MLB / Players

Willie Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 173 lb
BornApril 19, 1915 · Boswell, AL, USA
Seasons1 (1948–1948)

Homestead Grays 1948

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
-0.7
10.8

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
1948910100100000000.100.100.100.200-43.8-42.1.095-0.7

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
194892110003618157125.76.311.9872.454.99140.556.2-0.7

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

G
9
PA
10
AB
10
R
0
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.1000
OBP
.1000
SLG
.1000
OPS
.2000

Pitching

G (P)
9
GS
2
W
1
L
1
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
26
SO (P)
7
BB allowed
15
ERA
6.312
WHIP
1.9870
K/9
2.45

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.