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Dave Smith

David Stanley Smith

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: January 21, 1955 in Richmond, CA
High School: Poway (Poway, CA)
School: San Diego State University
Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 8th round of the 1976 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1980
Teams (by GP): Astros/Cubs 1980-1992
Agents: Randy Hendricks,Alan Hendricks [*]
Final Game: June 8, 1992
Died: December 17, 2008 in San Diego, CA
Cremated
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 6, 2012, 8:19PM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #640. Hal Carlson… #641. Eric Show… #642. Mike Stanton… #643. DAVE SMITH… #644. Ricky Romero… #645. Bob Porterfield… #646. Carl Morton… 

Standard Pitching

More Stats

Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
1980 25 HOU NL 7 5 .583 1.93 57 0 35 0 0 10 102.2 90 24 22 1 32 7 85 4 1 3 422 171 1.188 7.9 0.1 2.8 7.5 2.66 RoY-5
1981 26 HOU NL 5 3 .625 2.76 42 0 22 0 0 8 75.0 54 26 23 2 23 4 52 2 0 4 305 120 1.027 6.5 0.2 2.8 6.2 2.26
1982 27 HOU NL 5 4 .556 3.84 49 1 29 0 0 11 63.1 69 30 27 4 31 4 28 0 4 2 286 87 1.579 9.8 0.6 4.4 4.0 0.90
1983 28 HOU NL 3 1 .750 3.10 42 0 24 0 0 6 72.2 72 32 25 2 36 4 41 0 1 1 323 110 1.486 8.9 0.2 4.5 5.1 1.14
1984 29 HOU NL 5 4 .556 2.21 53 0 24 0 0 5 77.1 60 22 19 5 20 3 45 1 1 1 304 150 1.034 7.0 0.6 2.3 5.2 2.25
1985 30 HOU NL 9 5 .643 2.27 64 0 46 0 0 27 79.1 69 26 20 3 17 5 40 1 1 4 315 153 1.084 7.8 0.3 1.9 4.5 2.35
1986 31 HOU NL 4 7 .364 2.73 54 0 51 0 0 33 56.0 39 17 17 5 22 3 46 1 0 2 223 132 1.089 6.3 0.8 3.5 7.4 2.09 AS,MVP-17
1987 32 HOU NL 2 3 .400 1.65 50 0 44 0 0 24 60.0 39 13 11 0 21 8 73 1 2 2 240 239 1.000 5.9 0.0 3.2 11.0 3.48
1988 33 HOU NL 4 5 .444 2.67 51 0 39 0 0 27 57.1 60 26 17 1 19 8 38 1 3 1 249 125 1.378 9.4 0.2 3.0 6.0 2.00
1989 34 HOU NL 3 4 .429 2.64 52 0 44 0 0 25 58.0 49 20 17 1 19 7 31 1 2 2 239 130 1.172 7.6 0.2 2.9 4.8 1.63
1990 35 HOU NL 6 6 .500 2.39 49 0 42 0 0 23 60.1 45 18 16 4 20 4 50 0 5 5 239 157 1.077 6.7 0.6 3.0 7.5 2.50 AS
1991 36 CHC NL 0 6 .000 6.00 35 0 28 0 0 17 33.0 39 22 22 6 19 5 16 1 1 1 151 65 1.758 10.6 1.6 5.2 4.4 0.84
1992 37 CHC NL 0 0 2.51 11 0 4 0 0 0 14.1 15 4 4 0 4 2 3 0 1 0 61 148 1.326 9.4 0.0 2.5 1.9 0.75
13 Seasons 53 53 .500 2.67 609 1 432 0 0 216 809.1 700 280 240 34 283 64 548 13 22 28 3357 130 1.215 7.8 0.4 3.1 6.1 1.94
162 Game Avg. 6 6 .500 2.67 68 0 48 0 0 24 90 78 31 27 4 32 7 61 1 2 3 374 130 1.215 7.8 0.4 3.1 6.1 1.94
HOU (11 yrs) 53 47 .530 2.53 563 1 400 0 0 199 762.0 646 254 214 28 260 57 529 12 20 27 3145 137 1.189 7.6 0.3 3.1 6.2 2.03
CHC (2 yrs) 0 6 .000 4.94 46 0 32 0 0 17 47.1 54 26 26 6 23 7 19 1 2 1 212 78 1.627 10.3 1.1 4.4 3.6 0.83

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg IP GS R Rrep Rdef aLI RAR WAR Salary Awards
1980 25 HOU NL 102.2 0 24 50 0 1.2 26 2.7 $ RoY-5
1981 26 HOU NL 75.0 0 26 36 1 1.2 10 0.7 $
1982 27 HOU NL 63.1 1 30 33 -1 1.4 3 -0.1 $
1983 28 HOU NL 72.2 0 32 36 2 .8 4 -0.1 $
1984 29 HOU NL 77.1 0 22 39 -1 1.1 17 1.5 $
1985 30 HOU NL 79.1 0 26 42 -2 2.0 16 1.9 $500,000
1986 31 HOU NL 56.0 0 17 29 1 2.1 12 1.4 $650,000 AS,MVP-17
1987 32 HOU NL 60.0 0 13 36 -1 1.9 23 2.9 $700,000
1988 33 HOU NL 57.1 0 26 30 -1 2.1 4 0.0 $1,100,000
1989 34 HOU NL 58.0 0 20 28 1 2.0 8 0.8 $1,100,000
1990 35 HOU NL 60.1 0 18 34 -1 1.8 16 1.8 $1,100,000 AS
1991 36 CHC NL 33.0 0 22 18 0 2.4 -4 -1.1 $1,900,000
1992 37 CHC NL 14.1 0 4 8 0 .5 4 0.2 $2,500,000
13 Seasons 809.1 1 280 419 -2 1.6 139 12.6 $9,550,000
HOU (11 yrs) 762.0 1 254 393 -2 1.5 139 13.5 $5,150,000
CHC (2 yrs) 47.1 0 26 26 0 1.8 0 -0.9 $4,400,000

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
1980 25 HOU NL NLCS L PHI 1 0 1.000 3.86 3 0 1 0 0 0 2.1 4 1 1 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 13 2.571 15.4 0.0 7.7 15.4 2.00
1981 26 HOU NL NLDS L LAD 0 0 3.86 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 2 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 9 0.857 7.7 0.0 0.0 15.4
1986 31 HOU NL NLCS L NYM 0 1 .000 9.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 2.0 2 2 2 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 11 2.500 9.0 4.5 13.5 9.0 0.67
3 Seasons (3 Series) 1 1 .500 5.40 7 0 2 0 0 0 6.2 8 4 4 1 5 3 10 0 0 0 33 1.950 10.8 1.4 6.8 13.5 2.00
1 NLDS 0 0 3.86 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 2 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 9 0.857 7.7 0.0 0.0 15.4
2 NLCS 1 1 .500 6.23 5 0 2 0 0 0 4.1 6 3 3 1 5 3 6 0 0 0 24 2.538 12.5 2.1 10.4 12.5 1.20

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1980 25 HOU NL 57 14 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 RoY-5
1981 26 HOU NL 42 8 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .250 .250 .250 .500 46 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
1982 27 HOU NL 49 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1983 28 HOU NL 42 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
1984 29 HOU NL 53 6 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 .000 .200 .000 .200 -37 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
1985 30 HOU NL 64 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 .000 .250 .000 .250 -23 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
1986 31 HOU NL 54 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS,MVP-17
1987 32 HOU NL 50 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .667 .500 1.167 222 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
1988 33 HOU NL 51 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
1989 34 HOU NL 52 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1990 35 HOU NL 49 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .333 .000 .333 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS
1991 36 CHC NL 35 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1992 37 CHC NL 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
13 Seasons 609 53 44 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 21 .068 .146 .068 .214 -37 3 1 0 5 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 14 12 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 .068 .146 .068 .214 -37 1 0 0 1 0 0
HOU (11 yrs) 563 52 43 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 21 .070 .149 .070 .219 -35 3 1 0 5 0 0
CHC (2 yrs) 46 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1980 25 HOU NL 14 -3 0 0 0 0 1 0 -2 -0.2 -2 -0.2 0.0 $ 1 RoY-5
1981 26 HOU NL 8 -1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $ 1
1982 27 HOU NL 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $200,000 1
1983 28 HOU NL 6 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ 1
1984 29 HOU NL 6 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ 1
1985 30 HOU NL 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $500,000 1
1986 31 HOU NL 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $650,000 1 AS,MVP-17
1987 32 HOU NL 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $700,000 1
1988 33 HOU NL 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $1,100,000 1
1989 34 HOU NL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $1,100,000 1
1990 35 HOU NL 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $1,100,000 1 AS
1991 36 CHC NL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $1,900,000 1
12 Seasons 53 -8 0 0 0 0 2 0 -6 -0.6 -6 -0.6 0.0 $7,250,000
HOU (11 yrs) 52 -8 0 0 0 0 2 0 -6 -0.6 -6 -0.6 0.0 $5,350,000
CHC (1 yr) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $1,900,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1980 25 HOU NL NLCS PHI L 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 26 HOU NL NLDS LAD L 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1986 31 HOU NL NLCS NYM L 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons (3 Series) 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLDS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 NLCS 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

More Stats

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% PO Awards
1980 HOU NL 25 P 57 102.2 15 3 11 1 0 .933 1.23 0.25 .952 1.91 1.91 RoY-5
1981 HOU NL 26 P 42 75.0 15 3 11 1 0 .933 1.68 0.33 .959 1.97 1.98
1982 HOU NL 27 P 49 63.1 12 3 7 2 2 .833 1.42 0.20 .952 1.96 1.97
1983 HOU NL 28 P 42 72.2 9 3 4 2 0 .778 0.87 0.17 .952 1.92 1.91
1984 HOU NL 29 P 53 77.1 15 5 9 1 1 .933 1.63 0.26 .954 1.87 1.87
1985 HOU NL 30 P 64 79.1 14 4 7 3 1 .786 1.25 0.17 .953 1.92 1.92
1986 HOU NL 31 P 54 56.0 13 7 6 0 0 1.000 2.09 0.24 .955 1.94 1.94 AS,MVP-17
1987 HOU NL 32 P 50 60.0 8 4 4 0 0 1.000 1.20 0.16 .955 1.90 1.90
1988 HOU NL 33 P 51 57.1 11 3 8 0 0 1.000 1.73 0.22 .955 1.96 1.96
1989 HOU NL 34 P 52 58.0 16 6 10 0 1 1.000 2.48 0.31 .947 1.88 1.87
1990 HOU NL 35 P 49 60.1 5 1 3 1 1 .800 0.60 0.08 .956 1.80 1.79 AS
1991 CHC NL 36 P 35 33.0 5 0 5 0 0 1.000 1.36 0.14 .956 1.85 1.85
1992 CHC NL 37 P 11 14.1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 1.26 0.18 .955 1.95 1.94
13 Seasons P 609 809.1 140 42 87 11 6 .921 1.43 0.21 .953 1.91 1.91
13 Seasons TOT 609 809.1 140 42 87 11 6 .921 1.43 0.21 .953 1.91 1.91
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1986
1990 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1986 NL (17, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1498th)

Games Played s c a p y
1985 NL  64 (9th)
Career  609 (180th)

Saves s c a p y
1985 NL  27 (3rd)
1986 NL  33 (3rd)
1987 NL  24 (6th)
1988 NL  27 (6th)
1989 NL  25 (7th)
1990 NL  23 (4th)
1991 NL  17 (7th)
Career  216 (40th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1980 NL  4 (10th)

Games Finished s c a p y
1985 NL  46 (5th)
1986 NL  51 (6th)
1987 NL  44 (7th)
1988 NL  39 (9th)
1989 NL  44 (9th)
1990 NL  42 (7th)
Career  432 (46th)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
1980 NL  17 (8th)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
1980 NL  1.9 (9th)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
Career  75.41 (248th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1985 NL  3.8 (6th)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
Career  7.3 (217th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
Career  8.3 (240th)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
1988 NL  1.000 (1st)
1989 NL  1.000 (1st)
1991 NL  1.000 (1st)

                                         

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkPitching - 22 (1008), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 39 (347), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 15 (500), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Transactions

  • June 8, 1976: Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 8th round of the 1976 amateur draft.
  • November 9, 1987: Granted Free Agency.
  • January 8, 1988: Signed as a Free Agent with the Houston Astros.
  • December 7, 1990: Granted Free Agency.
  • December 17, 1990: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs.
  • October 26, 1992: Granted Free Agency.
  • January 8, 1993: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
198227Houston Astros$200,0002/27/82 TSN
198530Houston Astros$500,0001985 USA Today survey
198631Houston Astros$650,0001986 USA Today survey
198732Houston Astros$700,0001987 USA Today survey
198833Houston Astros$1,100,000USA Today, 4/1/88
198934Houston Astros$1,100,0001989 USA Today survey
199035Houston Astros$1,100,000USA Today
199136Chicago Cubs$1,900,000USA Today survey
199237Chicago Cubs$2,500,0004/2/92 USA Today
199338Chicago Cubs$250,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$10,000,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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