P · 2019

Sam Howard

Age: 29
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 195 lb

Born: March 5, 1993 in Cartersville, GA, USA
MLB debut: June 10, 2018

Age shown as of the 2022 season.

dbWAR: -.6
PA: 1
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -107

Sam Howard is a pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He made contact on 33.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -107 wRC+ puts his offence 207% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2019.

wRC+-107

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2019	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-107	-0.0	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	3	0	2.0	0	0	2	2	1	4	9.00	16.11	3.00	4.5	18.0	227	406	-0.3
2021	54	1	45.0	3	4	34	28	60	32	5.60	4.86	1.47	12.0	6.4	131	114	-0.1
2020	22	0	21.0	2	3	17	9	27	9	3.86	4.81	1.24	11.6	3.9	87	108	0.0
2019	20	0	19.0	2	0	21	14	23	10	6.63	6.27	1.63	10.9	4.7	147	139	-0.3
2018	4	0	4.0	0	0	5	1	1	3	2.25	5.66	2.00	2.3	6.8	54	136	-0.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs RHP	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	41	34	9	2	5	11	.265	.375	.441	.357	26.8%
vs RHB	50	42	12	3	5	12	.286	.388	.571	.403	24.0%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

Situational hitting

How Sam Howard hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

Pitch sequencing

What Sam Howard throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2019.


Slider	55.9%	214	85.1	2,338	48.1%	39.8%
Four-Seam Fastball	44.1%	169	92.6	2,344	44.4%	21.6%

Sam Howard's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.