Willard Schmidt
St. Louis Cardinals 1952–1953; St. Louis Cardinals 1955–1957; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958–1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -52.4 | -30.4 | .115 | -0.3 |
| 1953 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.8 |
| 1955 | 20 | 44 | 42 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .119 | .119 | .143 | .262 | -47.3 | -31.0 | .117 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 33 | 48 | 43 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .267 | .256 | .522 | 38.5 | 41.7 | .242 | 1.5 |
| 1957 | 40 | 38 | 33 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .235 | .212 | .447 | 13.3 | 20.9 | .208 | 0.0 |
| 1958 | 41 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -42.6 | -30.8 | .137 | 1.7 |
| 1959 | 36 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .313 | .083 | .396 | 33.8 | 11.4 | .242 | 0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 20 | 18 | 30 | 6 | 34.7 | 5.19 | 1.558 | 7.79 | 4.67 | 125.6 | 71.6 | -0.3 |
| 1953 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 17.7 | 9.17 | 1.925 | 5.60 | 4.48 | 104.4 | 46.8 | -0.8 |
| 1955 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 89 | 40 | 57 | 86 | 7 | 129.7 | 2.78 | 1.126 | 5.97 | 3.07 | 75.1 | 147.2 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 33 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 131 | 63 | 78 | 52 | 18 | 147.7 | 3.84 | 1.415 | 3.17 | 4.72 | 124.6 | 98.6 | 1.5 |
| 1957 | 40 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 146 | 62 | 49 | 63 | 13 | 116.7 | 4.78 | 1.671 | 4.86 | 4.19 | 106.3 | 82.4 | 0.0 |
| 1958 | 41 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 22 | 33 | 41 | 8 | 69.3 | 2.86 | 1.341 | 5.32 | 4.30 | 103.3 | 145.6 | 1.7 |
| 1959 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 31 | 30 | 40 | 4 | 70.7 | 3.95 | 1.557 | 5.09 | 3.54 | 87.4 | 102.7 | 0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-07-22 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1956-06-10 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1956-08-01 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1957-05-30 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1955-08-31 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-09-21 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 12.2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
| 1955-09-09 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1955-08-11 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1955-09-13 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1952-06-03 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
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.