MLB / Players

Ozzie Smith

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 150 lb

BornDecember 26, 1954 · Mobile, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 7, 1978

Final gameSeptember 29, 1996

Seasons19 (1978–1996)

San Diego Padres 1978–1981; St. Louis Cardinals 1982–1996

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified batters

22.4

433

43.6

381

45.5

29.5

100

32.7

30.8

8.3

RBI

5.8

43.6

95.5

48.1

45.5

.262

24.4

OBP

.326

22.4

SLG

.349

OPS

.675

8.3

wRC+

78.8

12.2

OPS+

78.4

11.5

wOBA

.307

sWAR

0.8

22.4

of 157 qualified 1994 batters (min 356 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.4

23.7

OPS+

87.4

18.9

sWAR

36.7

97.5

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	159	668	590	69	152	17	6	1	46	47	43	40	12	.258	.311	.312	.623	83.7	81.0	.297	1.8
1979	156	649	587	77	124	18	6	0	27	37	37	28	7	.211	.260	.262	.522	44.0	47.3	.245	-1.4
1980	158	712	609	67	140	18	5	0	35	71	49	57	15	.230	.313	.276	.589	75.3	70.1	.288	1.1
1981	110	507	450	53	100	11	2	0	21	41	37	22	12	.222	.294	.256	.549	64.8	62.1	.270	0.2
1982	140	567	488	58	121	24	1	2	43	68	32	25	5	.248	.339	.314	.653	84.6	84.0	.307	1.6
1983	159	626	552	69	134	30	6	3	50	64	36	34	7	.243	.321	.335	.657	83.2	83.1	.307	1.7
1984	124	484	412	53	106	20	5	1	44	56	17	35	7	.257	.347	.337	.684	100.1	96.3	.325	2.3
1985	158	615	537	70	148	22	3	6	54	65	27	31	8	.276	.355	.361	.716	104.6	103.3	.332	3.2
1986	153	609	514	67	144	19	4	0	54	79	27	31	7	.280	.376	.333	.709	103.2	99.9	.333	3.0
1987	158	706	600	104	182	40	4	0	75	89	36	43	9	.303	.392	.383	.775	113.5	106.4	.360	4.3
1988	153	669	575	80	155	27	1	3	51	74	43	57	9	.270	.350	.336	.686	104.7	98.5	.327	3.4
1989	155	664	593	82	162	30	8	2	50	55	37	29	7	.273	.335	.361	.696	100.8	97.4	.326	3.1
1990	143	592	512	61	130	21	1	1	50	61	33	32	6	.254	.330	.305	.635	79.1	76.6	.300	1.2
1991	150	641	550	96	157	30	3	3	50	83	36	35	9	.285	.380	.367	.747	119.4	111.5	.354	4.5
1992	132	590	518	73	153	20	2	0	31	59	34	43	9	.295	.367	.342	.708	110.7	105.1	.336	3.4
1993	141	603	545	75	157	22	6	1	53	43	18	21	8	.288	.337	.356	.693	90.5	88.5	.319	2.0
1994	98	433	381	51	100	18	3	3	30	38	26	6	3	.262	.326	.349	.675	78.8	78.4	.307	0.8
1995	44	182	156	16	31	5	1	0	11	17	12	4	3	.199	.282	.244	.526	43.7	41.2	.254	-0.5
1996	82	261	227	36	64	10	2	2	18	25	9	7	5	.282	.358	.370	.728	100.0	94.6	.337	1.1

Career totals

2,573

49th-most career G

10,778

43rd-most career PA

9,396

53rd-most career AB

1,257

150th-most career R

2,460

113th-most career H

402

193rd-most career 2B

405th-most career 3B

RBI

793

1,072

97th-most career BB

589

580

22nd-most career SB

.2618

OBP

.3375

SLG

.3282

OPS

.6657

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
1993-06-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	1	5	3	0	0	6	0	8
1993-05-30	SD @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
1989-06-11	STL @ CHC Gameday	6	2	5	2	0	0	2	0	7
1983-08-11	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1996-09-02	HOU @ STL Gameday	5	4	3	1	0	1	3	1	7

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, 2002 (BBWAA)

13× Gold Glove1× NLCS MVP1× Silver Slugger15× 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.