George Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 163 lb

BornMay 31, 1892 · East Port Chester, CT, USA

MLB debutAugust 9, 1916

Final gameSeptember 21, 1923

Seasons8 (1916–1923)

New York Giants 1916–1917; Brooklyn Robins 1918; Cincinnati Reds 1918; New York Giants 1918–1919; Philadelphia Phillies 1919–1922; Brooklyn Robins 1923

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified pitchers

85.2

38.3

17.4

18.3

13.9

SHO

38.3

250

33.9

103

22.6

75.7

26.1

6.1

194.0

57.4

ERA

4.78

21.7

WHIP

1.469

K/9

2.04

FIP

4.33

36.5

FIP-

94.1

67.8

ERA+

96.2

33.9

sWAR

0.8

21.7

of 116 qualified 1922 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.0

12.3

sWAR

4.3

77.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1916	9	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.2	-100.0	.000	0.1
1917	14	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.4	-100.0	.000	0.1
1918	23	46	40	3	5	0	1	3	18	.125	.186	.125	.311	-8.7	-3.8	.164	-0.1
1919	34	67	63	2	8	2	1	2	30	.127	.154	.159	.313	-28.2	-9.9	.152	1.0
1920	43	85	72	5	7	0	3	5	26	.097	.156	.097	.253	-43.2	-28.9	.135	1.5
1921	39	74	71	1	4	1	3	2	29	.056	.082	.070	.153	-84.0	-61.1	.076	-0.2
1922	42	66	66	1	5	0	2	0	24	.076	.076	.076	.152	-86.5	-63.0	.070	0.8
1923	25	27	26	3	5	0	2	0	12	.192	.192	.192	.385	-4.5	3.3	.178	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1916	9	1	3	0	0	0	0	14	6	6	9	0	20.7	2.61	.968	3.92	2.45	97.8	95.9	0.1
1917	14	1	0	3	0	1	0	38	12	11	16	1	38.0	2.84	1.289	3.79	2.83	109.3	91.0	0.1
1918	23	13	8	7	0	9	1	140	50	22	41	3	132.0	3.41	1.227	2.80	2.54	93.7	79.7	-0.1
1919	34	22	5	13	0	11	1	212	73	50	42	8	195.7	3.36	1.339	1.93	3.36	106.7	94.0	1.0
1920	43	28	13	18	2	10	1	265	96	51	51	10	250.7	3.45	1.261	1.83	3.40	100.8	97.7	1.5
1921	39	28	4	20	1	12	1	303	117	52	45	12	221.3	4.76	1.604	1.83	4.03	97.2	87.2	-0.2
1922	42	18	5	14	0	6	1	250	103	35	44	16	194.0	4.78	1.469	2.04	4.33	94.1	96.2	0.8
1923	25	7	3	6	1	3	0	99	37	28	15	4	91.0	3.66	1.396	1.48	4.22	108.9	106.0	1.0

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

229

377

349

RBI

144

.0974

OBP

.1274

SLG

.1060

OPS

.2334

Pitching

G (P)

229

118

SHO

1,143

SO (P)

263

BB allowed

255

ERA

3.889

WHIP

1.3784

K/9

2.07

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	TB
1919-07-08	CHC @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	1	3
1918-09-02	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	2
1920-05-06	ATL @ PHI Gameday	2	1	2	0	2
1922-05-23	PHI @ PIT Gameday	2	0	2	0	2
1919-08-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	0	1	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-10-03	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	8	0
1918-05-14	LAD @ CIN Gameday	10.0	6	1	0	2	5	0
1921-05-14	PIT @ PHI Gameday	10.0	13	6	5	1	5	0
1918-08-22	LAD @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	0	5	0
1922-07-31	CHC @ PHI Gameday	8.2	13	8	8	3	5	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.