MLB / Players

Sherry Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 18, 1891 · Monticello, GA, USA

MLB debutMay 11, 1911

Final gameJuly 18, 1927

Seasons14 (1911–1927)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1911–1912; Brooklyn Robins 1915–1917; Brooklyn Robins 1919–1922; Cleveland Indians 1922–1927

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified pitchers

62.8

53.5

40.3

82.2

SHO

31.8

214

30.2

47.3

86.8

6.2

34.9

188.3

64.3

ERA

3.73

WHIP

1.301

66.7

K/9

1.19

FIP

3.77

68.2

FIP-

93.5

65.1

ERA+

108.0

48.8

sWAR

2.7

61.2

of 130 qualified 1926 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.2

65.3

sWAR

28.4

96.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1911	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1912	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1915	29	61	57	7	14	4	0	0	2	3	8	0	1	.246	.283	.316	.599	76.2	80.3	.286	2.5
1916	38	85	77	4	21	1	2	0	7	4	18	1	0	.273	.317	.338	.655	99.3	100.1	.313	3.7
1917	43	82	77	3	15	2	4	0	2	4	17	1	0	.195	.235	.325	.559	62.0	69.2	.264	0.8
1919	30	59	54	4	8	2	0	0	5	1	9	0	0	.148	.164	.185	.349	-10.7	4.1	.166	3.0
1920	33	44	43	6	10	2	2	0	3	1	9	1	0	.233	.250	.372	.622	67.0	75.4	.285	3.8
1921	35	59	57	2	13	3	0	1	2	1	12	0	0	.228	.241	.333	.575	41.4	49.7	.259	1.7
1922	30	42	41	5	11	1	0	1	4	1	5	0	0	.268	.286	.366	.652	63.3	68.1	.297	0.9
1923	30	50	45	5	11	0	0	1	4	3	11	0	1	.244	.292	.311	.603	54.5	58.0	.288	2.4
1924	40	97	89	7	18	3	0	1	5	3	16	0	1	.202	.237	.270	.506	20.6	28.7	.240	5.8
1925	31	103	92	9	28	3	1	1	15	6	13	1	0	.304	.360	.391	.751	90.1	90.3	.354	1.8
1926	27	71	65	7	14	3	1	1	11	2	12	0	0	.215	.239	.338	.577	39.1	49.2	.264	2.7
1927	11	13	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	.167	.231	.167	.397	3.5	4.2	.202	-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
1911	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	1	0	0	0.7	54.00	7.500	0.00	7.12	208.9	6.3	-0.4
1912	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	3	1	3	0	4.0	6.75	1.750	6.75	2.00	60.8	48.6	-0.1
1915	29	20	14	8	2	11	2	169	50	42	52	3	173.7	2.59	1.215	2.69	2.79	100.8	106.9	2.5
1916	36	23	14	10	1	15	4	193	57	45	67	5	219.0	2.34	1.087	2.75	2.65	100.4	112.5	3.7
1917	38	23	12	12	3	15	0	210	78	51	58	5	211.3	3.32	1.235	2.47	2.89	105.3	82.7	0.8
1919	30	19	7	12	1	13	2	181	43	29	40	3	173.0	2.24	1.214	2.08	2.78	94.4	131.5	3.0
1920	33	12	11	9	3	6	2	134	28	27	33	1	136.3	1.85	1.181	2.18	2.85	89.3	172.7	3.8
1921	35	17	7	11	4	9	0	232	76	34	36	4	175.3	3.90	1.517	1.85	3.48	90.8	98.1	1.7
1922	30	11	5	8	2	4	1	146	61	38	19	6	124.3	4.42	1.480	1.38	4.46	110.5	91.5	0.9
1923	30	16	9	6	1	10	1	129	45	37	23	4	124.0	3.27	1.339	1.67	3.90	97.2	122.8	2.4
1924	39	27	12	14	1	20	2	267	83	42	34	5	247.7	3.02	1.248	1.24	3.71	85.5	143.7	5.8
1925	31	30	11	14	1	22	1	296	128	48	30	11	237.0	4.86	1.451	1.14	4.13	93.9	90.4	1.8
1926	27	24	11	10	0	16	1	214	78	31	25	8	188.3	3.73	1.301	1.19	3.77	93.5	108.0	2.7
1927	11	2	1	4	1	1	0	53	23	14	8	2	38.0	5.45	1.763	1.89	4.43	106.7	76.2	-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

381

766

709

165

RBI

134

.2327

OBP

.2678

SLG

.3202

OPS

.5880

Pitching

G (P)

373

224

114

493rd-most career W

118

351st-most career L

142

248th-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

2,053

426th-most career IP

SO (P)

428

BB allowed

440

ERA

3.319

324th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3027

K/9

1.88

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	RBI	BB	TB
1925-07-28	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	3	1	5
1915-09-11	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	4
1921-04-20	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	4
1917-04-14	PHI @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	4
1920-09-11	STL @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1919-08-29	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	9	6	6	2	7	0
1916-05-19	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	1	6	1
1916-06-29	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	6	0
1917-10-04	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	6	0
1916-04-29	LAD @ SF Gameday	8.0	10	3	3	2	6	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.