Smoky Owens
Jacksonville Red Caps 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939–1940; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified pitchers
of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 41 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 11 | 30 | 27 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .259 | .481 | 39.1 | 39.7 | .225 | 2.0 |
| 1940 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -82.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1942 | 13 | 24 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .318 | .364 | .682 | 98.4 | 102.6 | .317 | 1.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.3 | 11.57 | 2.571 | 7.71 | 3.56 | 83.4 | 36.8 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 54 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 2 | 66.3 | 1.90 | 1.070 | 2.71 | 4.11 | 103.9 | 208.4 | 2.0 |
| 1940 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 13.3 | 2.03 | 1.425 | 4.05 | 4.18 | 101.2 | 204.0 | 0.4 |
| 1942 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 49 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 57.3 | 3.14 | 1.203 | 2.98 | 4.87 | 120.1 | 129.1 | 1.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-06-18 | KCM @ JRC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1939-05-14 | CAG @ JRC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-06-14 | KCM @ CLB Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1939-05-21 | ATL @ JRC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1942-07-02 | CLB @ JRC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-07-15 | CLB @ HOM Gameday | 12.0 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| 1939-06-15 | JRC @ ATL Gameday | 4.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1939-06-18 | KCM @ JRC Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1939-08-13 | JRC @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1942-06-14 | KCM @ CLB Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.