MLB / Players

Eddie Smith

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 174 lb
BornDecember 14, 1913 · Mansfield, NJ, USA
MLB debutSeptember 20, 1936
Final gameSeptember 20, 1947
Seasons10 (1936–1947)

Philadelphia Athletics 1936–1938; Chicago White Sox 1939; Philadelphia Athletics 1939; Chicago White Sox 1940–1943; Chicago White Sox 1946; Boston Red Sox 1947; Chicago White Sox 1947

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

G
25
35.3
GS
25
55.9
W
11
56.9
L
11
31.4
SV
0
0
CG
14
74.5
SHO
2
50
H
197
25.5
ER
77
17.6
BB
76
16.7
SO
66
57.8
HR
2
71.6
IP
187.7
55.9
ERA
3.69
30.4
WHIP
1.455
20.6
K/9
3.17
38.2
FIP
3.08
72.5
FIP-
93.7
60.8
ERA+
89.0
13.7
sWAR
0.7
20.6

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
106.3
62.5
sWAR
20.0
93.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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
19362880100000200.125.125.125.250-47.8-38.2.1160.7
1937407773417600321110.233.253.315.56834.542.0.2583.5
193843474241220053800.286.333.333.66767.267.5.3130.1
193932665256100391500.115.246.135.3819.10.2.2083.2
1940328369715310461500.217.280.290.57047.148.7.2674.8
19413410088619400381900.216.281.261.54344.746.1.2625.4
194229797329010031510.123.158.151.309-23.1-11.7.1520.8
194325756941110182900.159.183.217.4000.917.2.1910.7
19462448452810033900.178.229.200.42912.722.4.2112.4
19472313122200001200.167.231.167.3972.110.4.203-1.7

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1936221102022487319.01.891.5793.326.07120.3266.20.7
19373823417514117886907918196.73.941.3633.624.95106.6117.93.5
193843731040015186767813130.75.921.7375.375.05105.480.90.1
19393222101107116876927011180.33.791.4423.494.75103.5121.03.2
194032281490120179749511916207.33.211.3225.174.2096.7135.04.8
19413433131712112439311411113263.33.181.3563.793.9296.8127.35.4
19422928720118222395867817215.03.981.4373.274.11115.889.20.8
19432525111101421977776662187.73.691.4553.173.0893.789.00.7
194624218111311354660599145.32.851.3423.653.76110.7119.32.4
19472382600058414227450.37.331.9874.834.89131.250.5-1.7

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

G
284
PA
596
AB
531
R
36
H
100
2B
18
3B
2
HR
1
RBI
29
BB
37
SO
105
SB
2
BA
.1883
OBP
.2412
SLG
.2354
OPS
.4766

Pitching

G (P)
282
GS
197
W
73
L
113
408th-most career L
SV
12
CG
91
470th-most career CG
SHO
8
IP
1,596
SO (P)
694
BB allowed
739
321st-most career BB allowed
ERA
3.824
WHIP
1.4370
K/9
3.91

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
1943-09-26CWS @ MIN Gameday523001206
1940-05-22ATH @ CWS Gameday412010104
1943-09-30CWS @ NYY Gameday302100213
1937-07-09BOS @ ATH Gameday202100103
1937-08-10ATH @ MIN Gameday412100103

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1940-08-09DET @ CWS Gameday9.05203110
1940-05-22ATH @ CWS Gameday9.0711880
1943-08-27CLE @ CWS Gameday9.01266380
1940-04-25CWS @ CLE Gameday7.0621381
1943-06-18CLE @ CWS Gameday14.01155870

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

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.