Walter Schmidt
Pittsburgh Pirates 1916–1924; St. Louis Cardinals 1925
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 64 | 202 | 184 | 16 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .190 | .236 | .250 | .486 | 40.4 | 47.6 | .235 | -0.2 |
| 1917 | 72 | 202 | 183 | 9 | 45 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 0 | .246 | .296 | .284 | .580 | 73.9 | 75.6 | .282 | 0.7 |
| 1918 | 105 | 356 | 323 | 31 | 77 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 0 | .238 | .281 | .276 | .556 | 64.3 | 67.8 | .272 | 0.7 |
| 1919 | 85 | 299 | 267 | 23 | 67 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 0 | .251 | .310 | .300 | .610 | 82.7 | 82.3 | .297 | 1.2 |
| 1920 | 94 | 348 | 310 | 22 | 86 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 3 | .277 | .337 | .329 | .666 | 92.8 | 91.2 | .321 | 1.7 |
| 1921 | 114 | 417 | 393 | 30 | 111 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 6 | .282 | .307 | .321 | .628 | 62.8 | 65.8 | .291 | 0.4 |
| 1922 | 40 | 156 | 152 | 21 | 50 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .329 | .333 | .414 | .748 | 88.7 | 92.2 | .340 | 0.6 |
| 1923 | 97 | 365 | 335 | 39 | 83 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 5 | .248 | .300 | .281 | .581 | 53.8 | 53.7 | .278 | -0.2 |
| 1924 | 58 | 194 | 177 | 16 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 1 | .243 | .295 | .299 | .594 | 58.8 | 60.2 | .280 | 0.1 |
| 1925 | 37 | 96 | 87 | 9 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .253 | .293 | .299 | .592 | 47.8 | 50.2 | .276 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918-08-12 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1919-06-10 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1923-05-04 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1917-09-03 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1919-07-07 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-04-12 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-13 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-14 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-15 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-16 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.