MLB / Players

Hilton Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 27, 1907 · Giddings, TX, USA

Final gameSeptember 21, 1948

Seasons14 (1932–1948)

Monroe Monarchs 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1936; Chicago American Giants 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1937–1948

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

14.3

17.9

22.6

21.4

SHO

79.8

82.1

85.7

23.8

77.4

77.0

21.4

ERA

3.27

WHIP

1.234

71.4

K/9

4.91

77.4

FIP

3.89

23.8

FIP-

91.8

59.5

ERA+

129.6

64.3

sWAR

1.6

34.5

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 64 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

25.5

95.5

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
1932	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-91.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1936	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1937	29	69	66	4	19	2	0	1	7	1	2	1	.288	.299	.364	.662	82.3	82.4	.303	5.0
1938	26	71	68	9	25	6	0	3	13	2	0	1	.368	.386	.588	.974	160.1	178.1	.443	4.5
1939	26	54	52	3	9	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	.173	.185	.212	.397	16.7	15.2	.186	2.3
1940	19	31	30	2	14	4	1	0	7	1	0	0	.467	.484	.667	1.151	218.3	247.0	.545	1.5
1941	16	43	40	6	13	5	0	0	8	3	0	0	.325	.372	.450	.822	136.4	143.4	.391	3.6
1942	18	47	45	6	15	2	0	0	6	2	0	0	.333	.362	.378	.739	117.1	120.3	.349	1.3
1943	26	67	62	8	16	3	2	0	9	5	0	0	.258	.313	.371	.684	107.4	109.8	.329	1.7
1944	20	35	32	2	8	0	0	1	3	3	0	0	.250	.314	.344	.658	103.8	104.0	.322	0.6
1945	20	41	39	2	10	1	0	0	8	1	0	1	.256	.275	.282	.557	65.8	63.2	.265	1.6
1946	16	34	33	4	13	2	0	0	10	1	0	0	.394	.412	.455	.866	146.0	155.5	.416	2.3
1947	24	46	44	3	12	1	0	1	10	1	0	0	.273	.289	.364	.653	73.0	75.0	.306	0.3
1948	13	30	28	6	9	2	1	0	5	1	0	0	.321	.345	.464	.809	109.3	115.2	.370	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
1932	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	0	2	1	5.7	4.76	1.059	3.18	5.03	134.9	78.2	-0.1
1936	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	2.0	9.00	4.000	9.00	7.16	152.1	52.3	-0.1
1937	21	16	11	4	1	9	3	85	24	27	99	2	130.3	1.66	.859	6.84	3.39	75.7	270.1	5.0
1938	19	11	9	2	1	7	1	102	26	12	88	3	112.7	2.08	1.012	7.03	3.14	73.7	205.2	4.5
1939	21	12	6	4	4	6	1	82	31	19	84	1	105.3	2.65	.959	7.18	2.69	68.0	149.5	2.3
1940	16	7	4	4	3	4	0	53	27	15	64	1	64.3	3.78	1.057	8.95	2.69	65.1	109.4	1.5
1941	15	8	10	0	3	7	2	72	17	11	67	2	92.3	1.66	.899	6.53	2.77	74.6	224.0	3.6
1942	14	7	5	4	2	5	0	91	36	19	53	2	85.0	3.81	1.294	5.61	3.27	80.8	106.4	1.3
1943	10	6	3	2	0	3	1	49	17	10	29	0	60.0	2.55	.983	4.35	3.02	80.3	147.6	1.7
1944	9	6	2	5	1	3	0	45	19	17	18	0	49.7	3.44	1.248	3.26	3.50	104.1	97.8	0.6
1945	11	8	6	4	0	6	0	76	28	19	42	2	77.0	3.27	1.234	4.91	3.89	91.8	129.6	1.6
1946	8	6	4	2	1	3	0	40	8	10	16	1	51.7	1.39	.968	2.79	3.93	96.0	294.1	2.3
1947	13	8	7	4	0	6	0	105	49	15	25	2	75.7	5.83	1.586	2.97	4.45	90.3	84.5	0.3
1948	11	7	4	2	0	4	0	72	31	21	39	2	63.7	4.38	1.461	5.51	4.28	88.5	110.4	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

256

571

542

163

RBI

.3007

OBP

.3274

SLG

.4041

OPS

.7315

Pitching

G (P)

170

104

SHO

975

SO (P)

628

BB allowed

198

ERA

2.934

WHIP

1.1083

K/9

5.79

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1938-07-24	CAG @ KCM Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1938-05-22	HSL @ KCM Gameday	5	2	5	2	0	4	0	7
1943-08-24	KCM @ IC Gameday	5	0	5	1	0	2	1	6
1941-07-07	CAG @ KCM Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	4	1	5
1940-05-19	KCM @ MEM Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-08-09	KCM @ CAG Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	14	0
1940-07-04	BBB @ KCM Gameday	9.0	3	2	1	1	14	0
1941-06-11	CAG @ KCM Gameday	12.0	6	0	0	2	12	0
1940-08-02	KCM @ TIC Gameday	7.0	6	4	4	3	12	0
1938-08-11	HSL @ KCM Gameday	6.0	6	4	3	1	12	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 2001 (Veterans)

6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.