Elmer Smith

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 21, 1892 · Perkins Township Erie County, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1914

Final gameSeptember 27, 1925

Seasons10 (1914–1925)

Cleveland Naps 1914; Cleveland Indians 1915–1916; Washington Senators 1916; Cleveland Indians 1917; Washington Senators 1917; Cleveland Indians 1919–1921; Boston Red Sox 1922; New York Yankees 1922–1923; Cincinnati Reds 1925

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified batters

129

51.7

505

46.3

431

44.3

84.6

125

44.3

70.5

59.7

91.9

RBI

85.2

80.5

12.1

61.7

.290

42.3

OBP

.374

62.4

SLG

.508

85.9

OPS

.882

82.6

wRC+

120.4

73.8

OPS+

122.5

75.8

wOBA

.400

80.5

sWAR

2.3

62.4

of 150 qualified 1921 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.9

65.6

OPS+

113.5

69.5

sWAR

12.7

89.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1914	13	56	53	5	17	3	0	0	8	2	11	1	1	.321	.345	.377	.723	109.7	112.8	.350	0.3
1915	144	528	476	37	118	23	12	3	67	36	75	10	11	.248	.301	.366	.666	90.7	96.1	.324	0.5
1916	124	433	381	37	95	25	6	5	67	36	63	7	0	.249	.319	.386	.705	107.2	109.7	.343	1.2
1917	99	309	278	29	68	9	4	3	39	18	32	7	0	.245	.293	.338	.631	88.2	92.8	.308	0.2
1919	114	451	395	60	110	24	6	9	54	41	30	15	0	.278	.354	.438	.792	117.3	117.6	.373	1.9
1920	129	525	456	82	144	37	10	12	103	53	35	5	4	.316	.391	.520	.910	136.9	138.7	.417	3.5
1921	129	505	431	98	125	28	9	16	85	56	46	0	2	.290	.374	.508	.882	120.4	122.5	.400	2.3
1922	94	294	258	44	71	13	6	7	37	28	26	0	3	.275	.348	.453	.802	106.4	108.1	.368	0.9
1923	70	208	183	30	56	6	2	7	35	21	21	3	1	.306	.377	.475	.853	122.8	124.3	.396	1.0
1925	96	320	284	47	77	13	7	8	46	28	20	6	5	.271	.339	.451	.789	102.4	104.0	.355	0.8

Career totals

1,012

3,629

3,195

469

881

181

RBI

541

319

359

.2757

OBP

.3445

SLG

.4369

OPS

.7814

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
1921-09-05	BAL @ CLE Gameday	3	4	3	1	0	2	4	1	10
1919-06-30	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1920-10-10	LAD @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	4	0	8
1920-09-06	BAL @ CLE Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	0	1	0	7
1920-06-29	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	6	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1914-04-14	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-15	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-16	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-17	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-18	CLE @ DET 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.