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Career Summary

Years	PA	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	WARP
19	10778	.262	.337	.328	88	59.4

Birth Date	12-26-1954
Height	5' 11"
Weight	150 lbs

Age	69 years, 3 months, 29 days
Bats	B
Throws	R

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MLB Statistics

YEAR	TEAM	AGE	G	PA	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	HBP	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	DRAA	BRR	FRAA	BWARP
1978	SDN	23	159	668	152	17	6	1	47	43	0	40	12	.258	.311	.312	72	-18.5	3.6	17.5	3.1
1979	SDN	24	156	649	124	18	6	0	37	37	2	28	7	.211	.260	.262	53	-34.4	7.7	27.3	2.8
1980	SDN	25	158	712	140	18	5	0	71	49	5	57	15	.230	.313	.276	75	-18.8	4.6	21.9	3.8
1981	SDN	26	110	507	100	11	2	0	41	37	5	22	12	.222	.294	.256	67	-18.0	2.4	10.0	1.5
1982	SLN	27	140	567	121	24	1	2	68	32	2	25	5	.248	.339	.314	89	-5.8	6.3	17.5	4.3
1983	SLN	28	159	626	134	30	6	3	64	36	1	34	7	.243	.321	.335	82	-12.4	4.5	19.3	3.8
1984	SLN	29	124	484	106	20	5	1	56	17	2	35	7	.257	.347	.337	99	0.8	5.0	7.6	3.5
1985	SLN	30	158	615	148	22	3	6	65	27	2	31	8	.276	.355	.361	102	3.7	3.8	14.7	4.9
1986	SLN	31	153	609	144	19	4	0	79	27	2	31	7	.280	.376	.333	97	-1.0	7.1	8.6	4.1
1987	SLN	32	158	706	182	40	4	0	89	36	1	43	9	.303	.392	.383	106	5.8	5.2	10.6	5.2
1988	SLN	33	153	669	155	27	1	3	74	43	1	57	9	.270	.350	.336	96	-2.4	3.7	19.3	5.0
1989	SLN	34	155	664	162	30	8	2	55	37	2	29	7	.273	.335	.361	95	-2.4	5.8	5.1	3.7
1990	SLN	35	143	592	130	21	1	1	61	33	2	32	6	.254	.330	.305	83	-11.0	3.1	-7.7	0.8
1991	SLN	36	150	641	157	30	3	3	83	36	1	35	9	.285	.380	.367	110	8.5	7.4	-10.0	3.3
1992	SLN	37	132	590	153	20	2	0	59	34	0	43	9	.295	.367	.342	103	4.1	2.6	10.6	4.3
1993	SLN	38	141	603	157	22	6	1	43	18	1	21	8	.288	.337	.356	87	-7.8	-0.2	6.2	2.4
1994	SLN	39	98	433	100	18	3	3	38	26	0	6	3	.262	.326	.349	80	-9.9	1.5	2.7	1.3
1995	SLN	40	44	182	31	5	1	0	17	12	2	4	3	.199	.282	.244	67	-7.2	0.0	2.5	0.3
1996	SLN	41	82	261	64	10	2	2	25	9	2	7	5	.282	.358	.370	90	-2.3	-0.9	5.1	1.3
Career			2573	10778	2460	402	69	28	1072	589	33	580	148	.262	.337	.328	88	-129.0	73.3	188.8	59.4

Statistics for All Levels

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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	PA	oppAVG	oppOBP	oppSLG	BABIP	BPF	BRAA	repLVL	POS_ADJ	DRC+	DRC+ SD	FRAA	BRR	DRAA	BWARP
1978	SDN	MLB	NL	159	668	.254	.317	.371	.275	95	-14	17.4	8	72	8	17.5	3.6	-18.5	3.1
1979	SDN	MLB	NL	156	649	.260	.319	.383	.225	94	-38	18.2	8.4	53	8	27.3	7.7	-34.4	2.8
1980	SDN	MLB	NL	158	712	.259	.317	.377	.248	96	-21.8	19.1	8.8	75	8	21.9	4.6	-18.8	3.8
1981	SDN	MLB	NL	110	507	.252	.311	.358	.242	99	-20.1	12.8	5.9	67	10	10.0	2.4	-18.0	1.5
1982	SLN	MLB	NL	140	567	.260	.316	.375	.259	99	-9.6	15.3	7	89	11	17.5	6.3	-5.8	4.3
1983	SLN	MLB	NL	159	626	.258	.319	.378	.254	100	-9.8	17.0	7.8	82	9	19.3	4.5	-12.4	3.8
1984	SLN	MLB	NL	124	484	.255	.314	.366	.264	94	1.6	13.0	6	99	8	7.6	5.0	0.8	3.5
1985	SLN	MLB	NL	158	615	.255	.318	.380	.281	92	3.2	16.8	7.7	102	7	14.7	3.8	3.7	4.9
1986	SLN	MLB	NL	153	609	.256	.320	.381	.294	96	4.4	16.9	7.6	97	11	8.6	7.1	-1.0	4.1
1987	SLN	MLB	NL	158	706	.259	.323	.402	.320	95	16.2	20.8	9.5	106	8	10.6	5.2	5.8	5.2
1988	SLN	MLB	NL	153	669	.250	.309	.363	.284	97	2.9	17.5	8	96	8	19.3	3.7	-2.4	5.0
1989	SLN	MLB	NL	155	664	.251	.312	.373	.287	98	-1.9	17.3	8	95	10	5.1	5.8	-2.4	3.7
1990	SLN	MLB	NL	143	592	.256	.317	.383	.264	98	-8.7	15.9	7.3	83	8	-7.7	3.1	-11.0	0.8
1991	SLN	MLB	NL	150	641	.251	.315	.373	.301	98	12.2	17.3	8	110	8	-10.0	7.4	8.5	3.3
1992	SLN	MLB	NL	132	590	.251	.310	.366	.315	99	1.6	15.3	7	103	9	10.6	2.6	4.1	4.3
1993	SLN	MLB	NL	141	603	.261	.325	.395	.293	98	-5.1	17.3	7.9	87	7	6.2	-0.2	-7.8	2.4
1994	SLN	MLB	NL	98	433	.266	.328	.414	.272	100	-10.4	13.2	6	80	12	2.7	1.5	-9.9	1.3
1995	SLN	MLB	NL	44	182	.253	.319	.391	.212	98	-14.2	5.5	2.5	67	11	2.5	0.0	-7.2	0.3
1996	SLN	MLB	NL	82	261	.266	.330	.413	.287	98	1.9	8.1	3.3	90	12	5.1	-0.9	-2.3	1.3

Statistics For All Levels

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Year	Team	lvl	LG	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	ISO	SF	SH
1978	SDN	MLB	NL	668	590	69	152	17	6	1	184	46	47	43	40	12	.258	.311	.312	.054	3	28
1979	SDN	MLB	NL	649	587	77	124	18	6	0	154	27	37	37	28	7	.211	.260	.262	.051	1	22
1980	SDN	MLB	NL	712	609	67	140	18	5	0	168	35	71	49	57	15	.230	.313	.276	.046	4	23
1981	SDN	MLB	NL	507	450	53	100	11	2	0	115	21	41	37	22	12	.222	.294	.256	.033	1	10
1982	SLN	MLB	NL	567	488	58	121	24	1	2	153	43	68	32	25	5	.248	.339	.314	.066	5	4
1983	SLN	MLB	NL	626	552	69	134	30	6	3	185	50	64	36	34	7	.243	.321	.335	.092	2	7
1984	SLN	MLB	NL	484	412	53	106	20	5	1	139	44	56	17	35	7	.257	.347	.337	.080	3	11
1985	SLN	MLB	NL	615	537	70	148	22	3	6	194	54	65	27	31	8	.276	.355	.361	.086	2	9
1986	SLN	MLB	NL	609	514	67	144	19	4	0	171	54	79	27	31	7	.280	.376	.333	.053	3	11
1987	SLN	MLB	NL	706	600	104	182	40	4	0	230	75	89	36	43	9	.303	.392	.383	.080	4	12
1988	SLN	MLB	NL	669	575	80	155	27	1	3	193	51	74	43	57	9	.270	.350	.336	.066	7	12
1989	SLN	MLB	NL	664	593	82	162	30	8	2	214	50	55	37	29	7	.273	.335	.361	.088	3	11
1990	SLN	MLB	NL	592	512	61	130	21	1	1	156	50	61	33	32	6	.254	.330	.305	.051	10	7
1991	SLN	MLB	NL	641	550	96	157	30	3	3	202	50	83	36	35	9	.285	.380	.367	.082	1	6
1992	SLN	MLB	NL	590	518	73	153	20	2	0	177	31	59	34	43	9	.295	.367	.342	.046	1	12
1993	SLN	MLB	NL	603	545	75	157	22	6	1	194	53	43	18	21	8	.288	.337	.356	.068	7	7
1994	SLN	MLB	NL	433	381	51	100	18	3	3	133	30	38	26	6	3	.262	.326	.349	.087	4	10
1995	SLN	MLB	NL	182	156	16	31	5	1	0	38	11	17	12	4	3	.199	.282	.244	.045	2	5
1996	SLN	MLB	NL	261	227	36	64	10	2	2	84	18	25	9	7	5	.282	.358	.370	.088	0	7

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%	CSAA

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation
1996-04-09	1996-04-29	15-DL	20	18	-	Thigh	Strain	Hamstring	-	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
19 y	Ed Gottlieb

Details

3 years/$3.6M (1983-85). Signed extension with St. Louis 1/83.
2 years/$4.3M (1990-91), plus 1992 club option. Signed extension with St. Louis 4/85. 90:$2.1M, 91:$2.1M, 92:$2M club option. $0.1M buyout. St. Louis exercised $2M club option 11/91.
4 years/$8.7M (1986-89). Signed extension with St. Louis 4/85. 89: $2.2M.
3 years/$3.6M (1983-85). Signed extension with St. Louis 1/83.
1 year/$0.45M (1982). Signed by St. Louis 4/82 (lost in arbitration, $0.75M-$0.45M).
1 year/$0.3M (1981). Re-signed by San Diego. Acquired by St. Louis in trade from San Diego 12/81. Smith agreed to waive no-trade clause to facilitate deal.
1 year/$72,500 (1980). Renewed by San Diego 3/80.
1 year/$72,500 (1979).
1 year (1978).
Drafted by San Diego 1977 (4-86) (Cal Poly), $5,000 signing bonus. Drafted by Detroit 1976 (7-146) (did not sign).

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	VORP	FRAA	WARP
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	0	0	?	?	.000	.000	.000	0	0.0	?	0.0

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Date	Question	Answer
2017-05-22 23:00:00 (link to chat)	Jason Groome ______ 😱 A) has fallen into the same bottomless pit Ozzie Smith did in the Simpsons. B) was abducted by Ego. C) is in the next episode of unsolved mysteries. D) The son of Waldo and Carmen San Diego. (Jquinton82 from NY)	Nah, while any of those things would be infinitely more exciting, he's just hurt. Strained his lat at the beginning of the month, unclear how long the shelf living'll be: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=31758 (Wilson Karaman)
2015-04-06 15:15:00 (link to chat)	Has there been any advance in the petition by Ozzie Smith in making Opening Day a National Holiday? (Edward from Framingham, MA)	I don't know, but gosh darnit there should be! Opening Day might just be my favorite day of the year. It's cold and cloudy here in Portland, Oregon but I've got my baseball stuff on and man I'm excited! And since nobody asked, how about Mookie Betts? The guy just hits the ball hard like all the time! (Matthew Kory)
2014-01-29 19:00:00 (link to chat)	Do you see the Braves moving Jose Peraza from SS to 2B? (@tylerjwarriner from Indiana)	Yes, if they want him to stay in the organization. Unless Ozzie Smith walks through that door, Andrelton ain't moving #rig. And I love Peraza, by the way. I'm pissed Law blew him up before I did, though I did give him a shout-out on TINO the other day. (Ben Carsley)
2012-10-23 13:00:00 (link to chat)	If Rey Ordonez and Ozzie Smith met on a Mediteranian cruise and 9 months later had a left handed baby boy, would anyone give him a legit chance to stay at SS? (Milby from SF)	This actually happened. Sadly, the kid washed out of baseball before the little league level, so we will never know what might have been. (Jason Parks)
2012-04-13 13:00:00 (link to chat)	As Omar Vizquel enters his 24th season, is he worthy of the HOF? (ParklandTrojan from Pennsylvania)	Nope. He's such a below-average hitter (.244 True Average) that it eats into his overall value considerably, and despite the Gold Gloves we have him at just ~11 FRAA for his career. He's not Ozzie Smith, Part Deux by any stretch of the imagination any more than Juan Pierre is Rickey Henderson, Part Deux. (Jay Jaffe)
2011-11-30 13:00:00 (link to chat)	In terms of guys who were unlikely HOFers at age 29 - Ozzie Smith had a 72 OPS+ before age 29, although he was still winning GGs and playing plenty. But Hoyt Wilhelm hadn't played in the majors before he was 29, he turned 30 during in his first season. (Charlie from Bethesda, MD)	Good point, particularly on Wilhelm! (Jay Jaffe)
2011-03-17 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Hey Mike, If you had to be stuck on a desert island with one of the players from the softball episode of the Simpsons, who would it be and why? And this excludes Mike Scioscia as thats just too obvious. (EephusBlue from San Francisco)	I can't pick Mindy Simmons, right? And I assume Steve Sax has already been sent to the chair for all those murders he committed in New York. Probably Ozzie Smith, then. I want to see all his pictures from the mystery dimension. (Mike Petriello)
2011-03-17 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Speaking of Martin ... should we expect Kurt Suzuki to similarly fall off the planet Earth (like, again, Ozzie Smith)? Also, trim those sideburns, Petriello! (RC from Go Clemson)	You could argue that it's already begun, right? Suzuki hit only .242/.303/.366 last year, which even for a catcher is pretty lousy (though the double digit homers were nice). The difference here is that Suzuki's peak wasn't as great as Martin's, so the fall probably won't be as noticable either. (Mike Petriello)
2010-12-07 13:00:00 (link to chat)	As a die hard Cardinals fan, is there any reason for me not to go ahead and assume that I'll be loathing the next two years with TLR at the helm, and Mo as his GM-Puppet? (Jason from Columbia)	It's a weird situation out there, huh? Ozzie Smith was interviewed in a piece where it was basically alluded to that TLR is the reason Brendan Ryan is now out of a job in spite of a stellar glove. So weird in this day and age that a manager would have as much sway as he does. Lightning round time, folks. I have more BP annual work calling my name, especially with all of the transactions going on. (Marc Normandin)
2010-09-13 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Hey Jay ..... thanks for the chat. Have you recovered from the "5-Napkin Burger" Friday night? Who is the current leading candidate for the "Irrational Exuberance" HOF candidacy? In other words, who might be the next Jim Rice? (dianagramr from NYC)	Hey Diana! It took me awhile to recover from the 5-Napkin Burger, but maybe that was all the beer I drank trying to get through the Yanks' drawn out loss later that night. Right now I'd have to say that it's Omar Vizquel's candidacy that leaves me cold. Keith Law wrote about it at length using JAWS numbers I supplied (http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/blog?name=law_keith&id=5410459). The short version is that Vizquel's defensive numbers don't measure up to the average Hall of Fame shortstop let alone those of Ozzie Smith, nor does his bat: Ozzie Smith: 90.9 car/50.2 Pk/70.6 JAWS/.261 TAv/554 RARP/219 RAP/255 FRAA Omar Vizquel: 47.8/27.8/37.8/.247/334/-16/84 AVG HOF SS: 70/47.9/59/.274/477/204/105 (Jay Jaffe)
2010-01-06 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Are you saddened as I am that the inclusion of Ozzie Smith seems to have helped Omar Vizquel when it could or should have helped Larkin and Trammell? (Gregor from Bathurst)	Omar's not on the ballot, so we shouldn't worry about his candidacy for at least another six years. I don't think Ozzie's presence in the Hall has any bearing on Larkin and Trammell any more than the presences of Robin Yount and Cal Ripken do. There were a handful of great shortstops playing during the eighties, and some people apparently feel we've enshrined enough of them. (Jay Jaffe)
2009-12-11 13:00:00 (link to chat)	KG, From the scouts you've spoken to does Grant Green have enough glove to stick at short? (Shane from The Bay Area)	Yes. Is he Ozzie Smith there? Absolutely not. But he can stick there for a while. (Kevin Goldstein)
2009-07-07 13:00:00 (link to chat)	I can't believe that Alan Trammell doesn't get more publicity as a HOF snub. His numbers are almost identical to Ozzie Smith who got 90 percent of the vote? I guess it's because he couldn't do a backflip or have a flashy nickname. (dangor from New York)	Outstanding candidate who's gotten an extremely raw deal. I think he's about 10 JAWS points above the Hall standard for shortstops, and he's well ahead in terms of both batting and fielding runs. It's a crime, I tellz ya! (Jay Jaffe)
2009-01-22 13:00:00 (link to chat)	It seems that in a few years, Omar Vizquel will join Rusty Staub and Harold Baines as the only guys with 11,000 PAs who are not in the HOF. My loose understanding of the argument against Omar is that while his counting and rate stats compare favorably with the Wiz, after adjusting for eras he comes out a little short offensively (84 OPS+ to 87), but the big difference is defense. Apparently the gulf between their defensive abilities was so great that Ozzie was a 90%+ slam dunk inner-circle type of election, and Omar isn't even a bubble guy. Two questions: Was Ozzie overvalued when he went in, and if not can you shine some light on the defensive differences? Thanks (ericturner29 from Chicago)	Ozzie Smith's defensive excellence is well-supported by the numbers, as systems such as WARP and Win Shares both love him. Vizquel is more of a mixed bag. The current iteration of WARP most definitely does NOT love him, but I suspect that the forthcoming play-by-play based system will correct that somewhat; his pbp-based UZR numbers eyeball as pretty decent. Beyond that it's worth noting that Ozzie does have an advantage over Omar with the stick, via a .261 EQA to .254. IN terms of Batting Runs Above Average, the difference is about 100 runs. (Jay Jaffe)
2008-10-24 14:00:00 (link to chat)	It seems like there are no players on either team who are already good Hall of Fame candidates (though guys like Utley, Upton, etc. have time to qualify.) Can you ever remember a Series without such an established veteran star? (oira61 from San Francisco)	Wow, that's a good question, one that pretty much ties into what I was saying a couple of days ago about how rare it is to get two fresh teams facing off in the series for the first time in awhile. Add to that the fact that both teams are dominated by younger guys whose best days may still be ahead of them and you wind up with a situation like this. I'm jogging my memory and looking back over the WS matchups and thinking that we've hit a real stumper. At the time, people wondered aloud if the 1998 Yankees would yield a Hall of Famer, but now it's apparent that Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter will make it if nobody else does, to say nothing of Tony Gwynn from the opposite dugout. The 1982 matchup maybe - at the time it certainly wasn't apparent that Ozzie Smith, Robin Yount, Paul Molitor or Don Sutton would make it (Sutton would win 60-something more games in the majors), adn Rollie Fingers was sidelined too. Definitely a question to sock away for future pondering. (Jay Jaffe)
2008-06-20 13:30:00 (link to chat)	Considering how far ahead of the pack he is at his position, is it fair to call Brooks Robinson the best defensive player in history? (costa24 from Montreal)	Ozzie Smith is, and it's not close. Followed then by Bill Mazeroski, then probably Willie Mays. (Joe Sheehan)

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