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Billy Smith

Billy Edward Smith

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: July 14, 1953 in Hodge, LA
High School: Jay HS (San Antonio, TX)
Drafted by the California Angels in the 3rd round of the 1971 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 1975
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Angels/Giants 1975-1981

Final Game: September 24, 1981
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1975 CAL AL 21 SS 50 41 33 374.1 191 80 98 13 19 .932 -12 -40 4.28 3.56 .959 4.85 4.84
1975 CAL AL 21 1B 6 0 0 15.2 16 15 1 0 0 1.000 1 69 9.19 2.67 .990 9.88 9.82
1975 CAL AL 21 DH 5 0
1975 CAL AL 21 3B 2 1 0 10.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 .950 3.15 3.15
1976 CAL AL 22 SS 10 0 0 17.0 8 0 5 3 1 .625 -2 -148 2.65 0.50 .968 4.98 5.01
1976 CAL AL 22 DH 2 0
1977 BAL AL 23 2B 104 92 77 837.0 537 260 272 5 78 .991 10 15 5.72 5.12 .978 5.42 5.38
1977 BAL AL 23 SS 5 0 0 8.0 4 1 2 1 0 .750 -1 -90 3.38 0.60 .962 4.84 4.80
1977 BAL AL 23 1B 2 0 0 4.0 4 3 0 1 0 .750 -1 -180 6.75 1.50 .990 10.12 9.95
1977 BAL AL 23 3B 1 8 4 4 0 2 1.000 8.00 .958 3.00
1978 BAL AL 24 2B 83 64 60 610.0 359 146 208 5 43 .986 5 9 5.22 4.27 .980 5.47 5.42
1978 BAL AL 24 SS 2 0 0 2.0 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 0 300 13.50 1.50 .963 4.95 4.85
1979 BAL AL 25 2B 63 52 34 440.0 254 107 142 5 33 .980 4 12 5.09 3.95 .978 5.50 5.43
1979 BAL AL 25 SS 5 2 2 20.0 12 1 9 2 2 .833 0 0 4.50 2.00 .965 5.00 4.96
1981 SFG NL 27 SS 21 11 6 106.0 68 27 39 2 9 .971 0 6 5.60 3.14 .960 5.10 5.12
1981 SFG NL 27 2B 5 1 1 18.0 11 3 8 0 1 1.000 0 7 5.50 2.20 .982 5.50 5.54
1981 SFG NL 27 3B 3 2 2 20.0 5 2 3 0 1 1.000 -1 -48 2.25 1.67 .948 2.84 2.87
4 Seasons 2B 255 209 172 1905.0 1161 516 630 15 155 .987 19 12 5.41 4.49 .979 5.46 5.41
6 Seasons SS 93 54 41 527.1 286 110 155 21 31 .927 -14 -32 4.52 2.85 .960 4.91 4.93
2 Seasons 1B 8 0 0 19.2 20 18 1 1 0 .950 0 18 8.69 2.38 .990 9.93 9.85
3 Seasons 3B 6 3 2 30.0 14 6 7 1 3 .929 -1 -52 1.50 2.17 .954 2.94 2.98
6 Seasons TOT 362 266 215 2482.0 1481 650 793 38 189 .974 4 2 5.20 3.99 .975 5.34 5.34
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1975 CAL AL 21 SS -12 -40 -12 -7 -5 -1
1975 CAL AL 21 1B 1 69 1 0 1 0
1975 CAL AL 21 3B -0 -60 -0 0 -0 0
1976 CAL AL 22 SS -2 -148 -2 -0 -2 0
1977 BAL AL 23 2B 10 15 8 6 2 2
1977 BAL AL 23 SS -1 -90 -1 -0 -0 0
1977 BAL AL 23 1B -1 -180 -1 -1 0 0
1977 BAL AL 23 3B
1978 BAL AL 24 2B 5 9 6 3 3 -1
1978 BAL AL 24 SS 0 300 0 0 0 0
1979 BAL AL 25 2B 4 12 3 2 1 1
1979 BAL AL 25 SS 0 0 0 -0 0 0
1981 SFG NL 27 SS 0 6 0 2 -1 0
1981 SFG NL 27 2B 0 7 0 0 -0 0
1981 SFG NL 27 3B -1 -48 -1 0 -1 0
4 Seasons 2B 19 12 17 11 6 2
6 Seasons SS -14 -32 -13 -6 -8 -1
2 Seasons 1B 0 18 0 -0 1 0
3 Seasons 3B -1 -52 -1 0 -1 0
6 Seasons TOT 4 2 3 5 -2 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1975 CAL AL 21 59 42 59 54 0 0 7 0 2 50 0 0 0 0 5 0 8
1976 CAL AL 22 13 0 13 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 2 4 4
1977 BAL AL 23 109 92 109 107 0 0 2 104 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 4
1978 BAL AL 24 85 64 85 84 0 0 0 83 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1979 BAL AL 25 68 54 68 67 0 0 0 63 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1981 SFG NL 27 36 14 36 27 0 0 0 5 3 21 0 0 0 0 0 13 2
6 Seasons 370 266 370 349 0 0 9 255 5 93 0 0 0 0 7 29 20
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1977 BAL AL 23 3500 67% 82% 28% 331 96% 1 266 94 124 49 277 227 41 0 4 5 1 4 0 2 81 27 16 21 5 74 27 46 6 5 1
1978 BAL AL 24 2509 56% 81% 29% 244 93% 1 143 45 70 28 208 180 24 0 6 5 0 5 0 3 43 14 8 12 1 37 14 22 4 2 2
1979 BAL AL 25 1822 59% 82% 27% 177 92% 0 106 40 46 20 141 120 17 0 0 6 1 5 0 5 32 11 5 7 4 29 12 16 2 1 1
1981 SFG NL 27 81 49% 85% 38% 7 100% 0 3 0 3 0 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
4 Seasons 7912 61% 81% 28% 759 94% 2 518 179 243 97 634 535 82 0 10 16 2 14 0 10 157 53 29 40 10 141 53 85 12 8 4
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1975 CAL AL 21 1603 66% 77% 24% 143 84% 0 84 35 30 19 100 77 19 0 3 13 1 11 1 11 19 6 1 4 4 2 18 7 11 0 0 0
1976 CAL AL 22 81 70% 89% 31% 10 50% 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 3 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1977 BAL AL 23 44 66% 89% 25% 2 100% 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 BAL AL 24 6 83% 83% 33% 3 100% 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 BAL AL 25 85 73% 88% 34% 13 69% 0 1 0 1 0 9 7 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
1981 SFG NL 27 455 62% 78% 27% 51 90% 0 29 14 13 2 38 29 9 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 9 4 0 5 0 0 9 4 5 0 0 0
6 Seasons 2274 66% 78% 25% 222 83% 0 116 50 45 21 156 119 33 0 3 21 2 18 1 17 31 12 2 9 4 2 30 14 16 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 91%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1975 CAL AL 21 69 75% 80% 32% 5 100% 0 15 1 14 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 BAL AL 23 15 53% 87% 27% 1 0% 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 84 71% 81% 31% 6 83% 0 18 1 17 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94% 87%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1975 CAL AL 21 49 45% 67% 14% 2 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 SFG NL 27 82 56% 82% 22% 5 100% 0 2 2 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 131 52% 76% 19% 7 71% 0 2 2 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 89% 67%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1977 AL  10 (4th)
Career  19 (72nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1977 AL  5.72 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1977 AL  .991 (1st)
1978 AL  .986 (3rd)

             

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