Ford Smith
Kansas City Monarchs 1941; Kansas City Monarchs 1946–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 10 | 22 | 22 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .409 | .409 | .545 | .955 | 169.1 | 182.3 | .447 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 25 | 79 | 71 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .183 | .256 | .254 | .510 | 57.0 | 50.5 | .257 | 0.4 |
| 1947 | 15 | 44 | 38 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .333 | .342 | .675 | 84.6 | 81.9 | .328 | 2.4 |
| 1948 | 13 | 27 | 26 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .222 | .308 | .530 | 42.6 | 40.9 | .245 | 1.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 33.0 | 2.18 | 1.030 | 4.64 | 3.10 | 83.4 | 170.1 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 30.3 | 2.97 | 1.088 | 5.64 | 3.69 | 90.0 | 138.1 | 0.4 |
| 1947 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 47 | 15 | 27 | 32 | 2 | 63.0 | 2.14 | 1.175 | 4.57 | 4.78 | 97.1 | 229.9 | 2.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 49 | 15 | 13 | 41 | 0 | 55.7 | 2.43 | 1.114 | 6.63 | 3.56 | 73.6 | 199.6 | 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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-07-25 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1941-07-19 | KCM @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1946-05-20 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-07-14 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1946-08-18 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-07-13 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1948-05-16 | CLB @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 1948-05-21 | CLB @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1948-05-26 | KCM @ IC Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1946-07-01 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.