MLB / Players

Dwight Smith

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb
BornNovember 8, 1963 · Tallahassee, FL, USA
MLB debutMay 1, 1989
Final gameSeptember 29, 1996
Seasons8 (1989–1996)

Chicago Cubs 1989–1993; Baltimore Orioles 1994; California Angels 1994; Atlanta Braves 1995–1996

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
5.6
80.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
198910938134352111196952315194.324.382.493.875149.6141.5.4013.0
199011732229034761506272846116.262.329.376.70589.588.2.3250.2
199190180167163872321113223.228.279.347.62767.371.8.285-0.3
19921092332172860103324134098.276.318.392.70998.597.6.3270.6
199311134231051931751135255186.300.355.494.848127.4126.3.3762.2
199473210196315572830123724.281.324.459.78396.497.8.3420.3
1995103147131163382321133503.252.327.412.73992.892.9.3310.2
1996101172153163150316174213.203.285.294.57953.152.6.269-0.6

Career totals

G
813
PA
1,987
AB
1,807
R
244
H
497
2B
88
3B
20
HR
46
RBI
226
BB
150
SO
334
SB
42
BA
.2750
OBP
.3332
SLG
.4222
OPS
.7554

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1992-09-19STL @ CHC Gameday533011108
1993-08-12CHC @ MIA Gameday522002208
1989-06-05NYM @ CHC Gameday433101317
1993-05-10LAD @ CHC Gameday423101207
1990-05-15CHC @ ATL Gameday533101107

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.