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Dick Smith

Richard Harrison Smith

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: July 21, 1927 in Blandburg, PA
School: Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania (Lock Haven, PA)
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1951
Team: Pirates 1951-1955

Final Game: May 1, 1955
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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
1951 PIT NL 23 3B 12 12 11 107.0 47 14 30 3 6 .936 3.70 3.67 .953 3.37 3.36
1952 PIT NL 24 3B 16 11 9 106.0 48 16 30 2 3 .958 3.91 2.88 .954 3.15 3.12
1952 PIT NL 24 2B 4 2 2 19.2 9 3 6 0 1 1.000 4.12 2.25 .976 5.49 5.42
1952 PIT NL 24 SS 4 2 2 26.0 20 5 14 1 4 .950 6.58 4.75 .960 5.05 5.00
1953 PIT NL 25 SS 13 13 11 109.0 77 18 56 3 10 .961 2 20 6.11 5.69 .958 5.04 4.94
1954 PIT NL 26 3B 9 7 6 67.0 30 7 21 2 3 .933 3 52 3.76 3.11 .952 3.17 3.16
1955 PIT NL 27 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.00
3 Seasons 3B 37 30 26 280.0 125 37 81 7 12 .944 3 12 3.79 3.19 .953 3.24 3.21
3 Seasons SS 18 15 13 136.0 97 23 70 4 14 .959 2 16 6.15 5.17 .958 5.04 4.96
1 Season 2B 4 2 2 19.2 9 3 6 0 1 1.000 4.12 2.25 .976 5.49 5.42
5 Seasons TOT 59 47 41 435.2 231 63 157 11 27 .952 5 13 4.54 3.73 .956 3.90 3.89
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
1951 PIT NL 23 3B
1952 PIT NL 24 3B
1952 PIT NL 24 2B
1952 PIT NL 24 SS
1953 PIT NL 25 SS 2 20 2 0 2 0
1954 PIT NL 26 3B 3 52 3 1 2 0
1955 PIT NL 27 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 3B 3 12 3 1 2 0
3 Seasons SS 2 16 2 0 2 0
1 Season 2B
5 Seasons TOT 5 13 5 1 4 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1951 PIT NL 23 12 12 12 12 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 PIT NL 24 29 15 29 22 0 0 0 4 16 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 7
1953 PIT NL 25 13 13 13 13 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 PIT NL 26 12 7 12 9 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1955 PIT NL 27 4 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Seasons 70 47 70 57 0 0 0 4 37 18 0 0 0 0 0 6 10
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 -- 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%
1951 PIT NL 23 270 73% 81% 27% 21 86% 0 7 3 2 2 15 13 2 0 1 3 0 2 1 2 3 0 1 1 2 0 2 0
1952 PIT NL 24 283 64% 76% 27% 19 95% 0 9 3 2 4 14 12 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1954 PIT NL 26 292 58% 84% 30% 32 84% 0 7 6 0 1 21 15 7 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 3 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 845 65% 80% 28% 72 88% 0 23 12 4 7 50 40 11 0 2 6 0 4 2 4 8 3 1 5 2 0 2 0
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 89% 64%

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
1952 PIT NL 24 72 60% 88% 38% 8 100% 0 4 2 2 0 7 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0
1953 PIT NL 25 284 68% 86% 30% 38 95% 0 10 4 5 1 36 24 11 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 9 5 0 2 1 0 9 5 3 0 0 0
1955 PIT NL 27 3 67% 100% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 359 67% 86% 31% 46 96% 0 14 6 7 1 43 29 13 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 12 7 0 3 1 0 12 7 4 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 90%

* 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 3B s c a p y
1954 NL  3 (2nd)

                                         

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