MLB / Players

Keith Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 178 lb
BornMay 3, 1953 · Palmetto, FL, USA
MLB debutAugust 2, 1977
Final gameOctober 5, 1980
Seasons3 (1977–1980)

Texas Rangers 1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1979–1980

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
-0.5
13.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1977237867131640264720.239.301.388.68987.886.9.3120.0
1979613131300000101.231.231.231.46217.026.2.214-0.1
19802433313410022200.129.182.161.343-26.1-4.5.152-0.4

Career totals

G
53
PA
124
AB
111
R
17
H
23
2B
5
3B
0
HR
2
RBI
8
BB
6
SO
10
SB
2
BA
.2072
OBP
.2605
SLG
.3063
OPS
.5668

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1977-08-12CWS @ TEX Gameday312001305
1977-09-25TEX @ ATH Gameday612001115
1979-09-28NYM @ STL Gameday402000002
1980-07-11STL @ WSH Gameday111100202
1977-08-08ATH @ TEX Gameday221100002

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.