Hal Smith
St. Louis Cardinals 1956–1961; Pittsburgh Pirates 1965
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 75 | 242 | 227 | 27 | 64 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 22 | 1 | 0 | .282 | .326 | .401 | .727 | 92.3 | 94.4 | .320 | 1.2 |
| 1957 | 100 | 355 | 333 | 25 | 93 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 2 | .279 | .314 | .351 | .665 | 75.3 | 77.5 | .298 | 0.9 |
| 1958 | 77 | 238 | 220 | 13 | 50 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .272 | .268 | .541 | 32.0 | 42.0 | .243 | -0.6 |
| 1959 | 142 | 473 | 452 | 35 | 122 | 15 | 3 | 13 | 50 | 15 | 28 | 2 | 6 | .270 | .295 | .403 | .698 | 74.0 | 79.5 | .306 | 1.3 |
| 1960 | 127 | 369 | 337 | 20 | 77 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 29 | 33 | 1 | 0 | .228 | .291 | .294 | .585 | 43.9 | 56.0 | .257 | -0.2 |
| 1961 | 45 | 142 | 125 | 6 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .248 | .309 | .296 | .605 | 48.3 | 56.7 | .269 | -0.1 |
| 1965 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-05-09 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1959-09-20 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1956-07-21 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1957-06-11 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1957-05-08 | STL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-05-11 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965-05-12 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965-05-13 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965-05-21 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965-05-23 | PIT @ 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.