Bob Smith
Birmingham Black Barons 1930; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Birmingham Black Barons 1932; Nashville Elite Giants 1932–1933; Chicago American Giants 1936; Memphis Red Sox 1937; Birmingham Black Barons 1938; Memphis Red Sox 1938; St. Louis Stars 1939; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940–1941; Memphis Red Sox 1942–1943; Chicago American Giants 1944
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 29 | 76 | 67 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .239 | .292 | .269 | .560 | 56.9 | 50.1 | .267 | 0.0 |
| 1931 | 7 | 23 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .286 | .263 | .549 | 60.1 | 53.3 | .274 | 0.0 |
| 1932 | 9 | 33 | 29 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .276 | .364 | .379 | .743 | 126.4 | 129.5 | .361 | 0.3 |
| 1933 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 167.7 | 174.5 | .457 | 0.0 |
| 1936 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -7.2 | -30.7 | .117 | -0.1 |
| 1937 | 13 | 44 | 40 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .200 | .256 | .225 | .481 | 47.0 | 33.9 | .234 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | 39 | 32 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .368 | .406 | .775 | 121.3 | 122.8 | .370 | 0.3 |
| 1939 | 6 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .333 | .077 | .410 | 61.9 | 22.7 | .264 | 0.0 |
| 1940 | 15 | 50 | 47 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .240 | .213 | .453 | 44.3 | 36.6 | .230 | -0.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | 40 | 33 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .121 | .237 | .121 | .358 | 27.3 | 7.3 | .202 | -0.1 |
| 1942 | 9 | 31 | 27 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .267 | .185 | .452 | 48.4 | 35.9 | .232 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 10 | 31 | 29 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .379 | .419 | .379 | .799 | 143.2 | 145.7 | .388 | 0.3 |
| 1944 | 12 | 37 | 32 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .270 | .156 | .427 | 48.2 | 33.1 | .234 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 4.50 | 1.000 | 0.00 | 3.99 | 93.5 | 94.7 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-07-08 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1944-08-14 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-05-12 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-07-21 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-06-13 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-04-28 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-30 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-01 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-01 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.