Hal Smith
Baltimore Orioles 1955–1956; Kansas City Athletics 1956–1959; Pittsburgh Pirates 1960–1961; Houston Colt .45's 1962–1963; Cincinnati Reds 1964
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 135 | 466 | 424 | 41 | 115 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 52 | 30 | 21 | 1 | 3 | .271 | .318 | .373 | .691 | 88.3 | 91.3 | .320 | 1.9 |
| 1956 | 114 | 398 | 371 | 31 | 99 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 42 | 20 | 34 | 2 | 1 | .267 | .303 | .380 | .683 | 77.1 | 82.9 | .309 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 107 | 383 | 360 | 41 | 109 | 26 | 0 | 13 | 41 | 14 | 44 | 2 | 2 | .303 | .328 | .483 | .811 | 116.2 | 116.3 | .363 | 2.9 |
| 1958 | 99 | 351 | 315 | 32 | 86 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 46 | 25 | 47 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .323 | .394 | .717 | 91.0 | 94.0 | .322 | 1.0 |
| 1959 | 108 | 332 | 292 | 36 | 84 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 31 | 34 | 39 | 0 | 3 | .288 | .367 | .380 | .747 | 108.0 | 103.1 | .348 | 1.8 |
| 1960 | 77 | 286 | 258 | 37 | 76 | 18 | 2 | 11 | 45 | 22 | 48 | 1 | 1 | .295 | .351 | .508 | .859 | 135.7 | 133.0 | .380 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 67 | 208 | 193 | 12 | 43 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 11 | 38 | 0 | 0 | .223 | .267 | .321 | .588 | 54.0 | 56.5 | .265 | 0.0 |
| 1962 | 109 | 376 | 345 | 32 | 81 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 35 | 24 | 55 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .286 | .380 | .666 | 80.7 | 82.5 | .300 | 1.1 |
| 1963 | 31 | 62 | 58 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .241 | .290 | .276 | .566 | 64.3 | 68.9 | .260 | 0.0 |
| 1964 | 32 | 79 | 66 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .121 | .256 | .136 | .393 | 11.7 | 13.3 | .199 | -0.4 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-06-07 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1960-07-20 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1956-09-07 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1960-07-21 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1957-06-16 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-07-24 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-19 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-04-30 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-06-07 | BOS @ ATH 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.