Frank Smith
Cincinnati Reds 1950–1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954; St. Louis Cardinals 1955; Cincinnati Redlegs 1956
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 38 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .095 | .095 | .190 | -72.5 | -49.9 | .087 | 1.0 |
| 1951 | 50 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.3 |
| 1952 | 53 | 30 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .172 | .241 | .414 | -4.2 | 13.5 | .185 | 1.2 |
| 1953 | 50 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | -36.9 | -20.1 | .139 | -0.3 |
| 1954 | 50 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .357 | .200 | .557 | 67.8 | 48.4 | .303 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 28 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.7 |
| 1956 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 38 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 39 | 39 | 55 | 12 | 90.7 | 3.87 | 1.235 | 5.46 | 4.52 | 108.6 | 107.5 | 1.0 |
| 1951 | 50 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 27 | 22 | 34 | 7 | 76.0 | 3.20 | 1.145 | 4.03 | 3.71 | 92.3 | 125.6 | 1.3 |
| 1952 | 53 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 109 | 51 | 41 | 77 | 13 | 122.3 | 3.75 | 1.226 | 5.66 | 3.72 | 99.4 | 99.6 | 1.2 |
| 1953 | 50 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 51 | 25 | 42 | 15 | 83.7 | 5.49 | 1.363 | 4.52 | 4.95 | 113.7 | 79.3 | -0.3 |
| 1954 | 50 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 24 | 29 | 51 | 15 | 81.0 | 2.67 | 1.099 | 5.67 | 4.75 | 113.2 | 157.3 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 14 | 23 | 17 | 3 | 39.0 | 3.23 | 1.282 | 3.92 | 4.59 | 112.3 | 126.5 | 0.7 |
| 1956 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3.0 | 12.00 | 1.667 | 3.00 | 12.23 | 308.6 | 33.0 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-09-08 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-04-20 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-09-12 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1950-04-23 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1950-09-14 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-06-14 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 1952-05-27 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 7.2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1953-05-17 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1950-04-23 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 5.2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 1954-09-08 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 4.2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 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.