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Hal Smith

Harold Wayne Smith

Positions: Catcher and Third Baseman
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
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Orioles/Pirates/Colt.45's/Reds 1955-1964

Final Game: July 22, 1964
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1955 BAL AL 24 C 125 113 91 980.1 563 497 58 8 9 .986 -3 -4 5.10 4.44 .988 5.58 5.54 14 24 31 23 43% 47% 3
1956 TOT AL 25 C 108 95 81 832.4 556 496 55 5 14 .991 -3 -4 5.96 5.10 .988 5.91 5.86 6 25 43 23 35% 44% 3
1956 BAL AL 25 C 71 59 47 527.2 348 313 33 2 11 .994 -2 -5 5.90 4.87 .988 5.91 5.86 1 16 28 14 33% 44% 1
1956 KCA AL 25 C 37 36 34 304.2 208 183 22 3 3 .986 -1 -4 6.06 5.54 .988 5.91 5.86 5 9 15 9 38% 44% 2
1957 KCA AL 26 C 103 95 92 855.0 527 463 55 9 8 .983 -8 -11 5.45 5.03 .991 5.92 5.94 16 22 32 19 37% 47% 3
1958 KCA AL 27 3B 43 42 41 384.2 138 44 87 7 9 .949 -1 -3 3.06 3.05 .951 3.11 3.08
1958 KCA AL 27 C 31 29 25 258.0 169 149 19 1 4 .994 0 0 5.86 5.42 .990 6.01 5.95 9 7 3 9 75% 47% 1
1958 KCA AL 27 1B 14 14 13 125.1 126 120 6 0 6 1.000 1 6 9.05 9.00 .991 9.60 9.50
1959 KCA AL 28 3B 77 60 52 553.0 214 85 119 10 10 .953 -12 -27 3.32 2.65 .952 3.21 3.19
1959 KCA AL 28 C 22 18 18 169.0 140 125 10 5 5 .964 -1 -7 7.19 6.14 .989 6.08 6.04 3 7 5 4 44% 40% 1
1960 PIT NL 29 C 71 66 55 587.0 392 356 30 6 5 .985 -2 -4 5.92 5.44 .986 6.58 6.57 8 15 19 10 34% 40% 2
1961 PIT NL 30 C 65 55 42 481.1 311 290 18 3 1 .990 -1 -2 5.76 4.74 .985 6.39 6.32 8 19 14 6 30% 38% 2
1962 HOU NL 31 C 92 86 79 772.0 644 570 65 9 9 .986 -4 -6 7.40 6.90 .987 6.72 6.66 6 41 59 24 29% 34% 2
1962 HOU NL 31 3B 6 2 2 25.0 8 0 7 1 0 .875 1 34 2.52 1.17 .949 2.95 2.92
1962 HOU NL 31 1B 2 1 1 10.0 10 10 0 0 1 1.000 0 36 9.00 5.00 .990 9.81 9.70
1963 HOU NL 32 C 11 10 9 90.2 68 65 2 1 1 .985 -1 -13 6.65 6.09 .986 7.07 7.05 2 3 3 2 40% 42% 0
1964 CIN NL 33 C 20 18 14 160.2 115 105 8 2 1 .983 0 0 6.33 5.65 .988 6.81 6.76 2 4 7 5 42% 40% 0
10 Seasons C 648 585 506 5186.1 3485 3116 320 49 57 .986 -23 -5 5.96 5.30 .988 6.15 6.11 74 167 216 125 37% 42% 17
3 Seasons 3B 126 104 95 962.2 360 129 213 18 19 .950 -13 -16 3.20 2.71 .952 3.16 3.14
2 Seasons 1B 16 15 14 135.1 136 130 6 0 7 1.000 1 8 9.04 8.50 .991 9.62 9.52
10 Seasons TOT 790 704 615 6284.1 3981 3375 539 67 83 .983 -35 -7 5.61 4.95 .985 5.77 5.70 74 167 216 125 37% 42% 17
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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
1955 BAL AL 24 C -3 -4 -3
1956 BAL AL 25 C -2 -5 -2
1956 KCA AL 25 C -1 -4 -1
1957 KCA AL 26 C -8 -11 -8
1958 KCA AL 27 3B -1 -3 -1 2 -3 0
1958 KCA AL 27 C 0 0 0
1958 KCA AL 27 1B 1 6 1 2 -1 0
1959 KCA AL 28 3B -12 -27 -12 -5 -7 0
1959 KCA AL 28 C -1 -7 -1
1960 PIT NL 29 C -2 -4 -2
1961 PIT NL 30 C -1 -2 -1
1962 HOU NL 31 C -4 -6 -4
1962 HOU NL 31 3B 1 34 1 0 1 0
1962 HOU NL 31 1B 0 36 0 0 0 0
1963 HOU NL 32 C -1 -13 -1
1964 CIN NL 33 C 0 0 0
10 Seasons C -23 -5 -23
3 Seasons 3B -13 -16 -13 -3 -10 0
2 Seasons 1B 1 8 1 2 -1 0
10 Seasons TOT -35 -7 -12 -1 -11 0 -23

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1955 BAL AL 24 135 113 135 125 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1956 BAL AL 25 77 59 77 71 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1956 KCA AL 25 37 36 37 37 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 KCA AL 26 107 95 107 103 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1
1958 KCA AL 27 99 85 99 88 0 31 14 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1
1959 KCA AL 28 108 78 108 97 0 22 0 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1960 PIT NL 29 77 66 77 71 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1961 PIT NL 30 67 55 67 65 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1962 HOU NL 31 109 89 109 99 0 92 2 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
1963 HOU NL 32 31 10 31 11 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0
1964 CIN NL 33 32 18 32 20 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
10 Seasons 879 704 879 787 0 648 16 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 109 2
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 -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1955 BAL AL 24 4275 3.92 4.56 100 96% 0 0 490 68 2 30 390 56 14 3 2 7 7 0 6 1 4 9 0 1 3 14 86%
1956 BAL AL 25 2324 4.42 5.00 47 100% 0 0 316 38 4 17 257 33 4 0 1 7 2 0 0 2 0 11 0 1 4 3 100%
1956 KCA AL 25 1268 4.52 5.24 38 95% 0 1 169 27 2 8 132 22 5 0 0 3 3 1 1 1 0 3 0 1 1 5 80%
1957 KCA AL 26 3489 4.25 4.78 74 99% 0 0 445 59 3 17 366 47 11 0 1 6 9 0 5 4 1 7 0 0 2 5 100%
1958 KCA AL 27 1025 5.59 6.17 20 95% 0 0 139 13 3 5 118 19 5 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 2 2 5 100%
1959 KCA AL 28 769 5.55 6.24 15 100% 0 0 127 14 1 2 110 9 2 0 0 1 5 2 1 2 0 5 0 1 1 0
1960 PIT NL 29 2453 3.33 3.74 38 100% 0 2 355 28 2 15 310 31 7 0 0 7 6 0 0 6 0 5 0 1 1 5 100%
1961 PIT NL 30 2045 3.98 4.57 20 90% 0 1 291 13 1 4 273 18 3 0 0 3 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
1962 HOU NL 31 3256 3.99 4.43 55 89% 0 1 578 35 1 9 532 59 13 0 1 8 9 2 5 2 2 9 0 0 2 4 50%
1963 HOU NL 32 382 3.57 3.87 4 75% 0 0 65 3 1 1 60 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1964 CIN NL 33 662 2.69 2.97 11 100% 0 0 117 11 0 2 104 8 0 0 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
10 Seasons 21948 4.09 4.63 422 96% 0 5 3092 309 20 110 2652 304 64 5 5 46 48 5 23 20 7 56 0 7 16 46 89%
MLB Averages 3.84 4.34 95% 88%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1955 BAL AL 24 10 24 1752 31 23 22 43% 28 19 3 2 0 2 3 0 86 30 1.22 1.00
1956 BAL AL 25 1 16 906 28 14 13 33% 24 9 4 5 0 0 1 0 61 21 1.04 1.30
1956 KCA AL 25 5 9 496 15 9 8 38% 12 6 3 2 0 1 2 0 37 14 1.77 0.92
1957 KCA AL 26 17 22 1338 31 18 18 37% 27 15 4 3 0 0 3 0 94 32 1.30 1.24
1958 KCA AL 27 9 7 392 3 9 9 75% 2 8 1 0 0 1 1 0 32 10 1.10 1.32
1959 KCA AL 28 3 7 314 5 4 4 44% 5 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 20 6 0.63 1.11
1960 PIT NL 29 8 15 905 19 10 10 34% 18 7 1 2 0 1 2 0 59 15 1.06 1.07
1961 PIT NL 30 8 19 774 14 6 5 30% 12 5 2 0 0 1 2 0 55 15 1.22 0.90
1962 HOU NL 31 6 41 1217 59 24 22 29% 53 22 4 1 2 1 2 0 137 38 1.25 1.43
1963 HOU NL 32 2 3 143 3 2 2 40% 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 3 1.05 1.19
1964 CIN NL 33 2 4 251 7 5 5 42% 6 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 14 6 1.31 1.13
10 Seasons 71 167 8488 215 124 118 37% 190 101 22 16 3 7 17 0 607 190 1.23 1.18
MLB Averages 40% 1.19 1.17

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%
1958 KCA AL 27 1630 65% 82% 27% 140 86% 1 42 39 1 2 87 69 12 0 2 7 0 5 2 7 9 6 0 6 3 3 0 11 36%
1959 KCA AL 28 2411 71% 82% 27% 223 86% 1 86 76 3 7 118 90 24 0 4 10 0 6 4 8 10 8 0 8 2 2 0 19 37%
1962 HOU NL 31 103 50% 84% 38% 10 80% 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 4144 68% 82% 27% 373 86% 2 128 115 4 9 213 167 36 0 6 18 0 12 6 16 19 14 0 14 5 5 0 30 37%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 89% 60%

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%
1958 KCA AL 27 532 64% 80% 25% 31 100% 0 121 10 110 2 15 8 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1962 HOU NL 31 38 39% 74% 26% 2 100% 0 10 0 10 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 570 62% 79% 25% 33 100% 0 131 10 120 2 17 8 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 94% 85%

* 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1955 AL  125 (4th)
1956 AL  108 (5th)
1957 AL  103 (4th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1955 AL  497 (5th)
1956 AL  496 (5th)
1957 AL  463 (5th)
1962 NL  570 (4th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1955 AL  58 (3rd)
1956 AL  55 (2nd)
1957 AL  55 (3rd)
1962 NL  65 (2nd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1955 AL  8 (3rd)
1957 AL  9 (1st)
1962 NL  9 (3rd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1955 AL  14 (1st)
1956 AL  6 (4th)
1957 AL  16 (1st)
1958 AL  9 (5th)
1960 NL  8 (3rd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1955 AL  31 (2nd)
1956 AL  43 (1st)
1957 AL  32 (1st)
1962 NL  59 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1955 AL  23 (4th)
1956 AL  23 (3rd)
1962 NL  24 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1962 NL  7.40 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1962 NL  6.90 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1956 AL  .991 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1959 AL  3.32 (4th)

             

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