John Smoltz played 21 seasons (1988–2009) for ATL, BOS and STL. Career regular-season line: a 213–155 record, 3,084 strikeouts and a 3.33 ERA. Standard career, peaking in 1996. Led the league in a statistical category 3 times. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015. Honors: 8× All-Star Selections and 1× Cy Young Awards.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 99.1th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
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Rate John Smoltz — All-Time
20 seasons · peak 15.5 in 1996
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
54.4 career wins over 20 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1996 · +5.9 wins
Latest season · 2009 · +0.1 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often John Smoltz led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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3
league-leading seasons · 11 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 1996, 20 rated seasons.
Season boards
11
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
Where John Smoltz ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
The season chip above measures John Smoltz's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 22 seasons (1988–2009) — a true nomad. The crest trail: