Willie Smith
Detroit Tigers 1963; Los Angeles Angels 1964; California Angels 1965–1966; Cleveland Indians 1967; Chicago Cubs 1968; Cleveland Indians 1968; Chicago Cubs 1969–1970; Cincinnati Reds 1971
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -51.1 | -30.4 | .114 | -0.1 |
| 1964 | 118 | 373 | 359 | 46 | 108 | 14 | 6 | 11 | 51 | 8 | 39 | 7 | 5 | .301 | .317 | .465 | .782 | 121.1 | 122.8 | .344 | 2.3 |
| 1965 | 136 | 498 | 459 | 52 | 120 | 14 | 9 | 14 | 57 | 32 | 60 | 9 | 8 | .261 | .308 | .423 | .731 | 105.1 | 111.2 | .321 | 1.3 |
| 1966 | 90 | 215 | 195 | 18 | 36 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 37 | 1 | 0 | .185 | .239 | .236 | .475 | 33.1 | 39.4 | .219 | -1.3 |
| 1967 | 21 | 33 | 32 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2 | .219 | .242 | .281 | .524 | 48.7 | 54.6 | .243 | -0.1 |
| 1968 | 88 | 204 | 184 | 14 | 45 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 28 | 15 | 47 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .305 | .402 | .708 | 105.3 | 107.6 | .322 | 0.9 |
| 1969 | 103 | 223 | 195 | 21 | 48 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 25 | 25 | 49 | 1 | 0 | .246 | .330 | .441 | .771 | 104.0 | 104.6 | .351 | 0.5 |
| 1970 | 87 | 182 | 167 | 15 | 36 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 11 | 32 | 2 | 1 | .216 | .267 | .371 | .638 | 58.3 | 62.0 | .291 | -0.7 |
| 1971 | 31 | 58 | 55 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .207 | .255 | .461 | 25.4 | 32.2 | .218 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 2 | 21.7 | 4.57 | 1.708 | 6.65 | 3.98 | 106.7 | 81.7 | -0.1 |
| 1964 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 31.7 | 2.84 | 1.389 | 5.68 | 4.29 | 127.1 | 118.8 | 2.3 |
| 1968 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7.7 | 0.00 | .391 | 3.52 | 1.94 | 65.2 | — | 0.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-07-25 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1964-07-02 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 1964-08-27 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1968-08-20 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1965-07-09 | CLE @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-06-30 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 7.1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1963-09-18 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| 1964-05-22 | LAA @ NYY Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1964-05-27 | MIN @ LAA Gameday | 5.2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 1964-05-15 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.