Paul Smith
Pittsburgh Pirates 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1957; Chicago Cubs 1958; Pittsburgh Pirates 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 118 | 427 | 389 | 41 | 110 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 44 | 24 | 23 | 3 | 0 | .283 | .329 | .380 | .710 | 80.5 | 82.2 | .319 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 81 | 167 | 150 | 12 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 2 | .253 | .313 | .340 | .653 | 79.3 | 78.9 | .297 | -0.1 |
| 1958 | 24 | 29 | 23 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .174 | .345 | .174 | .519 | 60.5 | 48.0 | .278 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-08-23 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1953-08-12 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1953-08-05 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1953-05-20 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-08-16 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-04-16 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-04-28 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-04-29 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-05-03 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-05-04 | STL @ PIT 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.