Bobby Smith
St. Louis Cardinals 1957–1959; Philadelphia Phillies 1960–1961; Chicago Cubs 1962; New York Mets 1962; St. Louis Cardinals 1962; California Angels 1965
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 93 | 201 | 185 | 24 | 39 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 35 | 1 | 1 | .211 | .260 | .308 | .568 | 42.8 | 51.2 | .251 | -0.7 |
| 1958 | 28 | 92 | 88 | 8 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .284 | .304 | .386 | .691 | 76.2 | 79.0 | .308 | 0.1 |
| 1959 | 43 | 61 | 60 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .230 | .317 | .546 | 32.2 | 40.4 | .243 | -0.4 |
| 1960 | 98 | 230 | 217 | 24 | 62 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 27 | 10 | 28 | 2 | 3 | .286 | .317 | .382 | .700 | 90.1 | 90.4 | .316 | 0.1 |
| 1961 | 79 | 192 | 174 | 16 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 32 | 0 | 1 | .253 | .313 | .328 | .640 | 70.5 | 71.4 | .291 | -0.3 |
| 1962 | 112 | 196 | 181 | 17 | 38 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 3 | .210 | .258 | .287 | .545 | 38.1 | 41.9 | .253 | -1.2 |
| 1965 | 23 | 62 | 57 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 1 | .228 | .262 | .281 | .543 | 55.5 | 58.7 | .252 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-07-07 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1958-09-20 | SF @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1960-06-30 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1960-08-19 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1957-04-16 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-05-21 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-22 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-29 | ATL @ CHC 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.