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Willie Smith
Willie Smith
Wonderful Willie

Bats: Left , Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0" , Weight: 190 lb.

Born: February 11, 1939 in Anniston, AL
High School: Carbon Hill (Carbon Hill, AL)
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1960. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 18, 1963
Final Game: September 28, 1971
Died: January 16, 2006 in Anniston, AL
About biographical information

Willie Smith
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Minors
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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
1963	24	DET	AL	17	8	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	-30	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1964	25	LAA	AL	118	373	359	46	108	14	6	11	51	7	5	8	39	.301	.317	.465	.782	125	167	8	2	1	3	1	791/8
1965	26	CAL	AL	136	498	459	52	120	14	9	14	57	9	8	32	60	.261	.308	.423	.731	109	194	5	1	1	5	10	*7/39
1966	27	CAL	AL	90	215	195	18	36	3	2	1	20	1	0	12	37	.185	.239	.236	.475	39	46	0	3	2	3	2	79
1967	28	CLE	AL	21	33	32	0	7	2	0	0	2	0	2	1	10	.219	.242	.281	.524	53	9	1	0	0	0	0	/73
1968	29	TOT	MLB	88	204	184	14	45	10	2	5	28	0	0	15	47	.245	.305	.402	.708	108	74	2	2	1	2	4	73/1
1968	29	CLE	AL	33	47	42	1	6	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	14	.143	.213	.190	.403	24	8	1	1	0	1	2	/317
1968	29	CHC	NL	55	157	142	13	39	8	2	5	25	0	0	12	33	.275	.333	.465	.798	132	66	1	1	1	1	2	7/31
1969	30	CHC	NL	103	223	195	21	48	9	1	9	25	1	0	25	49	.246	.330	.441	.771	104	86	3	0	2	1	3	73/9
1970	31	CHC	NL	87	182	167	15	36	9	1	5	24	2	1	11	32	.216	.267	.371	.638	62	62	2	1	2	1	0	3/7
1971	32	CIN	NL	31	58	55	3	9	2	0	1	4	0	0	3	9	.164	.207	.255	.461	33	14	4	0	0	0	0	3
9 Seasons				691	1794	1654	171	410	63	21	46	211	20	16	107	284	.248	.295	.395	.689	94	653	25	9	9	15	20
162 Game Avg.				162	421	388	40	96	15	5	11	49	5	4	25	67	.248	.295	.395	.689	94	153	6	2	2	4	5

CHC (3 yrs)				245	562	504	49	123	26	4	19	74	3	1	48	114	.244	.311	.425	.735	97	214	6	2	5	3	5
CAL (3 yrs)				344	1086	1013	116	264	31	17	26	128	17	13	52	136	.261	.298	.402	.699	101	407	13	6	4	11	13
CLE (2 yrs)				54	80	74	1	13	4	0	0	5	0	2	4	24	.176	.225	.230	.455	37	17	2	1	0	1	2
CIN (1 yr)				31	58	55	3	9	2	0	1	4	0	0	3	9	.164	.207	.255	.461	33	14	4	0	0	0	0
DET (1 yr)				17	8	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	-30	1	0	0	0	0	0

AL (6 yrs)				415	1174	1095	119	278	35	17	26	133	17	15	56	161	.254	.291	.388	.680	96	425	15	7	4	12	15
NL (4 yrs)				276	620	559	52	132	28	4	20	78	3	1	51	123	.236	.301	.408	.709	91	228	10	2	5	3	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
1963	24	DET	AL	8	7	0	0.0	97	.143	.125	.259	.125	.325	.125	.399	.250	.725	-30	.000	-1.4	-0.1	.143	.000	.000
1964	25	LAA	AL	373	268	49	4.9	87	.311	.301	.244	.317	.310	.465	.379	.782	.690	125	.568	9.9	1.0	.678	.192	.164	8.6
1965	26	CAL	AL	498	358	58	4.4	89	.272	.261	.247	.308	.317	.423	.379	.731	.696	109	.536	3.3	0.3	.648	.233	.161	11.0
1966	27	CAL	AL	215	164	12	2.0	87	.219	.185	.245	.239	.311	.236	.378	.475	.689	39	.222	-15.2	-1.6	.390	.118	.051	1.0
1967	28	CLE	AL	33	28	1	1.0	86	.318	.219	.245	.242	.315	.281	.368	.524	.683	53	.078	-1.9	-0.2	.286	.031	.063
1968	29	TOT	MLB	204	144	25	4.7	85	.299	.245	.254	.305	.316	.402	.362	.708	.678	108	.623	1.7	0.2	.645	.239	.158	.0
1968	29	CLE	AL	47	38	2	1.4	79	.207	.143	.237	.213	.306	.190	.351	.403	.656	24	.159	-3.7	-0.4	.324	.119	.048
1968	29	CHC	NL	157	106	23	5.9	87	.324	.275	.260	.333	.319	.465	.366	.798	.685	132	.713	5.4	0.6	.760	.275	.190	.0
1969	30	CHC	NL	223	153	29	5.1	105	.283	.246	.274	.330	.346	.441	.406	.771	.752	104	.589	0.9	0.1	.747	.328	.195	1.8
1970	31	CHC	NL	182	137	17	3.3	112	.237	.216	.280	.267	.354	.371	.427	.638	.781	62	.353	-10.1	-1.0	.560	.228	.156	2.9
1971	32	CIN	NL	58	50	2	1.1	88	.178	.164	.254	.207	.319	.255	.372	.461	.691	33	.081	-4.9	-0.5	.340	.145	.091	.0
9 Seasons				1794	1309	193	4.0	92	.272	.248	.254	.295	.322	.395	.385	.689	.707	94	.487	-17.8	-1.8	.602	.214	.147	27.9
162 Game Avg.				421	307	45	4.0	92	.272	.248	.254	.295	.322	.395	.385	.689	.707	94	.487	-17.8	-1.8	.602	.214	.147	7

CHC (3 yrs)				562	396	69	4.7	102	.278	.244	.272	.311	.341	.425	.402	.735	.743	97	.554	-3.9	-0.3	.686	.280	.181	5.2
CAL (3 yrs)				1086	790	119	4.1	88	.276	.261	.246	.298	.313	.402	.379	.699	.692	101	.498	-2.0	-0.3	.605	.196	.141	20.6
CLE (2 yrs)				80	66	3	1.2	82	.255	.176	.240	.225	.310	.230	.358	.455	.668	37	.122	-5.6	-0.6	.308	.081	.054
CIN (1 yr)				58	50	2	1.1	88	.178	.164	.254	.207	.319	.255	.372	.461	.691	33	.081	-4.9	-0.5	.340	.145	.091	.0
DET (1 yr)				8	7	0	0.0	97	.143	.125	.259	.125	.325	.125	.399	.250	.725	-30	.000	-1.4	-0.1	.143	.000	.000

AL (6 yrs)				1174	863	122	3.8	88	.274	.254	.245	.291	.313	.388	.377	.680	.691	96	.472	-9.1	-1.0	.579	.187	.134	20.6
NL (4 yrs)				620	446	71	4.3	101	.267	.236	.270	.301	.339	.408	.399	.709	.738	91	.514	-8.8	-0.8	.646	.267	.172	5.2

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%
1963	24	DET	AL	8	0.0%	12.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		8.0			0.75	88%
1964	25	LAA	AL	373	3.0%	10.5%	2.1%	8.3%	29%	4.88	9.2	32.6	7.0	0.92	84%
1965	26	CAL	AL	498	2.8%	12.1%	6.4%	7.4%	31%	1.88	7.7	32.8	8.1	1.02	78%
1966	27	CAL	AL	215	0.5%	17.2%	5.6%	2.8%	17%	3.08	5.3	195.0	9.8	0.50	74%
1967	28	CLE	AL	33	0.0%	30.3%	3.0%	6.1%	29%	10.00	3.2		16.0	0.78	67%
1968	29	TOT	MLB	204	2.5%	23.0%	7.4%	8.3%	38%	3.13	3.9	36.8	6.6	0.78	66%
1968	29	CLE	AL	47	0.0%	29.8%	6.4%	4.3%	33%	4.67	3.0		14.0	1.09	62%
1968	29	CHC	NL	157	3.2%	21.0%	7.6%	9.6%	39%	2.75	4.3	28.4	5.7	0.70	67%
1969	30	CHC	NL	223	4.0%	22.0%	11.2%	8.5%	40%	1.96	4.0	21.7	7.8	0.77	62%
1970	31	CHC	NL	182	2.8%	17.6%	6.0%	8.2%	42%	2.91	5.2	33.4	7.0	1.17	72%
1971	32	CIN	NL	58	1.7%	15.5%	5.2%	5.2%	33%	3.00	6.1	55.0	13.8	1.60	78%
9 Seasons				1794	2.6%	15.8%	6.0%	7.3%	32%	2.65	5.8	36.0	7.8	0.89	75%
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
1963	24	DET	AL	0	0	200%	12	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	33%	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
1964	25	LAA	AL	5	0	33%	141	7	5	58%	6	5	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	9	56%	22	11	11	5	1	4	7	3	4
1965	26	CAL	AL	9	0	27%	173	9	8	53%	9	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	8	8	60%	21	12	9	7	4	3	14	1	13
1966	27	CAL	AL	7	0	34%	63	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	59%	11	6	5	3	0	3	3	1	2
1967	28	CLE	AL	0	0	0%	6	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968	29	TOT	MLB	5	0	16%	52	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	2	27%	12	8	3	1	1	0	2	0	1
1968	29	CLE	AL	1	0	10%	3	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50%	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968	29	CHC	NL	4	0	17%	49	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	2	23%	10	7	2	1	1	0	2	0	1
1969	30	CHC	NL	4	0	19%	67	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	35%	10	8	2	1	0	1	6	2	3
1970	31	CHC	NL	4	0	23%	59	2	1	67%	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	82%	4	2	2	2	0	2	5	0	5
1971	32	CIN	NL	1	0	18%	11	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	50%	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
9 Seasons				35	0	26%	584	20	16	56%	18	15	2	1	0	0	6	0	23	32	53%	83	50	32	20	6	14	38	7	29
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
1963	24	DET	AL	8	100%	1			2	0	0	0	0.41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	0	0%	4	0	0%	6	0	0%	1	0	0%	2	0	0%	0
1964	25	LAA	AL	373	84%	108			23	10	0	3	1.63	11	1	8	11	0	6	5	0	4	1	25%	97	8	8%	37	11	30%	244	41	17%	22	11	50%	11	3	27%	0
1965	26	CAL	AL	498	85%	120			24	5	0	2	1.92	14	0	15	13	1	7	7	0	2	1	50%	103	5	5%	51	18	35%	343	47	14%	38	20	53%	37	14	38%	0
1966	27	CAL	AL	216	98%	36			40	5	0	4	1.89	1	0	5	1	0	0	1	0	2	2	100%	45	0	0%	24	7	29%	144	22	15%	15	8	53%	14	6	43%	0
1967	28	CLE	AL	33	94%	7			16	4	0	1	1.43	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		6	1	17%	4	0	0%	19	2	11%	2	0	0%	1	0	0%	0
1968	29	TOT	MLB	204	98%	45			36	10	0	5	2.01	5	0	6	5	0	3	2	0	1	1	100%	38	2	5%	16	4	25%	143	24	17%	10	4	40%	8	0	0%	0
1968	29	CLE	AL	47	94%	6			21	5	0	2	2.18	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		13	1	8%	5	2	40%	42	3	7%	2	1	50%	2	0	0%	0
1968	29	CHC	NL	157	99%	39			15	5	0	3	1.77	5	0	5	5	0	3	2	0	1	1	100%	25	1	4%	11	2	18%	101	21	21%	8	3	38%	6	0	0%	0
1969	30	CHC	NL	223	95%	48			40	12	3	12	1.76	9	0	5	9	0	6	3	0	3	2	67%	45	3	7%	23	7	30%	145	18	12%	10	4	40%	13	3	23%	0
1970	31	CHC	NL	182	90%	36			40	9	1	6	1.53	5	0	11	5	0	2	3	0	2	2	100%	42	2	5%	24	8	33%	126	20	16%	13	6	46%	6	4	67%	0
1971	32	CIN	NL	56	89%	9			19	0	0	0	1.79	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0		10	4	40%	5	1	20%	33	4	12%	2	0	0%	1	0	0%	2
9 Seasons				1793	90%	410			240	55	4	33	1.76	46	1	51	45	1	24	22	0	14	9	64%	388	25	6%	188	56	30%	1203	178	15%	113	53	47%	93	30	32%	2
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
1963	24	17	8	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	-30	1	0	0	0	0	0
1964	25	135	381	367	48	109	14	6	11	51	7	5	8	40	.297	.313	.458	.771	121	168	8	2	1	3	1
1965	26	271	879	826	100	229	28	15	25	108	16	13	40	100	.277	.310	.438	.748	114	362	13	3	2	8	11
1966	27	361	1094	1021	118	265	31	17	26	128	17	13	52	137	.260	.296	.400	.696	100	408	13	6	4	11	13
1967	28	382	1127	1053	118	272	33	17	26	130	17	15	53	147	.258	.295	.396	.691	99	417	14	6	4	11	13
1968	29	470	1331	1237	132	317	43	19	31	158	17	15	68	194	.256	.296	.397	.693	100	491	16	8	5	13	17
1969	30	573	1554	1432	153	365	52	20	40	183	18	15	93	243	.255	.301	.403	.704	101	577	19	8	7	14	20
1970	31	660	1736	1599	168	401	61	21	45	207	20	16	104	275	.251	.298	.400	.697	96	639	21	9	9	15	20
1971	32	691	1794	1654	171	410	63	21	46	211	20	16	107	284	.248	.295	.395	.689	94	653	25	9	9	15	20

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1963	24	17	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	17
1964	25	117	379	365	56	116	15	6	12	62	8	9	39	.318	.335	.490	.826	60	118
1965	26	136	508	468	61	129	15	10	15	66	10	34	60	.276	.323	.447	.769	68	136
1966	27	91	226	204	22	44	4	2	1	24	1	15	37	.216	.279	.270	.548	15	90
1967	28	21	33	32	0	7	2	0	0	3	0	1	10	.219	.242	.281	.524	2	21
1968	29	88	213	191	17	53	12	2	6	34	0	18	47	.277	.343	.455	.798	30	88
1969	30	103	219	194	20	47	9	1	9	24	1	24	49	.242	.324	.438	.762	28	103
1970	31	87	177	165	13	34	8	1	5	22	2	10	32	.206	.254	.358	.612	15	87
1971	32	31	55	53	3	7	2	0	1	4	0	2	9	.132	.164	.226	.390	2	31
9 Seasons		691	1818	1680	192	437	67	22	49	239	22	113	284	.260	.308	.414	.722	220	691
162 Game Avg.		162	426	394	45	102	16	5	11	56	5	26	67	.260	.308	.414	.722	52	691

* 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

Triples s c a p y
1964 AL--6--9th
1965 AL--9--4th

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1965 AL--10--9th

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1965 AL--8--6th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink Batting - 2 (2000), Average HOFer ≈ 144

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

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Manny Jimenez (971) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jim Northrup (971) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Mark Carreon (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Walt Bond (968) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jerald Clark (979) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jerald Clark (972) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
George Thomas (965) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Gray Ink	Batting - 2 (2000), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 2 (1849), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 4 (2826), Average HOFer ≈ 50