Elmer Smith

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 178 lb

BornMarch 23, 1868 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1886

Final gameJune 15, 1901

Seasons14 (1886–1901)

Cincinnati Red Stockings 1886–1889; Pittsburgh Pirates 1892–1897; Cincinnati Reds 1898–1900; New York Giants 1900; Boston Beaneaters 1901; Pittsburgh Pirates 1901

Percentile snapshot

1900 season — qualified batters

114

23.5

478

25.5

423

19.6

21.6

112

17.6

29.4

74.5

RBI

35.3

66.7

78.4

35.3

.265

19.6

OBP

.337

35.3

SLG

.369

37.3

OPS

.706

31.4

wRC+

95.4

35.3

OPS+

94.9

31.4

wOBA

.340

35.3

sWAR

0.8

31.4

of 52 qualified 1900 batters (min 446 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1889 season — qualified pitchers

24.6

19.3

17.5

73.7

12.3

SHO

253

66.7

110

64.9

101

56.1

104

38.6

31.6

203.0

21.1

ERA

4.88

WHIP

1.744

3.5

K/9

4.61

FIP

4.29

FIP-

111.7

ERA+

78.8

sWAR

0.6

24.6

of 58 qualified 1889 pitchers (min 141 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.9

81.7

OPS+

125.2

85.9

ERA+

110.6

73.1

sWAR

44.4

98.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1886	9	37	28	6	8	1	1	0	2	9	0	0	.286	.459	.393	.852	155.9	168.8	.424	0.9
1887	52	198	186	26	47	10	6	0	23	11	16	5	.253	.298	.371	.669	86.7	84.8	.314	10.2
1888	40	149	129	15	29	4	1	0	9	20	22	2	.225	.329	.271	.600	100.3	92.9	.303	5.1
1889	29	92	83	12	23	3	1	2	17	7	18	1	.277	.348	.410	.757	110.0	115.0	.361	0.6
1892	138	594	511	86	140	16	14	4	63	82	43	22	.274	.375	.384	.759	125.6	129.2	.373	4.2
1893	128	600	518	121	179	26	23	7	103	77	23	26	.346	.435	.525	.960	141.7	154.4	.452	4.6
1894	126	573	490	128	175	33	19	6	74	68	12	34	.357	.440	.539	.979	127.6	134.8	.448	3.5
1895	125	548	484	89	146	15	12	1	81	55	25	34	.302	.380	.388	.768	100.3	98.2	.369	1.3
1896	122	572	484	121	175	21	14	6	94	74	18	33	.362	.454	.500	.954	144.2	151.2	.451	4.7
1897	123	550	467	99	145	19	17	6	54	70	32	25	.310	.408	.463	.871	125.7	129.3	.413	3.1
1898	123	563	486	79	166	21	10	1	66	69	17	20	.342	.425	.432	.858	142.4	145.4	.418	4.2
1899	88	398	343	65	101	13	6	1	24	47	12	10	.294	.381	.376	.757	109.5	107.7	.370	1.6
1900	114	478	423	61	112	13	11	3	52	42	12	19	.265	.337	.369	.706	95.4	94.9	.340	0.8
1901	20	70	61	5	10	2	1	0	3	8	8	2	.164	.261	.230	.490	50.7	41.0	.249	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1886	9	9	4	4	8	0	57	30	44	40	1	72.7	3.72	1.390	4.95	4.14	120.2	92.7	0.9
1887	52	52	34	17	49	3	400	146	126	176	5	447.3	2.94	1.176	3.54	3.71	86.5	146.1	10.2
1888	40	40	22	17	37	5	309	106	89	154	1	348.3	2.74	1.143	3.98	2.79	91.2	111.7	5.1
1889	29	22	9	12	16	0	253	110	101	104	11	203.0	4.88	1.744	4.61	4.29	111.7	78.8	0.6
1892	17	13	6	7	12	1	140	54	58	51	2	134.0	3.63	1.478	3.43	3.19	97.1	90.6	4.2
1894	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	1	0	0	4.0	4.50	1.750	0.00	5.31	99.8	118.4	3.5
1898	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	0	0	1.0	18.00	5.000	0.00	11.77	326.6	20.0	4.2

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

1,237

5,422

4,693

913

463rd-most career R

1,456

197

136

71st-most career 3B

RBI

665

639

471st-most career BB

258

233

278th-most career SB

.3102

119th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3977

77th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4338

OPS

.8315

275th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

149

136

122

323rd-most career CG

SHO

1,210

SO (P)

525

BB allowed

422

ERA

3.346

341st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3129

K/9

3.90

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	RBI	BB	TB
1901-06-10	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1	1	3
1901-06-01	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
1901-06-03	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
1901-05-24	PIT @ ATL Gameday	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
1901-05-30	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	STL @ PIT 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.