Lonnie Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 22, 1955 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1978

Final gameAugust 10, 1994

Seasons17 (1978–1994)

Philadelphia Phillies 1978–1981; St. Louis Cardinals 1982–1984; Kansas City Royals 1985; St. Louis Cardinals 1985; Kansas City Royals 1986–1987; Atlanta Braves 1988–1992; Baltimore Orioles 1993; Pittsburgh Pirates 1993; Baltimore Orioles 1994

Percentile snapshot

1990 season — qualified batters

135

17.2

537

15.6

466

14.8

53.1

142

46.1

52.3

95.3

35.9

RBI

7.8

55.5

59.4

50.8

17.2

.305

89.8

OBP

.384

89.8

SLG

.459

79.7

OPS

.844

85.2

wRC+

131.2

83.6

OPS+

125.9

77.3

wOBA

.384

85.9

sWAR

3.2

60.2

of 129 qualified 1990 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.7

84.5

OPS+

118.5

77.1

sWAR

30.3

96.6

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
1978	17	8	4	6	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	4	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	133.5	51.7	.378	0.0
1979	17	31	30	4	5	2	0	0	3	1	7	2	1	.167	.194	.233	.427	5.8	15.2	.199	-0.3
1980	100	331	298	69	101	14	4	3	20	26	48	33	13	.339	.397	.443	.840	137.9	130.9	.389	2.3
1981	62	202	176	40	57	14	3	2	11	18	14	21	10	.324	.402	.472	.874	154.1	145.0	.408	1.8
1982	156	672	592	120	182	35	8	8	69	64	74	68	26	.307	.381	.434	.815	134.2	127.9	.379	4.4
1983	130	547	492	83	158	31	5	8	45	41	55	43	18	.321	.381	.453	.834	136.3	131.4	.384	3.6
1984	145	590	504	77	126	20	4	6	49	70	90	50	13	.250	.349	.341	.691	105.7	98.1	.333	1.7
1985	148	613	544	92	140	25	6	6	48	56	89	52	13	.257	.332	.358	.690	94.6	91.0	.318	1.0
1986	134	568	508	80	146	25	7	8	44	46	78	26	9	.287	.357	.411	.768	112.0	108.5	.348	2.1
1987	48	197	167	26	42	7	1	3	8	24	31	9	4	.251	.355	.359	.715	95.4	89.9	.328	0.2
1988	43	125	114	14	27	3	0	3	9	10	25	4	2	.237	.296	.342	.638	79.5	78.4	.299	-0.1
1989	134	577	482	89	152	34	4	21	79	76	95	25	12	.315	.415	.533	.948	172.8	165.3	.430	6.3
1990	135	537	466	72	142	27	9	9	42	58	69	10	10	.305	.384	.459	.844	131.2	125.9	.384	3.2
1991	122	416	353	58	97	19	1	7	44	50	64	9	5	.275	.377	.394	.771	119.2	112.8	.360	1.8
1992	84	182	158	23	39	8	2	6	33	17	37	4	0	.247	.324	.437	.761	110.3	110.0	.345	0.6
1993	103	284	223	43	62	6	4	8	27	51	52	9	4	.278	.420	.448	.868	141.2	133.7	.399	2.0
1994	35	72	59	13	12	3	0	0	2	11	18	1	0	.203	.333	.254	.588	62.3	53.0	.289	-0.4

Career totals

1,613

5,952

5,170

909

469th-most career R

1,488

273

RBI

533

623

495th-most career BB

849

370

94th-most career SB

.2878

464th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3714

269th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4199

OPS

.7913

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
1992-08-14	ATL @ PIT Gameday	6	3	5	2	0	1	6	10
1983-09-25	PHI @ STL Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	2	2	10
1986-09-18	KC @ LAA Gameday	4	2	4	3	1	0	1	9
1990-07-17	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	0	2	8
1983-04-21	STL @ WSH Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	1	8

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

1× 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.