Germany Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornApril 20, 1859 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1884

Final gameOctober 9, 1898

Seasons15 (1884–1898)

Altoona Mountain City 1884; Cleveland Blues 1884; Brooklyn Grays 1885–1887; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1888–1890; Cincinnati Reds 1891–1896; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1897; St. Louis Browns 1898

Percentile snapshot

1897 season — qualified batters

112

43.5

453

31.5

428

39.1

27.2

30.4

RBI

26.1

27.2

35.9

26.1

.201

8.7

OBP

.233

5.4

SLG

.255

10.9

OPS

.488

7.6

wRC+

35.0

5.4

OPS+

28.6

wOBA

.234

9.8

sWAR

-1.9

of 93 qualified 1897 batters (min 421 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

78.6

8.8

OPS+

75.8

sWAR

10.6

87.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1884	97	402	399	40	108	22	5	4	26	3	45	0	.271	.276	.381	.657	103.9	109.3	.295	1.8
1885	108	429	419	63	108	17	11	4	62	10	0	0	.258	.275	.379	.655	101.3	105.1	.300	2.0
1886	105	445	426	66	105	17	6	2	45	19	0	22	.246	.279	.329	.607	90.7	90.6	.289	1.4
1887	103	449	435	79	128	19	16	4	72	13	18	26	.294	.316	.439	.755	101.9	108.1	.349	2.0
1888	103	424	402	47	86	10	7	3	61	22	39	27	.214	.255	.296	.551	80.6	76.0	.264	0.8
1889	121	487	446	89	103	22	3	3	53	40	42	35	.231	.296	.314	.610	79.2	73.3	.296	0.8
1890	129	526	481	76	92	6	5	1	47	42	23	24	.191	.260	.231	.491	54.9	43.3	.248	-0.7
1891	138	551	512	50	103	11	5	3	53	38	32	16	.201	.258	.260	.517	58.8	50.7	.255	-0.5
1892	139	548	506	58	123	13	6	8	63	42	52	19	.243	.301	.340	.641	92.5	93.4	.311	1.9
1893	130	540	500	63	118	18	6	4	56	38	20	14	.236	.293	.320	.613	67.8	62.6	.297	0.0
1894	129	538	492	73	130	34	6	3	79	41	28	15	.264	.323	.376	.699	72.6	68.0	.327	0.2
1895	127	540	503	75	151	23	6	4	74	34	24	13	.300	.345	.394	.738	90.3	89.9	.348	1.5
1896	120	492	456	65	131	21	9	3	71	28	22	22	.287	.330	.393	.722	89.1	89.9	.341	1.4
1897	112	453	428	47	86	17	3	0	29	14	23	1	.201	.233	.255	.488	35.0	28.6	.234	-1.9
1898	51	184	157	16	25	2	1	1	9	24	22	1	.159	.275	.204	.479	51.1	37.4	.255	-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
1884	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	1.0	9.00	3.000	9.00	1.67	54.8	33.8	1.8

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

1,712

500th-most career G

7,008

460th-most career PA

6,562

384th-most career AB

907

473rd-most career R

1,597

252

186th-most career 3B

RBI

800

408

390

235

270th-most career SB

.2434

OBP

.2893

SLG

.3322

OPS

.6215

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

9.000

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

9.00

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.