MLB / Players

Dave Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1955 · Richmond, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1980

Final gameJune 8, 1992

Seasons13 (1980–1992)

Houston Astros 1980–1990; Chicago Cubs 1991–1992

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

15.8

91.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1980	57	14	12	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.5	-100.0	.000	2.6
1981	42	8	8	0	2	0	0	4	.250	.250	.250	.500	38.4	45.9	.235	1.3
1982	49	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.6	-100.0	.000	0.2
1983	42	6	5	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.9	-100.0	.000	1.0
1984	53	6	4	1	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	-16.6	-37.2	.151	1.9
1985	64	5	3	1	0	1	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	5.7	-22.5	.188	2.0
1986	54	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.3	-100.0	.000	1.1
1987	50	3	2	0	1	0	1	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167	244.9	222.7	.552	2.2
1988	51	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.8	-100.0	.000	1.0
1989	52	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.5	-100.0	.000	1.1
1990	49	3	2	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	46.7	1.9	.249	1.6
1991	35	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.7	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1992	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1980	57	0	7	5	10	90	22	32	85	1	102.7	1.93	1.188	7.45	2.27	67.6	173.9	2.6
1981	42	0	5	3	8	54	23	23	52	2	75.0	2.76	1.027	6.24	2.63	78.6	121.2	1.3
1982	49	1	5	4	11	69	27	31	28	4	63.3	3.84	1.579	3.98	4.15	122.8	88.1	0.2
1983	42	0	3	1	6	72	25	36	41	2	72.7	3.10	1.486	5.08	3.39	98.7	110.9	1.0
1984	53	0	5	4	5	60	19	20	45	5	77.3	2.21	1.034	5.24	3.28	97.2	152.9	1.9
1985	64	0	9	5	27	69	20	17	40	3	79.3	2.27	1.084	4.54	2.78	79.8	153.6	2.0
1986	54	0	4	7	33	39	17	22	46	5	56.0	2.73	1.089	7.39	3.50	96.9	132.1	1.1
1987	50	0	2	3	24	39	11	21	73	0	60.0	1.65	1.000	10.95	1.53	39.1	237.7	2.2
1988	51	0	4	5	27	60	17	19	38	1	57.3	2.67	1.378	5.97	2.66	79.6	124.9	1.0
1989	52	0	3	4	25	49	17	19	31	1	58.0	2.64	1.172	4.81	2.85	83.9	128.8	1.1
1990	49	0	6	6	23	45	16	20	50	4	60.3	2.39	1.077	7.46	3.01	81.0	155.6	1.6
1991	35	0	0	6	17	39	22	19	16	6	33.0	6.00	1.758	4.36	6.00	155.5	64.4	-0.5
1992	11	0	0	0	0	15	4	4	3	0	14.3	2.51	1.326	1.88	3.19	88.3	144.0	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

609

RBI

.0682

OBP

.1458

SLG

.0682

OPS

.2140

Pitching

G (P)

609

232nd-most career G (P)

216

51st-most career SV

SHO

809

SO (P)

548

BB allowed

283

ERA

2.669

WHIP

1.2146

K/9

6.09

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	RBI	BB	TB
1981-08-16	HOU @ SD Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1
1981-09-24	ATL @ HOU Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1
1987-05-31	HOU @ STL Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1
1985-08-27	CHC @ HOU Gameday	0	1	0	1	1	0
1980-04-11	LAD @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1980-08-15	HOU @ SD Gameday	5.0	4	0	0	3	8
1980-08-29	HOU @ CHC Gameday	3.0	4	1	1	1	5
1987-06-06	SF @ HOU Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	2	5
1980-07-27	HOU @ WSH Gameday	4.0	4	1	0	2	4
1984-09-01	HOU @ STL Gameday	4.0	2	0	0	0	4

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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.