Al Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 189 lb

BornFebruary 7, 1928 · Kirkwood, MO, USA

MLB debutJuly 10, 1953

Final gameOctober 4, 1964

Seasons15 (1946–1964)

Cleveland Buckeyes 1946–1948; Cleveland Indians 1953–1957; Chicago White Sox 1958–1962; Baltimore Orioles 1963; Boston Red Sox 1964; Cleveland Indians 1964

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

142

23.3

575

26.2

511

29.1

18.4

149

41.7

39.8

83.5

47.6

RBI

63.1

61.2

69.9

29.1

48.5

.292

OBP

.363

71.8

SLG

.462

64.1

OPS

.825

69.9

wRC+

122.6

72.8

OPS+

123.0

72.8

wOBA

.366

69.9

sWAR

3.5

72.8

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.9

74.6

OPS+

115.2

72.1

sWAR

29.2

96.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1946	4	13	12	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.333	.385	.333	.718	112.7	112.1	.356	0.1
1947	19	76	69	10	22	3	4	3	13	6	1	1	0	.319	.382	.609	.990	147.2	164.5	.450	0.8
1948	16	69	61	12	16	2	1	1	12	6	0	1	0	.262	.338	.377	.715	92.5	91.3	.339	0.1
1953	47	173	150	28	36	9	0	3	14	20	25	2	0	.240	.341	.360	.701	95.8	93.9	.333	0.3
1954	131	583	481	101	135	29	6	11	50	88	65	2	9	.281	.398	.435	.832	136.5	130.2	.391	4.0
1955	154	725	607	123	186	27	4	22	77	93	77	11	6	.306	.407	.473	.880	141.5	136.8	.409	5.7
1956	141	626	526	87	144	26	5	16	71	84	72	6	3	.274	.378	.433	.812	114.8	113.9	.373	2.7
1957	135	605	507	78	125	23	5	11	49	79	70	12	6	.247	.348	.377	.725	103.5	100.0	.339	2.4
1958	139	541	480	61	121	23	5	12	58	48	77	3	3	.252	.323	.396	.719	100.9	100.9	.327	1.1
1959	129	529	472	65	112	16	4	17	55	46	74	7	5	.237	.311	.396	.707	95.2	95.9	.321	0.8
1960	142	595	536	80	169	31	3	12	72	50	65	8	3	.315	.374	.451	.826	126.8	125.1	.374	3.2
1961	147	602	532	88	148	29	4	28	93	56	67	4	4	.278	.348	.506	.854	126.8	128.5	.376	3.8
1962	142	575	511	62	149	23	8	16	82	57	60	3	3	.292	.363	.462	.825	122.6	123.0	.366	3.5
1963	120	406	368	45	100	17	1	10	39	32	74	9	0	.272	.335	.405	.740	114.1	111.6	.335	1.5
1964	90	212	187	25	33	5	1	6	16	21	42	0	1	.176	.267	.310	.577	57.7	60.0	.267	-0.7

Career totals

1,556

6,330

5,499

866

1,500

263

168

RBI

701

687

396th-most career BB

769

.2728

OBP

.3578

SLG

.4308

OPS

.7886

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1955-05-08	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	4	1	11
1960-04-26	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	2	0	9
1955-06-19	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	2	0	9
1961-08-26	CLE @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	6	0	9
1962-05-20	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-05-05	BBB @ CLB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-05	BBB @ CLB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-06	BBB @ CLB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-09	CLB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-10	CLB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

2× 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.