MLB / Players

Syd Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 190 lb
BornAugust 31, 1883 · Smithville, SC, USA
MLB debutApril 14, 1908
Final gameApril 18, 1915
Seasons5 (1908–1915)

Philadelphia Athletics 1908; St. Louis Browns 1908; Cleveland Naps 1910–1911; Pittsburgh Pirates 1914–1915

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
1.5
67.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
190873217204144012011581720.196.230.270.50056.861.3.2430.1
1910930271910033100.333.400.370.770142.8139.4.3810.3
19115817215484681121111000.299.353.383.736103.1104.1.3551.0
1914511111300010100.273.273.273.54559.366.2.2600.0
19151110000000000.000.000.000.000-123.8-100.0.0000.0

Career totals

G
146
PA
431
AB
397
R
24
H
98
2B
21
3B
1
HR
2
RBI
40
BB
22
SO
29
SB
2
BA
.2469
OBP
.2915
SLG
.3199
OPS
.6114

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1911-08-03CLE @ NYY Gameday433010215
1908-09-06DET @ BAL Gameday423200005
1908-06-14ATH @ DET Gameday322001315
1911-06-25CLE @ BAL Gameday403100004
1911-04-15CLE @ BAL Gameday311001014

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1908-04-14ATH @ NYY Gameday0.0000000
1908-04-16ATH @ NYY Gameday0.0000000
1908-04-17ATH @ NYY Gameday0.0000000
1908-04-18ATH @ BOS Gameday0.0000000
1908-04-20ATH @ BOS Gameday0.0000000

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.