Patrick O'Neal Howell is a former professional baseball

Professional baseball

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 player. He played part of one season in Major League Baseball

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 for the New York Mets

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 in 1992, primarily as a center fielder

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. He also played one season in the Chinese Professional Baseball League

Chinese Professional Baseball League

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 in 1998.

New York Mets

Howell was originally drafted by the Mets in 1987. After playing with their minor league baseball

Minor league baseball

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 system for five seasons, he made his major league debut in 1992. That season, he batted

Batting average

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 .187 with no home run

Home run

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s and 1 run batted in

Run batted in

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 in 79 at bat

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s over 31 games.

Minor leagues and overseas

After the 1992 season, he was traded to the Minnesota Twins

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 for Darren Reed

Darren Reed

Darren A Douglass Reed is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He played with the New York Mets in 1990 and with both the Montreal Expos and Minnesota Twins in 1992. He played a total of 82 Major League games, 26 for the Mets, 42 for the Expos and 14 for the Twins...

. After playing one season in their farm system without returning to the majors, he became a free agent and re-signed with the Mets. After one season with the Mets, he left the affiliated minors, playing in the Mexican League from 1995 to 1997.

In 1998, Howell crossed the Pacific to play for the Brother Elephants

Brother Elephants

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 in Taiwan

Taiwan

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, batting .264 in 24 games. He returned to the United States in 1999 with the Duluth-Superior Dukes in the Northern League. He played the next four seasons with the Nashua Pride

Nashua Pride

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 of the Atlantic League

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before suffering a knee injury in July 2004. He tried to come back the following year, but did not play professionally again.

Overall, as a minor leaguer Howell batted .249 with 20 home runs and 290 runs batted in in 1133 games.