Bob Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornApril 22, 1895 · Rogersville, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1923

Final gameAugust 6, 1937

Seasons15 (1923–1937)

Boston Braves 1923–1930; Chicago Cubs 1931–1932; Boston Braves 1933; Cincinnati Reds 1933; Boston Braves 1934–1935; Boston Bees 1936–1937

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified pitchers

91.6

41.1

2.1

92.6

33.7

SHO

63.2

232

26.3

35.8

46.3

28.4

203.3

65.3

ERA

3.94

51.6

WHIP

1.441

38.9

K/9

2.57

14.7

FIP

4.23

56.8

FIP-

112.1

12.6

ERA+

95.7

33.7

sWAR

1.9

48.4

of 96 qualified 1935 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.0

38.6

sWAR

23.3

94.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1923	115	406	375	30	94	16	3	0	40	17	35	4	9	.251	.285	.309	.594	56.2	58.5	.278	-0.4
1924	106	368	347	32	79	12	3	2	38	15	26	5	2	.228	.260	.297	.556	46.5	51.1	.258	-0.8
1925	58	181	174	17	49	9	4	0	23	5	6	2	2	.282	.302	.379	.681	75.2	78.6	.307	0.6
1926	40	87	84	10	25	6	2	0	13	2	4	0	0	.298	.314	.417	.731	97.4	102.0	.333	2.2
1927	54	112	109	10	27	3	1	1	10	2	4	0	0	.248	.261	.321	.582	53.7	59.1	.268	2.9
1928	39	99	92	11	23	2	0	1	8	1	6	2	0	.250	.258	.304	.562	40.2	48.3	.257	2.7
1929	39	104	99	12	17	4	2	1	8	2	8	1	0	.172	.188	.283	.471	7.8	16.3	.209	2.1
1930	39	84	81	7	19	2	0	0	4	0	5	0	0	.235	.235	.259	.494	16.9	21.1	.221	3.3
1931	36	97	87	7	19	2	0	0	4	5	2	0	0	.218	.261	.241	.502	30.0	35.2	.240	4.4
1932	36	42	42	5	10	4	1	0	4	0	2	1	0	.238	.238	.381	.619	57.3	64.9	.269	0.3
1933	37	47	45	3	9	1	1	0	3	1	1	1	0	.200	.217	.267	.484	30.9	40.3	.223	2.3
1934	42	38	36	5	9	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.278	.528	39.9	46.0	.239	0.1
1935	47	70	63	3	17	0	0	0	4	1	5	0	0	.270	.281	.270	.551	51.0	53.7	.255	1.9
1936	35	47	45	1	10	2	0	0	4	0	4	0	0	.222	.222	.267	.489	26.7	34.7	.223	1.4
1937	19	11	10	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.200	.273	.200	.473	39.9	36.3	.236	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	13	10	5	3	0	6	0	110	46	36	19	6	92.7	4.47	1.576	1.85	4.70	117.9	89.3	0.6
1926	33	23	10	13	1	14	4	199	84	75	44	10	201.3	3.75	1.361	1.97	4.23	118.5	95.1	2.2
1927	41	32	10	18	3	16	1	297	109	75	81	9	260.7	3.76	1.427	2.80	3.70	99.5	99.0	2.9
1928	38	25	13	17	2	14	0	274	105	74	59	11	244.3	3.87	1.424	2.17	3.81	98.1	100.3	2.7
1929	34	29	11	17	3	19	1	256	120	71	65	20	231.0	4.68	1.416	2.53	4.81	104.3	98.6	2.1
1930	38	24	10	14	5	14	2	247	104	85	84	25	219.7	4.26	1.511	3.44	5.47	113.3	113.2	3.3
1931	36	29	15	12	2	18	2	239	86	62	63	10	240.3	3.22	1.252	2.36	3.78	96.7	121.2	4.4
1932	34	11	4	3	2	4	1	148	61	36	35	4	119.0	4.61	1.546	2.65	3.74	98.4	82.4	0.3
1933	30	10	8	7	1	7	1	143	39	18	34	6	132.3	2.65	1.217	2.31	3.05	95.3	120.9	2.3
1934	39	5	6	9	5	3	0	133	63	36	26	9	121.7	4.66	1.389	1.92	4.51	118.5	81.6	0.1
1935	46	20	8	18	5	8	2	232	89	61	58	13	203.3	3.94	1.441	2.57	4.23	112.1	95.7	1.9
1936	35	11	6	7	8	5	2	142	57	35	36	3	136.0	3.77	1.301	2.38	3.59	94.5	100.8	1.4
1937	18	0	0	1	3	0	0	52	20	6	14	6	44.0	4.09	1.318	2.86	4.63	129.8	87.3	0.2

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

742

1,793

1,689

154

409

RBI

166

110

.2422

OBP

.2652

SLG

.3091

OPS

.5743

Pitching

G (P)

435

229

106

139

217th-most career L

437th-most career SV

128

299th-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

2,246

330th-most career IP

SO (P)

618

BB allowed

670

432nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.938

WHIP

1.3987

K/9

2.48

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	TB
1929-05-18	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	1	7
1924-06-07	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	6
1923-06-25	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	2	6
1924-08-09	CHC @ ATL Gameday	3	0	3	2	0	0	1	5
1925-08-01	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-07-26	CHC @ ATL Gameday	11.0	11	3	3	3	7	0
1930-07-30	ATL @ SF Gameday	8.0	12	5	5	2	7	1
1927-05-27	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	6	0
1930-05-17	ATL @ SF Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	1	6	3
1932-07-08	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	11	4	4	3	6	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.