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Art Howe
Arthur Henry Howe Jr.

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2" , Weight: 190 lb.

Born: December 15, 1946 in Pittsburgh, PA
School: University of Wyoming
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1971. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 10, 1974
Final Game: April 19, 1985
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1974	27	PIT	NL	29	84	74	10	18	4	1	1	5	0	0	9	13	.243	.321	.365	.686	95	27	1	0	0	1	0	5/6
1975	28	PIT	NL	63	162	146	13	25	9	0	1	10	1	0	15	15	.171	.248	.253	.502	41	37	5	0	1	0	3	5/6
1976	29	HOU	NL	21	35	29	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	.138	.286	.172	.458	38	5	1	0	0	0	1	/54
1977	30	HOU	NL	125	463	413	44	109	23	7	8	58	0	1	41	60	.264	.336	.412	.748	108	170	10	5	2	2	6	456
1978	31	HOU	NL	119	461	420	46	123	33	3	7	55	2	3	34	41	.293	.343	.436	.779	125	183	13	1	1	5	3	45/3
1979	32	HOU	NL	118	398	355	32	88	15	2	6	33	3	1	36	37	.248	.316	.352	.668	87	125	7	1	2	4	5	45/3
1980	33	HOU	NL	110	364	321	34	91	12	5	10	46	1	0	34	29	.283	.350	.445	.795	129	143	9	1	4	4	6	35/64
1981	34	HOU	NL	103	406	361	43	107	22	4	3	36	1	3	41	23	.296	.365	.404	.770	124	146	8	0	1	3	7	*5/3	MVP-18
1982	35	HOU	NL	110	414	365	29	87	15	1	5	38	2	0	41	45	.238	.315	.326	.641	87	119	10	1	4	3	15	53

1984	37	STL	NL	89	161	139	17	30	5	0	2	12	0	2	18	18	.216	.300	.295	.595	70	41	6	0	1	3	1	53/46
1985	38	STL	NL	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	/35
11 Seasons				891	2951	2626	268	682	139	23	43	293	10	10	275	287	.260	.329	.379	.708	102	996	70	9	16	25	47
162 Game Avg.				162	537	477	49	124	25	4	8	53	2	2	50	52	.260	.329	.379	.708	102	181	13	2	3	5	9

HOU (7 yrs)				706	2541	2264	228	609	121	22	39	266	9	8	233	241	.269	.337	.394	.730	109	891	58	9	14	21	43
PIT (2 yrs)				92	246	220	23	43	13	1	2	15	1	0	24	28	.195	.273	.291	.564	59	64	6	0	1	1	3
STL (2 yrs)				93	164	142	17	30	5	0	2	12	0	2	18	18	.211	.294	.289	.583	66	41	6	0	1	3	1

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1974	27	PIT	NL	84	58	9	4.2	92	.279	.243	.259	.321	.330	.365	.374	.686	.704	95	.492	-0.4	0.0	.632	.243	.122	.0
1975	28	PIT	NL	162	127	9	1.9	95	.185	.171	.264	.248	.335	.253	.382	.502	.716	41	.183	-11.8	-1.2	.421	.192	.082	1.0
1976	29	HOU	NL	35	26	2	2.1	84	.174	.138	.252	.286	.317	.172	.359	.458	.676	38	.223	-2.0	-0.2	.423	.241	.034
1977	30	HOU	NL	463	319	57	4.8	95	.291	.264	.258	.336	.324	.412	.394	.748	.718	108	.519	5.5	0.5	.683	.245	.148	.0
1978	31	HOU	NL	461	319	60	5.0	88	.308	.293	.252	.343	.319	.436	.371	.779	.690	125	.585	14.6	1.5	.693	.221	.143	3.1
1979	32	HOU	NL	398	281	41	3.9	94	.259	.248	.262	.316	.326	.352	.388	.668	.715	87	.447	-5.3	-0.5	.596	.211	.104	4.0
1980	33	HOU	NL	364	247	50	5.5	88	.283	.283	.257	.350	.318	.445	.373	.795	.691	129	.614	12.6	1.3	.749	.271	.162	1.8
1981	34	HOU	NL	406	269	53	5.3	88	.308	.296	.256	.365	.321	.404	.368	.770	.689	124	.616	12.5	1.3	.698	.216	.108	1.5
1982	35	HOU	NL	414	295	38	3.5	88	.258	.238	.256	.315	.318	.326	.372	.641	.690	87	.413	-4.9	-0.5	.566	.205	.088	2.9

1984	37	STL	NL	161	121	12	2.7	92	.230	.216	.261	.300	.326	.295	.379	.595	.705	70	.306	-4.9	-0.5	.487	.194	.079	.0
1985	38	STL	NL	3	3	0	0.0	95	.000	.000	.260	.000	.328	.000	.387	.000	.715	-100	.000	-0.8	-0.1	.000	.000	.000
11 Seasons				2951	2065	331	4.3	91	.275	.260	.258	.329	.322	.379	.378	.708	.700	102	.502	15.2	1.6	.632	.224	.120	16.2
162 Game Avg.				537	375	60	4.3	91	.275	.260	.258	.329	.322	.379	.378	.708	.700	102	.502	3	0	.632	.224	.120	3

HOU (7 yrs)				2541	1756	301	4.6	90	.284	.269	.257	.337	.321	.394	.378	.730	.699	109	.533	33.1	3.4	.659	.228	.125	14.6
PIT (2 yrs)				246	185	18	2.6	94	.215	.195	.262	.273	.333	.291	.379	.564	.712	59	.288	-12.2	-1.2	.486	.209	.095	1.3
STL (2 yrs)				164	124	12	2.6	92	.224	.211	.261	.294	.326	.289	.380	.583	.705	66	.296	-5.8	-0.6	.475	.190	.077	.0

Postseason Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1974	27	PIT	NL	NLCS	LAD	L	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

1980	33	HOU	NL	NLCS	PHI	L	5	18	15	0	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	2	2	.200	.278	.400	.678	6	0	0	0	1	2
1981	34	HOU	NL	NLDS	LAD	L	5	18	16	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	.188	.278	.375	.653	6	0	0	0	0	1
3 Seasons (3 Series)							11	37	32	1	6	1	1	1	3	0	0	4	3	.188	.270	.375	.645	12	0	0	0	1	3
1 NLDS							5	18	16	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	.188	.278	.375	.653	6	0	0	0	0	1
2 NLCS							6	19	16	0	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	2	2	.188	.263	.375	.638	6	0	0	0	1	2

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1974	27	PIT	NL	84	1.2%	15.5%	10.7%	7.1%	33%	1.44	5.7	74.0	14.8	1.05	73%
1975	28	PIT	NL	162	0.6%	9.3%	9.3%	6.2%	40%	1.00	9.7	146.0	14.6	0.86	80%
1976	29	HOU	NL	35	0.0%	17.1%	17.1%	2.9%	25%	1.00	4.8			1.00	66%
1977	30	HOU	NL	463	1.7%	13.0%	8.9%	8.2%	35%	1.46	6.9	51.6	7.1	1.10	75%
1978	31	HOU	NL	461	1.5%	8.9%	7.4%	9.3%	35%	1.21	10.2	60.0	7.6	1.15	82%
1979	32	HOU	NL	398	1.5%	9.3%	9.1%	5.8%	26%	1.03	9.6	59.2	10.8	1.03	79%
1980	33	HOU	NL	364	2.8%	8.0%	9.3%	7.4%	30%	0.85	11.1	32.1	7.0	1.00	79%
1981	34	HOU	NL	406	0.7%	5.7%	10.1%	7.1%	27%	0.56	15.7	120.3	10.0	1.02	83%
1982	35	HOU	NL	414	1.2%	10.9%	9.9%	5.1%	24%	1.10	8.1	73.0	9.6	1.18	77%

1984	37	STL	NL	161	1.2%	11.2%	11.2%	4.4%	23%	1.00	7.7	69.5	11.6	1.15	76%
1985	38	STL	NL	3	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%						0.50	100%
11 Seasons				2951	1.5%	9.7%	9.3%	7.0%	30%	1.04	9.2	61.1	9.0	1.07	79%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1974	27	PIT	NL	0	1	35%	34	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	44%	5	3	2	0	0	0	4	1	2
1975	28	PIT	NL	4	0	31%	54	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	46%	4	3	1	0	0	0	7	3	4
1976	29	HOU	NL	0	0	0%	12	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0%	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
1977	30	HOU	NL	5	0	25%	153	0	1	0%	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	7	63%	10	6	4	5	1	3	15	2	12
1978	31	HOU	NL	6	1	26%	157	2	3	40%	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	10	7	44%	22	12	7	3	1	2	14	4	8
1979	32	HOU	NL	5	0	22%	138	3	1	75%	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	4	4	47%	16	8	6	7	3	4	7	3	4
1980	33	HOU	NL	4	0	21%	109	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	49%	25	14	10	3	1	2	7	2	5
1981	34	HOU	NL	7	0	28%	147	1	3	25%	1	1	0	2	0	0	2	1	6	10	43%	26	14	11	8	6	2	15	6	8
1982	35	HOU	NL	4	1	19%	131	2	0	100%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	46%	22	13	8	4	1	3	13	6	7

1984	37	STL	NL	0	0	33%	52	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	39%	7	6	1	3	1	2	3	1	2
1985	38	STL	NL	0	0		0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11 Seasons				35	3	24%	987	10	10	50%	10	6	0	4	0	0	7	3	34	50	47%	139	81	50	33	14	18	86	29	52
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1974	27	PIT	NL	85	59%	18			8	4	0	1	1.55	1	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0		13	1	8%	3	2	67%	46	4	9%	4	2	50%	1	0	0%	0
1975	28	PIT	NL	162	52%	25			18	4	0	0	1.03	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	3	1	33%	32	5	16%	24	4	17%	105	11	10%	11	3	27%	15	2	13%	0
1976	29	HOU	NL	35	49%	4			7	1	0	0	1.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		3	1	33%	3	0	0%	9	0	0%	0	0		2	0	0%	0
1977	30	HOU	NL	463	29%	109			6	3	0	0	1.48	8	1	14	6	2	1	7	0	2	2	100%	87	10	11%	41	13	32%	303	54	18%	21	13	62%	27	15	56%	0
1978	31	HOU	NL	462	30%	123			3	1	0	0	0.28	7	0	13	5	2	3	4	0	1	1	100%	93	13	14%	37	10	27%	304	51	17%	31	17	55%	29	9	31%	0
1979	32	HOU	NL	398	37%	88			11	1	0	1	2.63	6	0	6	4	2	0	6	0	2	2	100%	65	7	11%	34	14	41%	239	30	13%	21	9	43%	30	9	30%	0
1980	33	HOU	NL	364	58%	91			19	2	1	2	2.51	10	0	14	3	7	3	7	0	4	4	100%	60	9	15%	32	14	44%	269	36	13%	26	10	38%	39	11	28%	0
1981	34	HOU	NL	406	34%	107			3	1	0	0	3.26	3	0	13	1	2	3	0	0	1	1	100%	65	8	12%	26	13	50%	244	36	15%	31	18	58%	22	9	41%	0
1982	35	HOU	NL	415	27%	87			3	0	0	0	4.13	5	0	9	3	2	4	1	1	4	4	100%	66	10	15%	41	13	32%	254	33	13%	25	9	36%	33	13	39%	0

1984	37	STL	NL	161	62%	30			22	7	0	2	1.61	2	0	5	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	100%	32	6	19%	18	10	56%	107	10	9%	10	6	60%	12	5	42%	0
1985	38	STL	NL	3	67%	0			3	0	0	0	1.80	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	0%	0	0		2	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
11 Seasons				2954	38%	682			103	24	1	6	1.83	43	1	81	24	19	16	27	1	18	16	89%	517	70	14%	259	93	36%	1882	265	14%	180	87	48%	210	73	35%	0
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1974	27	29	84	74	10	18	4	1	1	5	0	0	9	13	.243	.321	.365	.686	95	27	1	0	0	1	0
1975	28	92	246	220	23	43	13	1	2	15	1	0	24	28	.195	.273	.291	.564	59	64	6	0	1	1	3
1976	29	113	281	249	23	47	14	1	2	15	1	0	30	34	.189	.275	.277	.552	57	69	7	0	1	1	4
1977	30	238	744	662	67	156	37	8	10	73	1	1	71	94	.236	.313	.361	.674	89	239	17	5	3	3	10
1978	31	357	1205	1082	113	279	70	11	17	128	3	4	105	135	.258	.325	.390	.715	103	422	30	6	4	8	13
1979	32	475	1603	1437	145	367	85	13	23	161	6	5	141	172	.255	.322	.381	.703	99	547	37	7	6	12	18
1980	33	585	1967	1758	179	458	97	18	33	207	7	5	175	201	.261	.328	.392	.720	104	690	46	8	10	16	24
1981	34	688	2373	2119	222	565	119	22	36	243	8	8	216	224	.267	.334	.395	.729	108	836	54	8	11	19	31
1982	35	798	2787	2484	251	652	134	23	41	281	10	8	257	269	.262	.331	.384	.716	105	955	64	9	15	22	46
1983	36	798	2787	2484	251	652	134	23	41	281	10	8	257	269	.262	.331	.384	.716	105	955	64	9	15	22	46
1984	37	887	2948	2623	268	682	139	23	43	293	10	10	275	287	.260	.329	.380	.709	103	996	70	9	16	25	47
1985	38	891	2951	2626	268	682	139	23	43	293	10	10	275	287	.260	.329	.379	.708	102	996	70	9	16	25	47

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1974	27	29	86	75	11	19	4	1	1	5	0	10	13	.253	.337	.373	.711	10	29
1975	28	63	163	147	15	26	9	0	1	11	1	16	15	.177	.258	.259	.516	10	63
1976	29	21	38	30	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	8	6	.167	.342	.200	.542	2	21
1977	30	125	472	421	49	117	25	8	9	64	0	44	60	.278	.352	.439	.791	63	125
1978	31	119	474	431	56	134	36	3	8	67	2	37	41	.311	.363	.464	.827	73	119
1979	32	118	406	362	35	95	16	2	6	37	3	39	37	.262	.333	.367	.700	45	118
1980	33	110	372	330	40	100	13	5	11	54	1	37	29	.303	.371	.473	.844	59	110
1981	34	156	638	564	77	179	37	7	5	65	2	69	35	.317	.389	.434	.823	95	103
1982	35	110	423	374	34	96	17	1	6	45	2	45	45	.257	.336	.356	.691	44	110

1984	37	89	162	140	19	31	5	0	2	13	0	19	18	.221	.309	.300	.609	13	89
1985	38	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	4
11 Seasons		944	3237	2877	336	802	163	27	49	361	11	324	299	.279	.351	.405	.756	414	891
162 Game Avg.		162	556	494	58	138	28	5	8	62	2	56	51	.279	.351	.405	.756	71	891

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

MVP (yr-lg-rk-shr)
1981-NL-18-5%
0.05 Career Shares (1085th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1982 NL--15--5th

AB per SO s c a p y
1981 NL--15.696--9th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 5 (2562), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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