Earl Smith
Chicago Cubs 1916; St. Louis Browns 1917–1921; Washington Senators 1921–1922
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 14 | 30 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .259 | .310 | .370 | .681 | 106.6 | 107.5 | .323 | 0.1 |
| 1917 | 52 | 222 | 199 | 31 | 56 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 21 | 5 | 0 | .281 | .332 | .387 | .719 | 118.0 | 121.1 | .349 | 1.1 |
| 1918 | 89 | 319 | 286 | 28 | 77 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 32 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 0 | .269 | .303 | .339 | .642 | 89.5 | 95.2 | .314 | 0.4 |
| 1919 | 88 | 285 | 252 | 21 | 63 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 36 | 18 | 27 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .300 | .349 | .649 | 74.4 | 78.6 | .309 | -0.3 |
| 1920 | 103 | 377 | 353 | 45 | 108 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 55 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 4 | .306 | .336 | .436 | .772 | 96.4 | 100.2 | .356 | 1.1 |
| 1921 | 84 | 279 | 258 | 27 | 65 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 23 | 1 | 0 | .252 | .296 | .364 | .660 | 65.0 | 67.9 | .305 | -0.5 |
| 1922 | 65 | 221 | 205 | 22 | 53 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 4 | .259 | .293 | .351 | .644 | 67.1 | 71.2 | .298 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-05-28 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1917-08-26 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1917-09-03 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 1920-10-01 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1920-07-08 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-04-12 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-13 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-14 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-15 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-16 | CHC @ STL 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.