Billy Smith
California Angels 1975–1976; Baltimore Orioles 1977–1979; San Francisco Giants 1981
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 59 | 159 | 143 | 10 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 12 | 27 | 1 | 3 | .203 | .263 | .252 | .515 | 51.4 | 50.8 | .249 | -0.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | .375 | .750 | 127.9 | 126.7 | .353 | 0.1 |
| 1977 | 109 | 411 | 367 | 44 | 79 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 33 | 71 | 3 | 2 | .215 | .281 | .300 | .581 | 64.1 | 64.0 | .268 | -0.2 |
| 1978 | 85 | 283 | 250 | 29 | 65 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 27 | 40 | 3 | 0 | .260 | .333 | .384 | .717 | 108.1 | 108.6 | .329 | 1.4 |
| 1979 | 68 | 214 | 189 | 18 | 47 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 33 | 15 | 33 | 1 | 0 | .249 | .309 | .434 | .743 | 101.7 | 103.0 | .331 | 0.9 |
| 1981 | 36 | 71 | 61 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .180 | .282 | .230 | .511 | 53.5 | 48.8 | .259 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-09-28 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 1978-05-26 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1977-07-27 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1977-06-06 | BAL @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1977-04-17 | BAL @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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.