MLB / Players

Jack Smith

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 165 lb

BornJune 23, 1895 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 30, 1915

Final gameMay 23, 1929

Seasons15 (1915–1929)

St. Louis Cardinals 1915–1925; Boston Braves 1926; St. Louis Cardinals 1926; Boston Braves 1927–1929

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

124

59.8

502

58.6

459

59.8

84.5

130

58.6

51.7

59.2

30.5

RBI

31.6

63.2

25.9

96.6

3.4

.283

36.8

OBP

.333

28.2

SLG

.362

29.9

OPS

.694

wRC+

87.6

28.2

OPS+

87.8

28.7

wOBA

.323

24.1

sWAR

0.4

21.3

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.7

44.6

OPS+

101.9

45.5

sWAR

15.2

91.1

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1915	4	17	16	2	3	0	1	0	0	1	5	0	0	.188	.235	.313	.548	58.1	64.5	.260	0.0
1916	130	400	357	43	87	6	5	6	34	20	50	24	16	.244	.291	.339	.630	88.9	91.5	.300	0.9
1917	137	515	462	64	137	16	11	3	34	38	65	25	0	.297	.351	.398	.750	132.0	130.5	.357	3.4
1918	42	181	166	24	35	2	1	0	4	7	21	5	0	.211	.260	.235	.495	49.6	52.5	.246	-0.4
1919	119	451	408	47	91	16	3	0	15	26	29	30	0	.223	.271	.277	.548	64.3	67.1	.265	-0.8
1920	91	346	313	53	104	22	5	1	28	25	23	14	9	.332	.385	.444	.829	143.4	141.2	.389	2.9
1921	116	439	411	86	135	22	9	7	33	21	24	11	6	.328	.361	.477	.838	120.3	121.3	.378	2.2
1922	143	578	510	117	158	23	12	8	46	50	30	18	7	.310	.375	.449	.824	115.6	115.8	.379	2.8
1923	124	444	407	98	126	16	6	5	41	27	20	32	11	.310	.356	.415	.771	103.6	104.2	.356	1.2
1924	124	502	459	91	130	18	6	2	33	33	27	24	16	.283	.333	.362	.694	87.6	87.8	.323	0.4
1925	80	273	243	53	61	11	4	4	31	19	13	20	2	.251	.308	.379	.687	70.6	72.6	.313	-0.2
1926	97	360	323	46	100	15	2	2	25	28	13	11	0	.310	.368	.387	.755	111.6	110.5	.355	1.7
1927	84	207	183	27	58	6	4	1	24	16	12	8	0	.317	.375	.410	.785	116.2	115.3	.367	0.9
1928	96	289	254	30	71	9	2	1	32	21	14	6	0	.280	.335	.343	.677	79.3	79.5	.319	0.1
1929	19	24	20	2	5	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	.250	.318	.250	.568	48.2	44.6	.277	-0.1

Career totals

1,406

5,026

4,532

783

1,301

182

382nd-most career 3B

RBI

382

334

348

228

291st-most career SB

.2871

478th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3390

SLG

.3850

OPS

.7240

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	TB
1922-08-18	PHI @ STL Gameday	7	2	4	0	1	1	2	9
1926-08-04	PIT @ ATL Gameday	6	2	5	1	1	0	1	8
1921-09-17	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	2	5	2	0	0	2	7
1925-06-13	PHI @ STL Gameday	6	3	5	2	0	0	0	7
1921-08-06	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-18	STL @ CIN 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.