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Hal Smith
Harold Wayne Smith

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0" , Weight: 195 lb.

Born: December 7, 1930 in West Frankfort, IL
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1955
Final Game: July 22, 1964
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Hal Smith
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Standard Batting

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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
1955	24	BAL	AL	135	466	424	41	115	23	4	4	52	1	3	30	21	.271	.318	.373	.691	93	158	16	2	4	6	2	*2
1956	25	TOT	AL	114	398	371	31	99	23	2	5	42	2	1	20	34	.267	.303	.380	.683	84	141	18	1	2	4	3	*2
1956	25	BAL	AL	77	250	229	16	60	14	0	3	18	1	0	17	22	.262	.315	.362	.677	85	83	16	1	2	1	3	2
1956	25	KCA	AL	37	148	142	15	39	9	2	2	24	1	1	3	12	.275	.284	.408	.692	81	58	2	0	0	3	0	2
1957	26	KCA	AL	107	383	360	41	109	26	0	13	41	2	2	14	44	.303	.328	.483	.811	119	174	13	1	5	3	0	*2
1958	27	KCA	AL	99	351	315	32	86	19	2	5	46	0	0	25	47	.273	.323	.394	.717	95	124	6	2	1	8	2	523
1959	28	KCA	AL	108	332	292	36	84	12	0	5	31	0	3	34	39	.288	.367	.380	.747	104	111	4	3	2	1	0	52
1960	29	PIT	NL	77	286	258	37	76	18	2	11	45	1	1	22	48	.295	.351	.508	.859	131	131	6	2	1	3	0	2
1961	30	PIT	NL	67	208	193	12	43	10	0	3	26	0	0	11	38	.223	.267	.321	.588	55	62	6	1	2	1	1	2
1962	31	HOU	NL	109	376	345	32	81	14	0	12	35	0	0	24	55	.235	.286	.380	.666	83	131	13	2	2	3	1	2/53
1963	32	HOU	NL	31	62	58	1	14	2	0	0	2	0	0	4	15	.241	.290	.276	.566	69	16	4	0	0	0	1	2
1964	33	CIN	NL	32	79	66	6	8	1	0	0	3	1	0	12	20	.121	.256	.136	.393	13	9	6	0	1	0	2	2
10 Seasons				879	2941	2682	269	715	148	10	58	323	7	10	196	361	.267	.317	.394	.711	94	1057	92	14	20	29	12
162 Game Avg.				162	542	494	50	132	27	2	11	60	1	2	36	67	.267	.317	.394	.711	94	195	17	3	4	5	2

KCA (4 yrs)				351	1214	1109	124	318	66	4	25	142	3	6	76	142	.287	.332	.421	.753	104	467	25	6	8	15	2
PIT (2 yrs)				144	494	451	49	119	28	2	14	71	1	1	33	86	.264	.316	.428	.744	98	193	12	3	3	4	1
HOU (2 yrs)				140	438	403	33	95	16	0	12	37	0	0	28	70	.236	.287	.365	.651	81	147	17	2	2	3	2
BAL (2 yrs)				212	716	653	57	175	37	4	7	70	2	3	47	43	.268	.317	.369	.686	90	241	32	3	6	7	5
CIN (1 yr)				32	79	66	6	8	1	0	0	3	1	0	12	20	.121	.256	.136	.393	13	9	6	0	1	0	2

AL (5 yrs)				563	1930	1762	181	493	103	8	32	212	5	9	123	185	.280	.326	.402	.728	99	708	57	9	14	22	7
NL (5 yrs)				316	1011	920	88	222	45	2	26	111	2	1	73	176	.241	.299	.379	.678	85	349	35	5	6	7	5

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1955	24	BAL	AL	466	338	47	3.7	95	.274	.271	.257	.318	.335	.373	.382	.691	.717	93	.406	-4.0	-0.4	.573	.167	.101	1.6
1956	25	TOT	AL	398	297	38	3.4	102	.280	.267	.261	.303	.342	.380	.399	.683	.741	84	.350	-8.9	-0.8	.560	.170	.113	2.9
1956	25	BAL	AL	250	188	22	3.1	99	.278	.262	.258	.315	.338	.362	.393	.677	.731	85	.313	-4.5	-0.4	.551	.179	.100	1.5
1956	25	KCA	AL	148	109	16	3.9	106	.282	.275	.267	.284	.349	.408	.408	.692	.757	81	.409	-4.5	-0.4	.575	.155	.134	1.3
1957	26	KCA	AL	383	274	52	5.1	100	.314	.303	.264	.328	.336	.483	.399	.811	.735	119	.571	8.0	0.8	.711	.219	.181	3.5
1958	27	KCA	AL	351	244	41	4.5	100	.299	.273	.264	.323	.333	.394	.401	.717	.734	95	.521	-1.3	-0.1	.643	.200	.121	.0
1959	28	KCA	AL	332	218	42	5.2	100	.317	.288	.263	.367	.334	.380	.401	.747	.736	104	.574	2.8	0.3	.674	.199	.092	.0
1960	29	PIT	NL	286	193	45	6.3	100	.322	.295	.264	.351	.330	.508	.406	.859	.736	131	.660	11.2	1.1	.820	.298	.213	1.8
1961	30	PIT	NL	208	159	16	2.7	106	.261	.223	.271	.267	.338	.321	.422	.588	.760	55	.268	-12.7	-1.3	.474	.155	.098	.0
1962	31	HOU	NL	376	282	35	3.3	97	.246	.235	.261	.286	.328	.380	.397	.666	.724	83	.359	-8.3	-0.8	.567	.214	.145	.0
1963	32	HOU	NL	62	48	4	2.2	84	.326	.241	.247	.290	.308	.276	.370	.566	.678	69	.265	-2.2	-0.2	.417	.103	.034
1964	33	CIN	NL	79	65	2	0.8	96	.174	.121	.267	.256	.325	.136	.396	.393	.721	13	.051	-7.5	-0.8	.344	.212	.015	.0
10 Seasons				2941	2118	322	4.1	99	.287	.267	.262	.317	.334	.394	.398	.711	.732	94	.456	-23.0	-2.2	.611	.199	.128	12.5
162 Game Avg.				542	390	59	4.1	99	.287	.267	.262	.317	.334	.394	.398	.711	.732	94	.456	-23.0	-2.2	.611	.199	.128	2

KCA (4 yrs)				1214	845	151	4.8	101	.306	.287	.264	.332	.336	.421	.401	.753	.738	104	.538	5.0	0.6	.664	.200	.134	5.4
PIT (2 yrs)				494	352	61	4.7	103	.296	.264	.267	.316	.333	.428	.413	.744	.746	98	.516	-1.5	-0.2	.664	.237	.164	1.9
HOU (2 yrs)				438	330	39	3.2	95	.256	.236	.259	.287	.325	.365	.393	.651	.718	81	.347	-10.5	-1.0	.545	.199	.129	.0
BAL (2 yrs)				716	526	69	3.5	97	.275	.268	.257	.317	.336	.369	.386	.686	.722	90	.373	-8.5	-0.8	.565	.172	.101	3.1
CIN (1 yr)				79	65	2	0.8	96	.174	.121	.267	.256	.325	.136	.396	.393	.721	13	.051	-7.5	-0.8	.344	.212	.015	.0

AL (5 yrs)				1930	1371	220	4.3	99	.294	.280	.261	.326	.336	.402	.396	.728	.732	99	.479	-3.5	-0.2	.626	.190	.122	8.6
NL (5 yrs)				1011	747	102	3.7	99	.270	.241	.264	.299	.329	.379	.403	.678	.732	85	.412	-19.5	-2.0	.583	.218	.138	3.7

Postseason Batting

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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
1960	29	PIT	NL	WS	NYY	W	3	8	8	1	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	.375	.375	.750	1.125	6	2	0	0	0	0
1 WS							3	8	8	1	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	.375	.375	.750	1.125	6	2	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1955	24	BAL	AL	466	0.9%	4.5%	6.4%	6.7%	27%	0.70	20.2	106.0	8.2	0.83	87%
1956	25	TOT	AL	398	1.3%	8.5%	5.0%	7.5%	30%	1.70	10.9	74.2	8.8	1.04	84%
1956	25	BAL	AL	250	1.2%	8.8%	6.8%	6.8%	28%	1.29	10.4	76.3	12.7	1.14	82%
1956	25	KCA	AL	148	1.4%	8.1%	2.0%	8.8%	33%	4.00	11.8	71.0	5.9	0.87	89%
1957	26	KCA	AL	383	3.4%	11.5%	3.7%	10.2%	36%	3.14	8.2	27.7	8.8	0.90	80%
1958	27	KCA	AL	351	1.4%	13.4%	7.1%	7.4%	30%	1.88	6.7	63.0	6.8	0.87	77%
1959	28	KCA	AL	332	1.5%	11.8%	10.2%	5.1%	20%	1.15	7.5	58.4	9.4	0.99	75%
1960	29	PIT	NL	286	3.9%	16.8%	7.7%	10.8%	41%	2.18	5.4	23.5	5.7	0.92	71%
1961	30	PIT	NL	208	1.4%	18.3%	5.3%	6.3%	30%	3.45	5.1	64.3	7.4	1.09	74%
1962	31	HOU	NL	376	3.2%	14.6%	6.4%	6.9%	32%	2.29	6.3	28.8	9.9	0.99	75%
1963	32	HOU	NL	62	0.0%	24.2%	6.5%	3.2%	14%	3.75	3.9		29.0	1.36	69%
1964	33	CIN	NL	79	0.0%	25.3%	15.2%	1.3%	13%	1.67	3.3		22.0	1.15	58%
10 Seasons				2941	2.0%	12.3%	6.7%	7.3%	30%	1.84	7.4	46.2	8.3	0.95	78%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1955	24	BAL	AL	6	0	26%	162	1	3	25%	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	4	46%	19	13	6	6	4	2	19	7	12
1956	25	TOT	AL	6	0	23%	150	2	1	67%	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	6	43%	15	11	4	6	4	2	9	1	7
1956	25	BAL	AL	3	0	17%	103	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	4	31%	9	8	1	1	1	0	6	1	4
1956	25	KCA	AL	3	0	33%	47	1	1	50%	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	57%	6	3	3	5	3	2	3	0	3
1957	26	KCA	AL	5	0	25%	137	2	2	50%	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	6	60%	12	8	3	1	0	1	12	1	11
1958	27	KCA	AL	2	0	25%	137	0	0		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	53%	19	11	8	5	3	2	12	3	9
1959	28	KCA	AL	3	0	27%	136	0	3	0%	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	5	37%	24	19	5	6	3	3	8	1	6
1960	29	PIT	NL	2	0	29%	94	1	1	50%	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	7	23%	17	14	2	3	2	1	10	5	4
1961	30	PIT	NL	1	0	17%	61	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	25%	9	8	1	3	3	0	4	1	3
1962	31	HOU	NL	4	0	21%	124	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	31%	13	12	1	6	2	4	10	5	4
1963	32	HOU	NL	1	0	6%	29	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0%	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1964	33	CIN	NL	2	0	30%	19	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	33%	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
10 Seasons				32	0	24%	1049	7	10	41%	5	10	1	1	0	2	2	1	38	44	40%	135	103	30	37	22	15	86	24	58
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1955	24	BAL	AL	466	45%	115			11	4	0	1	1.31	4	0	15	1	3	0	4	0	4	4	100%	107	16	15%	48	18	38%	319	49	15%	29	18	62%	19	6	32%	0
1956	25	TOT	AL	390	40%	99			8	0	0	0	1.22	5	0	13	4	1	2	3	0	2	2	100%	81	18	22%	48	18	38%	266	39	15%	29	17	59%	25	13	52%	8
1956	25	BAL	AL	250	42%	60			8	0	0	0	1.22	3	0	7	2	1	1	2	0	2	2	100%	52	16	31%	30	9	30%	161	17	11%	14	5	36%	15	6	40%	0
1956	25	KCA	AL	140	36%	39			0	0	0	0		2	0	6	2	0	1	1	0	0	0		29	2	7%	18	9	50%	105	22	21%	15	12	80%	10	7	70%	8
1957	26	KCA	AL	357	15%	109			7	1	0	0	1.25	13	1	6	11	1	7	5	0	5	5	100%	64	13	20%	32	12	38%	184	30	16%	19	9	47%	22	9	41%	26
1958	27	KCA	AL	340	21%	86			10	5	0	1	1.93	5	0	13	3	2	3	2	0	0	1		75	6	8%	46	15	33%	253	42	17%	32	16	50%	21	5	24%	12
1959	28	KCA	AL	328	27%	84			11	4	0	1	2.00	5	0	6	4	1	1	4	0	2	2	100%	66	4	6%	27	12	44%	184	28	15%	18	10	56%	19	6	32%	3
1960	29	PIT	NL	283	51%	76			6	2	1	2	3.44	11	0	13	4	7	3	8	0	1	1	100%	58	6	10%	28	13	46%	195	35	18%	17	8	47%	7	4	57%	3
1961	30	PIT	NL	205	57%	43			2	1	0	1	1.38	3	0	5	1	2	1	2	0	2	2	100%	48	6	13%	22	8	36%	144	25	17%	18	9	50%	12	5	42%	3
1962	31	HOU	NL	376	30%	81			15	4	1	2	1.88	12	0	12	9	3	5	7	0	2	2	100%	79	13	16%	41	8	20%	238	26	11%	20	6	30%	14	4	29%	0
1963	32	HOU	NL	62	40%	14			20	3	0	0	1.90	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		16	4	25%	8	1	13%	44	3	7%	5	1	20%	6	2	33%	0
1964	33	CIN	NL	78	41%	8			12	2	0	1	2.81	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	20	6	30%	11	0	0%	61	3	5%	6	0	0%	5	2	40%	0
10 Seasons				2885	35%	715			102	26	2	9	1.94	58	1	88	37	20	22	35	0	19	20	105%	614	92	15%	311	105	34%	1888	280	15%	193	94	49%	150	56	37%	55
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1955	24	135	466	424	41	115	23	4	4	52	1	3	30	21	.271	.318	.373	.691	93	158	16	2	4	6	2
1956	25	249	864	795	72	214	46	6	9	94	3	4	50	55	.269	.311	.376	.687	88	299	34	3	6	10	5
1957	26	356	1247	1155	113	323	72	6	22	135	5	6	64	99	.280	.316	.410	.726	98	473	47	4	11	13	5
1958	27	455	1598	1470	145	409	91	8	27	181	5	6	89	146	.278	.318	.406	.724	97	597	53	6	12	21	7
1959	28	563	1930	1762	181	493	103	8	32	212	5	9	123	185	.280	.326	.402	.728	99	708	57	9	14	22	7
1960	29	640	2216	2020	218	569	121	10	43	257	6	10	145	233	.282	.329	.415	.745	103	839	63	11	15	25	7
1961	30	707	2424	2213	230	612	131	10	46	283	6	10	156	271	.277	.324	.407	.731	99	901	69	12	17	26	8
1962	31	816	2800	2558	262	693	145	10	58	318	6	10	180	326	.271	.319	.403	.722	97	1032	82	14	19	29	9
1963	32	847	2862	2616	263	707	147	10	58	320	6	10	184	341	.270	.318	.401	.719	96	1048	86	14	19	29	10
1964	33	879	2941	2682	269	715	148	10	58	323	7	10	196	361	.267	.317	.394	.711	94	1057	92	14	20	29	12

Neutralized Batting

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average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1955	24	141	484	444	46	121	24	4	4	59	1	32	22	.273	.320	.372	.692	53	135
1956	25	119	404	380	32	96	22	2	5	44	2	19	36	.253	.287	.361	.648	40	114
1957	26	113	393	375	45	111	26	0	13	45	2	14	46	.296	.321	.469	.790	57	107
1958	27	103	369	332	35	93	21	2	5	50	0	27	49	.280	.331	.401	.731	45	99
1959	28	113	347	307	38	90	13	0	5	32	0	36	41	.293	.372	.384	.756	44	108
1960	29	80	299	271	40	81	19	2	12	49	1	23	50	.299	.355	.517	.871	49	77
1961	30	70	213	200	12	43	10	0	3	26	0	11	40	.215	.258	.310	.568	16	67
1962	31	109	374	345	34	81	14	0	12	37	0	24	55	.235	.286	.380	.666	37	109
1963	32	31	63	59	1	15	2	0	0	3	0	4	15	.254	.302	.288	.590	5	31
1964	33	32	75	65	5	7	1	0	0	3	1	10	20	.108	.227	.123	.350	2	32
10 Seasons		911	3021	2778	288	738	152	10	59	348	7	200	374	.266	.315	.391	.706	348	879
162 Game Avg.		162	537	494	51	131	27	2	10	62	1	36	67	.266	.315	.391	.706	62	879

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1958 AL--8--3rd

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1955 AL--16--10th
1956 AL--18--7th

AB per SO s c a p y
1955 AL--20.190--5th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Monitor Batting - 2 (1849), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 4 (2826), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Batters

Compare Stats to Similars

Most Similar by Ages

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Terry Kennedy (986) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Harry Danning (983) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Slaught (989) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Alex Cintron (980) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Slaught (980) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Slaught (974) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Slaught (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Slaught (964) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Pat Borders (968) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Other Resources & Links

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Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 2 (1849), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 4 (2826), Average HOFer ≈ 50