 1998 | 47 | 79 | 76 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .184 | .215 | .316 | .531 | 35.7 | 41.5 | .235 | -0.5 |
| 1999 | 98 | 215 | 195 | 16 | 57 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 28 | 17 | 26 | 1 | 1 | .292 | .353 | .436 | .789 | 100.4 | 98.5 | .352 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 86 | 141 | 133 | 13 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 28 | 7 | 34 | 1 | 0 | .211 | .255 | .391 | .646 | 56.9 | 60.5 | .283 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-07-23 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1999-09-17 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1993-08-28 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1996-08-17 | COL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2000-04-12 | STL @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 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.