Cleo Smith
Baltimore Black Sox 1922–1923; Harrisburg Giants 1924; New York Lincoln Giants 1924; Baltimore Black Sox 1926; Newark Stars 1926; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1927; Baltimore Black Sox 1928; Philadelphia Tigers 1928
Percentile snapshot
1928 season — qualified batters
of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 21 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 8 | 30 | 27 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .185 | .241 | .296 | .538 | 56.1 | 52.4 | .255 | -0.1 |
| 1923 | 36 | 158 | 145 | 29 | 42 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .290 | .322 | .421 | .743 | 103.7 | 107.2 | .342 | 0.7 |
| 1924 | 45 | 181 | 156 | 24 | 42 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 0 | .269 | .329 | .359 | .688 | 88.8 | 87.0 | .326 | 0.4 |
| 1926 | 11 | 44 | 34 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .235 | .409 | .382 | .791 | 122.2 | 116.8 | .391 | 0.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | 25 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .278 | .435 | .333 | .768 | 114.7 | 103.5 | .386 | 0.1 |
| 1928 | 9 | 38 | 37 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .324 | .324 | .378 | .703 | 79.9 | 80.8 | .320 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-05-28 | HIL @ BBS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1923-05-06 | BG @ BBS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1923-06-04 | CSE @ BBS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-07-22 | CSE @ BBS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1923-07-08 | BBS @ NYL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-04-30 | CSE @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-06 | BG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-06 | BG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-07 | BG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-13 | BRG @ BBS 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.