Frank Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 194 lb

BornOctober 28, 1879 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1904

Final gameSeptember 13, 1915

Seasons11 (1904–1915)

Chicago White Sox 1904–1909; Boston Red Sox 1910; Chicago White Sox 1910; Boston Red Sox 1911; Cincinnati Reds 1911–1912; Baltimore Terrapins 1914–1915; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1915

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified pitchers

25.2

26.9

75.6

61.3

SHO

16.8

180

67.2

72.3

77.3

34.5

9.2

174.7

20.2

ERA

2.99

40.3

WHIP

1.300

35.3

K/9

4.28

54.6

FIP

3.16

26.1

FIP-

98.7

48.7

ERA+

107.2

57.1

sWAR

2.3

50.4

of 120 qualified 1914 pitchers (min 160 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.8

37.7

sWAR

26.7

95.8

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
1904	26	80	72	8	18	5	0	0	6	4	21	0	.250	.299	.319	.618	99.5	99.9	.296	3.5
1905	41	118	106	11	24	6	0	1	11	7	30	0	.226	.299	.311	.610	100.7	99.6	.300	5.0
1906	20	47	41	6	12	2	2	0	6	3	6	0	.293	.356	.439	.795	150.4	152.9	.379	0.5
1907	42	116	92	11	18	3	0	0	11	16	28	2	.196	.327	.228	.556	95.6	82.4	.296	3.3
1908	43	118	106	15	20	7	0	0	10	5	36	1	.189	.232	.255	.487	58.7	61.0	.240	4.3
1909	53	144	127	11	22	6	3	0	20	10	31	0	.173	.245	.268	.512	65.7	66.4	.256	6.8
1910	28	63	52	5	9	3	0	0	5	6	17	0	.173	.283	.231	.514	71.2	64.1	.269	1.5
1911	36	66	56	3	12	2	2	0	6	5	14	0	.214	.279	.321	.600	69.4	67.8	.289	0.3
1912	7	8	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	7.2	-27.2	.192	-0.6
1914	41	65	59	4	12	4	1	0	3	3	21	0	.203	.242	.305	.547	48.8	54.9	.259	2.3
1915	32	54	49	5	9	3	1	1	7	3	12	0	.184	.231	.347	.578	60.6	67.2	.272	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1904	26	23	16	9	0	22	4	157	47	58	107	0	203.3	2.08	1.057	4.74	2.49	100.4	119.0	3.5
1905	39	31	19	13	0	27	4	215	69	107	171	0	291.7	2.13	1.104	5.28	2.47	99.1	117.0	5.0
1906	20	13	5	5	1	8	1	124	46	37	53	3	122.0	3.39	1.320	3.91	2.96	114.4	76.3	0.5
1907	41	37	23	10	0	29	3	280	85	111	139	3	310.0	2.47	1.261	4.04	2.66	110.7	97.6	3.3
1908	41	35	16	17	1	24	3	213	67	73	129	2	297.7	2.03	.961	3.90	2.23	96.7	113.7	4.3
1909	51	40	25	17	1	37	7	278	73	70	177	1	365.0	1.80	.953	4.36	1.98	84.9	129.4	6.8
1910	23	18	5	11	0	11	3	113	44	51	58	1	156.7	2.53	1.047	3.33	2.62	108.3	95.8	1.5
1911	35	19	10	14	1	10	0	204	82	58	68	1	178.7	4.13	1.466	3.43	2.96	91.0	78.8	0.3
1912	7	3	1	1	0	1	0	34	16	15	5	1	22.7	6.35	2.162	1.99	4.86	148.8	51.5	-0.6
1914	39	22	10	8	2	9	1	180	58	47	83	8	174.7	2.99	1.300	4.28	3.16	98.7	107.2	2.3
1915	32	14	9	6	0	6	1	177	68	49	61	7	151.7	4.04	1.490	3.62	3.26	107.5	75.1	-0.2

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

369

879

766

156

RBI

217

.2037

OBP

.2764

SLG

.2885

OPS

.5649

Pitching

G (P)

354

255

139

317th-most career W

111

436th-most career L

184

164th-most career CG

SHO

148th-most career SHO

2,274

318th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,051

BB allowed

676

424th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.592

57th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1658

99th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.16

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	HR	RBI	TB
1905-04-29	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	1	2	1	1	0	6
1906-09-06	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	0	4
1908-04-28	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	0	4
1910-04-29	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3
1907-05-03	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1909-09-05	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	11	6	0	12
1905-10-02	CWS @ MIN Gameday	8.0	7	3	5	11
1908-09-23	ATH @ CWS Gameday	10.0	6	2	1	9
1904-07-20	CWS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	9
1905-08-31	MIN @ CWS Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	9

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.