| Career Batting: | .234 BA .313 OBP .274 SLG. 0 HR. 1,609 PA. | (1900-1909) |
Smith (born James H. Smith) could have been useful, in the mold of someone decent with the glove with a good command of the strike zone. The problem is he couldn’t, just could not, hit. So you have a nice gap between his BA and his OBP, but it’s still pretty marginal. He also struck out a fair bit, so it was pretty much a runner on first, or nothing.
Much better at 3B than SS, played a little 2B as well.
We’ve given Smith a few good years before his actual debut to shape his career a bit more, and to frame the rest of his career as attempts to “get back” to those early peaks. This results in an anomaly in these MLE’s: someone whose career stats are actually better than his IRL stats. It’s hard–Smith clearly held down a bit of a role on teams for a half-dozen years, but when you expand the limited season of the NeL teams into a full MLB season, someone’s not going to post a .000 BA, right? This makes Smith one of the more “fantastical” MLE’s, which I think is fine for this kind of very fringe player, but, of course, YMMV.
If he fell off the radar after 1905, that would make sense; 1907 as well. But we’ve kept him around for his useful fringe part year in 1908 before he falls completely off the cliff in 1909.
| Name | Jimmy Smith |
| ID / Status | smith01jim / |
| Pos | IF |
| DOB / i9s Career | 1874 / 1900 - 1909 |
| Birthplace | IL (USA) |
| Height / Weight | / |
| B / T | / R |
Batting Projections
| Year | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS |
| 1900 | 72 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .358 | .319 | .677 |
| 1901 | 177 | 44 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .249 | .332 | .299 | .631 |
| 1902 | 143 | 38 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .348 | .322 | .670 |
| 1903 | 236 | 67 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 28 | 0 | 0 | .284 | .365 | .347 | .712 |
| 1904 | 252 | 62 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 33 | 0 | 0 | .246 | .326 | .278 | .604 |
| 1905 | 162 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .136 | .200 | .154 | .354 |
| 1906 | 123 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .292 | .236 | .528 |
| 1907 | 95 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .243 | .200 | .443 |
| 1908 | 143 | 36 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .331 | .308 | .639 |
| 1909 | 40 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 |
| TOTALS | 1,443 | 337 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 166 | 208 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .313 | .274 | .587 |