Earl Smith
New York Giants 1919–1922; Boston Braves 1923; New York Giants 1923; Boston Braves 1924; Pittsburgh Pirates 1924–1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1928–1930
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 21 | 40 | 36 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .308 | .361 | .669 | 102.0 | 102.7 | .318 | 0.3 |
| 1920 | 91 | 285 | 262 | 20 | 77 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 2 | .294 | .344 | .340 | .684 | 100.2 | 99.0 | .327 | 1.7 |
| 1921 | 89 | 261 | 229 | 35 | 77 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 51 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 3 | .336 | .409 | .537 | .946 | 151.3 | 150.3 | .426 | 3.2 |
| 1922 | 90 | 275 | 234 | 29 | 65 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 39 | 37 | 12 | 1 | 1 | .278 | .383 | .474 | .858 | 121.6 | 121.1 | .393 | 2.3 |
| 1923 | 96 | 255 | 225 | 24 | 62 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 1 | .276 | .353 | .418 | .771 | 105.5 | 105.1 | .357 | 1.6 |
| 1924 | 72 | 194 | 170 | 13 | 57 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 1 | .335 | .402 | .494 | .896 | 142.5 | 140.8 | .408 | 2.1 |
| 1925 | 109 | 366 | 329 | 34 | 103 | 22 | 3 | 8 | 64 | 31 | 13 | 4 | 1 | .313 | .374 | .471 | .845 | 110.2 | 110.1 | .381 | 2.4 |
| 1926 | 105 | 331 | 292 | 29 | 101 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 46 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .346 | .407 | .438 | .845 | 126.9 | 123.9 | .394 | 3.0 |
| 1927 | 66 | 222 | 189 | 16 | 51 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .270 | .346 | .376 | .722 | 89.5 | 88.4 | .340 | 0.9 |
| 1928 | 56 | 163 | 143 | 11 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .314 | .336 | .650 | 67.8 | 68.7 | .307 | 0.3 |
| 1929 | 57 | 164 | 145 | 9 | 50 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .345 | .417 | .421 | .838 | 112.6 | 108.6 | .389 | 1.2 |
| 1930 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .231 | .000 | .231 | -15.6 | -38.1 | .172 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-05-03 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1924-09-24 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1924-07-26 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1922-08-20 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1925-09-18 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919-04-23 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919-04-24 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919-04-25 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919-04-28 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919-04-30 | SF @ ATL 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.