MLB / Players

Smoky Joe Wood

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 25, 1889 · Kansas City, MO, USA

MLB debutAugust 24, 1908

Final gameSeptember 24, 1922

Seasons14 (1908–1922)

Boston Red Sox 1908–1915; Cleveland Indians 1917–1922

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified batters

142

64.2

583

64.8

505

59.7

63.5

150

60.4

87.4

67.3

74.8

RBI

89.3

71.7

4.4

28.9

57.2

.297

50.9

OBP

.367

57.9

SLG

.442

64.2

OPS

.809

62.9

wRC+

109.2

59.7

OPS+

109.2

59.7

wOBA

.374

61.6

sWAR

1.9

57.2

of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 480 PA)

1915 season — qualified pitchers

16.8

13.6

61.6

62.4

20.8

SHO

58.4

120

92.8

78.4

21.6

157.3

15.2

ERA

1.49

97.6

WHIP

1.042

89.6

K/9

3.60

38.4

FIP

2.52

FIP-

90.3

75.2

ERA+

187.3

96.8

sWAR

4.5

77.6

of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

146.2

99.3

sWAR

40.6

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
1908	6	7	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.2	-100.0	.000	0.1
1909	24	59	55	4	9	0	1	0	3	2	8	0	0	.164	.207	.200	.407	21.7	27.4	.204	2.3
1910	35	77	69	9	18	2	1	1	5	5	16	0	0	.261	.311	.362	.673	106.3	109.3	.327	4.6
1911	44	105	88	15	23	4	2	2	11	10	23	1	0	.261	.343	.420	.764	110.5	112.8	.365	7.6
1912	43	141	124	16	36	13	1	1	13	11	26	0	2	.290	.348	.435	.784	118.0	122.4	.373	10.3
1913	24	61	56	10	15	5	0	0	10	4	7	1	0	.268	.317	.357	.674	93.1	96.4	.327	3.1
1914	21	48	43	2	6	1	0	0	1	3	14	1	0	.140	.213	.163	.376	9.8	13.9	.198	1.2
1915	29	64	54	6	14	1	1	1	7	5	10	1	1	.259	.322	.370	.692	108.5	112.4	.339	4.5
1917	10	6	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1918	119	481	422	41	125	22	4	5	66	36	38	8	0	.296	.356	.403	.759	121.3	121.4	.371	2.2
1919	72	235	192	30	49	10	6	0	27	32	21	3	0	.255	.367	.370	.737	108.2	103.4	.360	0.7
1920	61	176	137	25	37	11	2	1	30	25	16	1	1	.270	.390	.401	.792	113.8	109.2	.380	0.2
1921	66	229	194	32	71	16	5	4	60	25	17	2	0	.366	.438	.562	1.000	152.6	152.8	.454	2.0
1922	142	583	505	74	150	33	8	8	92	50	63	5	1	.297	.367	.442	.809	109.2	109.2	.374	1.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1908	6	2	1	1	0	1	1	14	6	16	11	0	22.7	2.38	1.324	4.37	3.53	144.5	102.5	0.1
1909	24	19	11	7	0	13	4	121	39	43	88	1	160.7	2.18	1.021	4.93	2.19	87.1	115.0	2.3
1910	35	17	12	13	0	14	3	155	37	56	145	3	196.7	1.69	1.073	6.64	1.98	77.6	150.6	4.6
1911	44	33	23	17	3	25	5	226	62	76	231	2	275.7	2.02	1.096	7.54	2.28	68.4	164.6	7.6
1912	43	38	34	5	1	35	10	267	73	82	258	2	344.0	1.91	1.015	6.75	2.35	69.6	176.5	10.3
1913	23	18	11	5	2	12	1	120	37	61	123	0	145.7	2.29	1.243	7.60	2.22	75.3	129.1	3.1
1914	18	14	10	3	1	11	1	94	33	34	67	1	113.3	2.62	1.129	5.32	2.17	80.7	102.8	1.2
1915	25	16	15	5	2	10	3	120	26	44	63	1	157.3	1.49	1.042	3.60	2.52	90.3	187.3	4.5
1917	5	1	0	1	1	0	0	17	6	7	2	0	15.7	3.45	1.532	1.15	3.23	120.5	77.6	-0.1
1919	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	0.00	.000	0.00	2.53	76.0	—	0.7
1920	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	5	2	1	0	2.0	22.50	3.000	4.50	4.90	128.3	17.0	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

696

2,272

1,952

266

553

118

RBI

325

208

265

.2833

OBP

.3571

SLG

.4109

OPS

.7680

Pitching

G (P)

225

158

117

466th-most career W

121

326th-most career CG

SHO

135th-most career SHO

1,434

SO (P)

989

BB allowed

421

ERA

2.033

5th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0869

17th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.21

331st-highest career K/9

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
1918-05-24	CLE @ NYY Gameday	7	2	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1922-06-11	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	2	1	8
1922-06-30	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1921-09-13	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	4	1	8
1918-07-15	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1911-07-07	BOS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	1	1	0	3	15
1914-08-31	BAL @ BOS Gameday	11.0	8	3	1	2	13
1911-10-03	BOS @ NYY Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	1	13
1911-07-29	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	2	12
1911-09-25	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	2	0	4	11

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.