Hochman: Do you know how good Ozzie Smith's 1989 was in the field? Neither did Ozzie.

Ozzie Smith does a backflip in this 1988 photo by Gary Bohn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Quantifying wizardry sounds problematic, but baseball has a stat for everything.

And so, a scroll down Baseball-Reference.com is like a stroll down the yellow brick road — in fact, if you type “The Wizard” into the search bar, it takes you right to Ozzie Smith’s stats page.

One day, I perused Ozzie’s year-by-year Total Zone ratings. Listed under “Rtot,” Total Zone is the definitive advanced fielding stat of his era (and can be used to rate any player from any era).