John Smoltz

Position: Pitcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-3, 210lb (190cm, 95kg)

Born: May 15, 1967 in Detroit, MI us

Draft: Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 22nd round of the 1985 MLB June Amateur Draft from Waverly HS (Lansing, MI).

High School: Waverly HS (Lansing, MI)

Debut: July 23, 1988 (Age 21-069d, 15,503rd in major league history)
vs. NYM 8.0 IP, 4 H, 2 SO, 1 BB, 1 ER, W

Last Game: September 30, 2009 (Age 42-138d)
vs. CIN 4.0 IP, 6 H, 3 SO, 5 BB, 6 ER, L

Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 2015. (Voted by BBWAA on 455/549 ballots)
View John Smoltz's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1988 season

Agents: Lonnie Cooper, Myles Shoda

National Team: us USA (18U)

Full Name: John Andrew Smoltz

Nicknames: Smoltzie

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

69.0

213

155

ERA

3.33

723

481

154

3473.0

3084

WHIP

1.176

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Team Record in Appearances: 28-13 / in Starts: 17-10

Days of Rest

Run Support in Games Started

Total runs in Starts, Avg. is per 27 outs

Postseason Pitching Game Log

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Postseason Pitching Game Log
Rk	Year	Series	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
1	1991	NLCS g3	Oct 12	ATL		PIT	W,10-3	GS-7	W(1-0)	6	6.1	8	3	3	2	7	2	0	4.26	5.70	29					4	15	6	2	1	50			1	0	0	27	2	0	0	0	0	0	.75	0.050	23.64	0.68%	0.14	1t start tie	7t --- 1 out a3
2	1991	NLCS g7	Oct 17	ATL	@	PIT	W,4-0	SHO	W(2-0)	4	9.0	6	0	0	1	8	0	0	1.76	3.18	35	123	82	24	15	11	15	6	3	0	82			0	0	0	34	1	0	0	0	0	1	.78	0.312	64.67	16.88%	4.08	1b start a 3	9b 3 out a4
3	1991	WS g4	Oct 23	ATL		MIN	W,3-2	GS-7		5	7.0	7	2	2	0	7	1	0	2.01	3.04	27	97	68	14	19	10	10	3	1	0	62			0	1	0	27	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.06	0.085	64.82	1.91%	1.40	1t start tie	7t 3 out d1
4	1991	WS g7	Oct 27	ATL	@	MIN	L,0-1	GS-8		3	7.1	6	0	0	1	4	0	1	1.52	2.92	29	105	69	9	21	10	13	6	4	0	69			0	0	0	27	1	0	0	1	0	0	1.22	0.311	203.51	28.50%	2.98	1b start tie	8b 1-3 1 out tie
1992 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
5	1992	NLCS g1	Oct 6	ATL		PIT	W,5-1	GS-8	W(1-0)	3	8.0	4	1	1	3	6	1	0	1.13	4.03	29	110	65	17	13	10	10	3	3	0	73			0	1	0	26	0	0	0	1	0	0	.69	0.313	18.01	4.51%	2.69	1t start tie	8t 3 out a4
6	1992	NLCS g4	Oct 10	ATL	@	PIT	W,6-4	GS-7	W(2-0)	3	6.1	6	4	3	5	9	0	0	2.51	3.27	30	113	61	22	14	4	12	5	1	0	51			0	0	0	25	2	1	1	0	0	0	1.21	-0.184	36.95	-3.64%	-1.61	1b start tie	7b -2- 1 out a2
7	1992	NLCS g7	Oct 14	ATL		PIT	W,3-2	GS-6		3	6.0	4	2	2	2	4	0	0	2.66	3.03	24	83	49	11	9	6	12	4	3	0	58			0	0	0	21	3	0	1	0	1	0	.99	0.036	82.40	1.93%	0.77	1t start tie	6t 3 out d2
8	1992	WS g2	Oct 18	ATL		TOR	L,4-5	GS-8		3	7.1	8	3	2	3	8	0	0	2.60	2.71	31					6	14	9	1	0	57			0	0	0	28	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.35	-0.146	71.48	-4.28%	-0.46	1t start tie	8t 1-3 1 out a1
9	1992	WS g5	Oct 22	ATL	@	TOR	W,7-2	GS-7	W(3-0)	3	6.0	5	2	2	4	4	0	0	2.67	2.84	27	114	66	16	10	6	13	3	0	0	54			0	0	0	23	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.13	0.003	54.75	-0.16%	0.62	1b start a 1	7b 1-- 0 out a5
1993 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
10	1993	NLCS g4	Oct 10	ATL		PHI	L,1-2	GS-7	L(0-1)	9	6.1	8	2	0	5	10	0	0	0.00	2.20	33	125	76	19	17	11	7	4	1	0	58			0	0	0	27	1	0	0	0	1	1	1.26	0.026	40.53	0.43%	0.60	1t start tie	7t 12- 1 out d1
1995 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
11	1995	NLDS g3	Oct 6	ATL		COL	L,5-7	GS-6		4	5.2	5	5	5	1	6	2	1	7.94	6.63	24					5	7	1	3	4	44			1	0	0	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	.93	-0.296	8.34	-1.77%	-1.92	1t start tie	6t --- 2 out d2
12	1995	NLCS g2	Oct 11	ATL	@	CIN	W,6-2	GS-7		4	7.0	7	2	2	2	2	0	0	4.97	4.84	28	109	63	9	13	13	11	5	3	0	55			2	2	0	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.34	0.179	34.55	2.61%	1.58	1b start a 1	7b 3 out tie
13	1995	WS g3	Oct 24	ATL	@	CLE	L,6-7	GS-3		12	2.1	6	4	4	2	4	0	0	6.60	4.44	15	56	34	9	8	6	3	3	0	0	31			0	0	0	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	.90	-0.304	37.61	-7.21%	-3.93	1b start a 1	3b 123 1 out d3
1996 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
14	1996	NLDS g1	Oct 2	ATL	@	LAD	W,2-1	GS-9	W(1-0)	4	9.0	4	1	1	2	7	0	0	1.00	2.28	33	126	86	21	18	13	11	2	2	0	80			0	1	0	31	2	0	0	0	0	1	1.27	0.526	19.83	4.52%	3.38	1b start tie	9b 3 out tie
15	1996	NLCS g1	Oct 9	ATL		STL	W,4-2	GS-8	W(2-0)	6	8.0	5	2	2	2	6	0	0	1.59	2.35	31	103	65	19	10	4	19	6	5	0	68			0	0	0	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.33	0.264	34.59	4.09%	2.40	1t start tie	8t 3 out tie
16	1996	NLCS g5	Oct 14	ATL	@	STL	W,14-0	GS-7	W(3-0)	4	7.0	7	0	0	1	6	0	0	1.13	2.21	28	110	74	16	8	10	11	4	4	0	68			0	0	0	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	.25	0.070	5.89	1.06%	3.63	1b start a 5	7b 3 out a11
17	1996	WS g1	Oct 20	ATL	@	NYY	W,12-1	GS-6	W(4-0)	5	6.0	2	1	1	5	4	0	0	1.20	2.64	25	103	57	17	8	5	11	2	3	0	63			0	0	0	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	.46	0.139	24.03	4.44%	2.65	1b start tie	6b 3 out a11
18	1996	WS g5	Oct 24	ATL		NYY	L,0-1	GS-8	L(4-1)	3	8.0	4	1	0	3	10	0	0	0.95	2.46	31	135	79	18	16	9	9	7	0	0	79			1	0	0	28	1	0	0	0	0	1	1.14	0.331	94.11	16.49%	3.40	1t start tie	8t 3 out d1
1997 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
19	1997	NLDS g3	Oct 3	ATL	@	HOU	W,4-1	CG	W(1-0)	5	9.0	3	1	1	1	11	1	0	1.00	2.44	32	103	76	23	16	8	12	6	2	0	87			0	0	0	31	0	0	0	1	0	2	.83	0.438	9.84	3.35%	3.44	1b start a 1	9b 3 out a3
20	1997	NLCS g3	Oct 10	ATL	@	FLA	L,2-5	GS-6	L(1-1)	6	6.0	5	5	5	5	9	1	0	3.60	3.38	27	127	76	13	15	5	8	7	0	0	46			0	0	0	22	3	0	2	0	0	0	1.38	-0.372	43.22	-7.02%	-2.07	1b start tie	6b 3 out d3
1998 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
21	1998	NLDS g1	Sep 30	ATL		CHC	W,7-1	GS-8	W(1-0)	6	7.2	5	1	1	0	6	1	0	1.17	3.27	27	116	80	23	14	5	16	5	5	0	71			0	1	0	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	.74	0.385	11.60	3.37%	2.98	1t start tie	8t --- 2 out a6
22	1998	NLCS g1	Oct 7	ATL		SDP	L,2-3	GS-8		6	7.0	4	2	2	5	5	0	0	1.84	3.55	30	114	65	19	11	10	10	3	2	0	61			0	0	0	24	1	0	0	1	0	1	1.33	0.178	34.85	2.30%	1.95	1t start tie	8t -2- 0 out tie
23	1998	NLCS g5	Oct 12	ATL	@	SDP	W,7-6	GS-7		4	6.2	9	4	4	1	8	2	0	2.95	4.03	29	96	65	10	23	14	6	1	1	0	47			0	0	0	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	.65	-0.258	15.50	-3.43%	-1.13	1b start tie	7b 12- 2 out d2
1999 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
24	1999	NLDS g4	Oct 9	ATL	@	HOU	W,7-5	GS-8	W(1-0)	7	7.0	6	4	4	3	3	2	1	5.14	7.71	32					9	10	1	1	6	49			1	0	0	27	0	0	0	0	0	1	.88	0.232	17.05	2.90%	-0.16	1b start a 1	8b --- 0 out a3
25	1999	NLCS g2	Oct 13	ATL		NYM	W,4-3	9-GF	S(1)	3	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4.50	6.88	3					1	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.21	0.173	58.38	2.55%	0.55	9t --- 0 out a1	9t end a 1
26	1999	NLCS g4	Oct 16	ATL	@	NYM	L,2-3	GS-8		2	7.1	4	2	2	0	7	1	0	3.52	5.03	26					6	9	0	3	4	69			0	0	0	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.04	0.221	9.99	1.21%	2.75	1b start tie	8b 1-- 1 out a1
27	1999	NLCS g6	Oct 19	ATL		NYM	W,10-9	7-7		2	0.1	4	4	4	0	0	1	0	5.74	5.81	5					0	1	0	0	4		0	0	0	0	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.27	-0.395	49.33	-8.55%	-3.74	7t --- 0 out a4	7t --- 1 out tie
28	1999	WS g4	Oct 27	ATL	@	NYY	L,1-4	GS-7	L(1-1)	7	7.0	6	3	3	3	11	0	0	5.16	4.41	30					8	4	0	1	4	61			2	0	0	27	0	0	1	0	0	0	.89	-0.044	19.66	-0.54%	1.05	1b start tie	7b 3 out d3
2001 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
29	2001	NLDS g1	Oct 9	ATL	@	HOU	W,7-4	8-GF	S(1)	4	2.0	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	4.50	8.55	8	19	15	2	2	1	4	1	0	2		0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	.67	0.081	10.49	0.80%	0.11	8b --- 0 out a3	9b end a 3
30	2001	NLDS g2	Oct 10	ATL	@	HOU	W,1-0	9-GF	S(2)	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.00	6.72	3	11	8	2	1	1	1	0	1	1		0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3.65	0.219	55.69	2.15%	0.56	9b --- 0 out a1	9b end a 1
31	2001	NLDS g3	Oct 12	ATL		HOU	W,6-2	9-GF		1	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2.25	4.80	3	8	7	1	3	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.21	0.016	2.14	0.09%	0.54	9t --- 0 out a4	9t end a 4
32	2001	NLCS g2	Oct 17	ATL	@	ARI	W,8-1	9-GF		4	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.80	4.05	3	17	12	2	3	1	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.02	0.002	.62	0.03%	0.57	9b --- 0 out a7	9b end a 7
33	2001	NLCS g5	Oct 21	ATL		ARI	L,2-3	8-GF		3	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.29	3.76	6	22	17	3	5	2	4	2	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	.64	0.099	11.42	1.14%	1.08	8t --- 0 out d1	9t end d 1
2002 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
34	2002	NLDS g2	Oct 3	ATL		SFG	W,7-3	8-GF		4	1.1	1	1	1	0	4	1	0	6.75	6.71	5	18	16	2	6	0	0	0	0	1		1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.16	0.010	2.38	0.09%	-0.26	8t 1-- 2 out a5	9t end a 4
35	2002	NLDS g5	Oct 7	ATL		SFG	L,1-3	8-GF		3	2.0	1	0	0	2	3	0	0	2.70	4.46	8	34	19	8	3	1	1	0	0	1		0	0	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	.43	0.047	17.82	1.26%	1.01	8t --- 0 out d2	9t end d 2
2003 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
36	2003	NLDS g2	Oct 1	ATL		CHC	W,5-3	8-GF	BW(1-0)	3	2.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.50	3.03	7	28	21	4	2	2	5	1	1	0		0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	2.00	-0.056	30.42	-0.47%	0.05	8t --- 0 out a1	9t end a 2
37	2003	NLDS g4	Oct 4	ATL	@	CHC	W,6-4	9-GF	S(1)	2	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	6.00	2.36	5	20	13	1	4	0	4	1	1	0		0	0	0	0	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.08	0.044	46.69	0.63%	-0.48	9b --- 0 out a3	9b end a 2
2004 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
38	2004	NLDS g2	Oct 7	ATL		HOU	W,4-2	8-10		4	3.0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0.00	3.05	11	45	24	3	9	3	3	0	1	0		0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.26	0.339	34.46	2.94%	1.57	8t --- 0 out d1	10t 3 out tie
39	2004	NLDS g4	Oct 10	ATL	@	HOU	W,6-5	8-GF	W(1-0)	2	2.0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.00	2.65	9	28	20	5	3	3	5	2	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	3.12	0.318	70.24	4.40%	1.05	8b --- 0 out tie	9b end a 1
2005 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
40	2005	NLDS g2	Oct 6	ATL		HOU	W,7-1	GS-7	W(1-0)	12	7.0	7	1	1	1	5	0	0	1.29	2.02	28	93	67	14	9	8	14	4	6	0	63			0	0	0	27	1	0	1	1	0	0	.86	0.179	13.05	1.49%	2.59	1t start tie	7t 3 out a4
2009 Postseason		Year	Series	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	DR	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	FIP	BF	Pit	Str	StL	StS	GB	FB	LD	PU	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	SB	CS	PO	AB	2B	3B	IBB	GDP	SF	ROE	aLI	WPA	acLI	cWPA	RE24	Entered	Exited
41	2009	NLDS g3	Oct 10	STL		LAD	L,1-5	6-7		9	2.0	4	1	1	0	5	0	0	4.50	-1.90	10	49	34	8	7	2	3	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	.22	-0.006	2.30	-0.03%	-0.03	6t --- 0 out d4	7t 3 out d5
											209.0	172	67	62	67	199	17	3	2.67		856																			6

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