How Cleo Smith's BABIP Compares to Similar Players

Cleo Smith posted a career BABIP of .268, near the league average of .267 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best BABIP season came in 1928, posting .324. The lowest point came in 1922 at .160. The BABIP trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .235 in 1926 to .278 in 1927 and .324 in 1928. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 6 seasons.

Cleo Smith Lifetime BABIP

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Cleo Smith BABIP Per Season

Cleo Smith's BABIP for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — Negro National League II, Hall of Fame, 2B, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Cleo Smith BABIP per season line chart

Cleo Smith BABIP by Team

Cleo Smith's career BABIP totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Cleo Smith career BABIP by team bar chart

Cleo Smith BABIP Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Cleo Smith's career BABIP shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Cleo Smith BABIP year-over-year waterfall chart

Cleo Smith BABIP Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Cleo Smith's seasonal BABIP alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Cleo Smith BABIP distribution box chart versus comparable players

Cleo Smith BABIP — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Cleo Smith's MLB career with BABIP alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Cleo Smith BABIP season-by-season breakdown table