Bob Smith
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1957 | 26 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .067 | .067 | .133 | -84.1 | -63.3 | .060 | 0.8 |
| 1958 | 35 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .083 | .091 | .174 | -76.9 | -53.0 | .076 | 0.1 |
| 1959 | 29 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.7 | 0.00 | 1.200 | 5.40 | 3.03 | 71.3 | — | 0.1 |
| 1957 | 26 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 24 | 31 | 46 | 2 | 64.7 | 3.34 | 1.407 | 6.40 | 3.02 | 80.1 | 113.2 | 0.8 |
| 1958 | 35 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 30 | 31 | 24 | 6 | 61.0 | 4.43 | 1.508 | 3.54 | 4.62 | 120.4 | 86.7 | 0.1 |
| 1959 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 39.3 | 4.81 | 1.831 | 5.03 | 4.97 | 126.2 | 81.5 | -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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-05-04 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1957-09-18 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1955-04-29 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-04-18 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-04-22 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-09-08 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1957-09-13 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1957-09-18 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 8.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1957-05-25 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 3.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 1958-04-19 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 6.1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 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.