MLB / Players

Billy Smith

HandednessThrows Right
Listed at5 ft 8 in · 152 lb
Born1861 · New Orleans, LA, USA
MLB debutJuly 6, 1886
Final gameSeptember 13, 1886
Seasons1 (1886–1886)

Detroit Wolverines 1886

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
0.1
47.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
188610393827200411400.184.205.237.44247.233.8.2050.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1886995409081353036077.04.091.4424.213.31100.880.40.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

G
10
PA
39
AB
38
R
2
H
7
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
4
BB
1
SO
14
SB
0
BA
.1842
OBP
.2051
SLG
.2368
OPS
.4419

Pitching

G (P)
9
GS
9
W
5
L
4
SV
0
CG
9
SHO
0
IP
77
SO (P)
36
BB allowed
30
ERA
4.091
WHIP
1.4416
K/9
4.21

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.