MLB / Players

Bob Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb
BornFebruary 1, 1930 · Woodsville, NH, USA
MLB debutApril 29, 1955
Final gameSeptember 23, 1959
Seasons4 (1955–1959)

Boston Red Sox 1955; Pittsburgh Pirates 1957; St. Louis Cardinals 1957; Pittsburgh Pirates 1958; Detroit Tigers 1959; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959

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
1.0
63.6

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
195510000000000000.1
19572616150100000900.067.067.067.133-84.1-63.3.0600.8
19583512110100010500.091.083.091.174-76.9-53.0.0760.1
195929330000000200.000.000.000.000-125.6-100.0.000-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19551000000101101.70.001.2005.403.0371.30.1
19572642412060243146264.73.341.4076.403.0280.1113.20.8
19583542210061303124661.04.431.5083.544.62120.486.70.1
19592900300052212022639.34.811.8315.034.97126.281.5-0.1

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
91
PA
31
AB
29
R
0
H
2
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
0
SO
16
SB
0
BA
.0690
OBP
.0667
SLG
.0690
OPS
.1357

Pitching

G (P)
91
GS
8
W
4
L
9
SV
2
CG
2
SHO
0
IP
167
SO (P)
93
BB allowed
83
ERA
4.050
WHIP
1.5420
K/9
5.02

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1958-05-04PIT @ SF Gameday201000101
1957-09-18PIT @ CIN Gameday401000001
1955-04-29BOS @ CWS Gameday000000000
1957-04-18CHC @ STL Gameday000000000
1957-04-22CIN @ STL Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1957-09-08PHI @ PIT Gameday9.0822160
1957-09-13PIT @ CHC Gameday8.0410460
1957-09-18PIT @ CIN Gameday8.1722450
1957-05-25PIT @ PHI Gameday3.0422241
1958-04-19CIN @ PIT Gameday6.1652530

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.