Theolic Smith
Pittsburgh Crawfords 1936–1938; St. Louis Stars 1939; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified pitchers
of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 17 | 35 | 30 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .324 | .300 | .624 | 68.1 | 60.1 | .302 | -0.4 |
| 1937 | 20 | 51 | 42 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .262 | .354 | .381 | .735 | 93.4 | 89.4 | .341 | 0.1 |
| 1938 | 14 | 25 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .286 | .263 | .549 | 55.8 | 45.8 | .266 | -0.4 |
| 1939 | 16 | 43 | 38 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .263 | .333 | .342 | .675 | 98.2 | 96.5 | .326 | 1.3 |
| 1943 | 25 | 81 | 68 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .265 | .375 | .324 | .699 | 120.4 | 115.1 | .350 | 2.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 98 | 61 | 40 | 28 | 5 | 80.7 | 6.81 | 1.711 | 3.12 | 5.73 | 112.1 | 75.1 | -0.4 |
| 1937 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 83 | 44 | 26 | 29 | 7 | 63.7 | 6.22 | 1.712 | 4.10 | 5.82 | 116.7 | 80.2 | 0.1 |
| 1938 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 65 | 34 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 43.3 | 7.06 | 1.823 | 3.74 | 6.34 | 125.5 | 71.6 | -0.4 |
| 1939 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 73 | 26 | 22 | 37 | 1 | 69.0 | 3.39 | 1.377 | 4.83 | 3.76 | 94.9 | 116.7 | 1.3 |
| 1943 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 90 | 30 | 24 | 43 | 0 | 98.0 | 2.76 | 1.163 | 3.95 | 3.35 | 88.9 | 136.6 | 2.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-29 | TIC @ PHS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1937-07-24 | TIC @ NBY Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1936-07-19 | TIC @ BEG Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1937-08-18 | TIC @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-07-18 | HOM @ CLB Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-08-14 | TIC @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 1939-08-20 | HSL @ CAG Gameday | 8.0 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 1943-08-04 | CLB @ MEM Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 1943-08-29 | BBB @ CLB Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1936-08-01 | NBY @ TIC Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 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.