MLB / Players

Fred Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 29, 1891 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1913

Final gameJuly 4, 1917

Seasons4 (1913–1917)

Boston Braves 1913; Buffalo Buffeds 1914; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1915; Buffalo Blues 1915; St. Louis Cardinals 1917

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

145

557

46.7

499

51.5

33.3

122

44.8

65.5

83.6

RBI

84.8

46.7

9.1

68.5

52.1

.244

18.8

OBP

.303

17.6

SLG

.351

39.4

OPS

.654

26.7

wRC+

89.4

OPS+

91.8

25.5

wOBA

.314

sWAR

1.9

49.7

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.7

68.2

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
1913	92	326	285	35	65	9	3	0	27	29	55	7	.228	.302	.281	.582	65.6	64.6	.286	-0.1
1914	145	538	473	48	104	12	10	2	45	49	78	24	.220	.297	.300	.597	70.5	70.0	.292	0.2
1915	145	557	499	49	122	18	10	5	69	38	64	23	.244	.303	.351	.654	89.4	91.8	.314	1.9
1917	56	186	165	11	30	0	2	1	17	17	22	4	.182	.262	.224	.487	51.0	50.4	.245	-0.3

Career totals

438

1,607

1,422

143

321

RBI

158

133

219

.2257

OBP

.2960

SLG

.3052

OPS

.6012

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	TB
1913-07-23	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	0	2	4
1913-07-28	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	0	0	4
1917-05-24	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	2	4
1917-05-26	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	4
1917-05-21	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-10	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-18	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-19	SF @ ATL 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.