Johnny Smith
Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Birmingham Black Barons 1942; Chicago American Giants 1943–1945; New York Black Yankees 1946–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 16 | 62 | 58 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .224 | .274 | .259 | .533 | 65.0 | 60.7 | .267 | 0.1 |
| 1942 | 16 | 58 | 56 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .286 | .310 | .411 | .721 | 108.4 | 113.6 | .334 | 0.2 |
| 1943 | 24 | 104 | 98 | 15 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .245 | .265 | .510 | 57.8 | 56.6 | .247 | -0.3 |
| 1944 | 12 | 44 | 41 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .317 | .349 | .341 | .690 | 112.8 | 114.2 | .336 | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 36 | 153 | 143 | 23 | 48 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .336 | .373 | .462 | .834 | 135.1 | 143.2 | .388 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 10 | 39 | 36 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .306 | .359 | .417 | .776 | 112.5 | 116.2 | .369 | 0.2 |
| 1947 | 23 | 101 | 97 | 13 | 39 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .402 | .426 | .505 | .931 | 147.7 | 154.1 | .434 | 0.9 |
| 1948 | 22 | 86 | 81 | 8 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .321 | .360 | .358 | .718 | 107.4 | 108.1 | .345 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 7.0 | 1.29 | 1.000 | 9.00 | 3.45 | 83.4 | 321.3 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.00 | .444 | 2.00 | 3.42 | 101.7 | — | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8.7 | 3.12 | .923 | 2.08 | 3.75 | 88.5 | 136.1 | 1.2 |
| 1948 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 15.7 | 7.47 | 1.723 | 2.30 | 6.86 | 193.2 | 47.5 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-09-17 | NBY @ IC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1945-07-19 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1947-07-25 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1945-08-28 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1947-08-12 | NBY @ NE Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-07-26 | HSL @ TIC Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1944-08-31 | CLB @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1945-05-25 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 8.2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1948-06-11 | HOM @ NBY Gameday | 6.2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1948-07-10 | NBY @ NYC Gameday | 3.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 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.