Cleveland Spiders History (1887 - ) - The Baseball Gauge @ Seamheads.com

Cleveland Spiders

From To

Record	827 - 938 (.469)
Home +/-	-6.5
Away +/-	-34.6

	#	Last	Since
World Series	0		0 yrs
League	0		12 yrs
Division	0		0 yrs
Wild Card	0		0 yrs

Baseball-Reference Links		Links
Team Encyclopedia	Batting Stats	Retrosheet
Starters Positional	Pitching Stats	Baseball-Almanac
Starters Pitching	Batting Leaders	Baseball America Execs
Opening Day Starters	Pitching Leaders	Wikipedia / BR Bullpen
Managers	Team Batting	SportsLogos.net
Amateur Drafts	Team Pitching	Official Site

All-Original Cleveland Spiders Team

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com

Left Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Hank Simon	2	1887	1890	2.7

Center Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Jimmy McAleer	10	1889	1898	1.4

Right Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Emmet Heidrick	2	1898	1899	2.9
Chief Sockalexis	3	1897	1899	0.7
Vince Dailey	1	1890	1890	0.5
Harry Blake	6	1894	1899	-0.6

Shortstop	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Ed McKean	13	1887	1899	38.6
Frank Scheibeck	6	1887	1899	0.9
Harry Lochhead	1	1899	1899	-1.5

Second Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

Third Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
George Davis	10	1890	1899	42.5
Bobby Wallace	6	1894	1899	19.5
Will Smalley	2	1890	1891	0.5

First Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Jake Virtue	5	1890	1894	9.6

Catcher	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Ed McFarland	5	1893	1899	8.6
Lou Criger	4	1896	1899	3.3
John Munyan	3	1887	1891	2.1
Jim Toy	2	1887	1890	-3.1
Tom Dowse	3	1890	1892	-3.2

Starting Pitcher	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Cy Young	10	1890	1899	86.7
Nig Cuppy	8	1892	1899	39.3
Jack Powell	3	1897	1899	17.0
Cowboy Jones	2	1898	1899	0.7
Bob Gilks	5	1887	1893	-1.0

Swingman	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Darby O'Brien	4	1888	1891	4.3
Charlie Hastings	4	1893	1898	2.4

Relief Pitcher	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Chauncey Fisher	4	1893	1897	-1.5
Charlie Knepper	1	1899	1899	-1.9
Ezra Lincoln	1	1890	1890	-4.6
Jack Wadsworth	4	1890	1895	-4.6
Frank Bates	2	1898	1899	-6.0
Mike Morrison	3	1887	1890	-7.4
Billy Crowell	2	1887	1888	-8.0

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Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".

Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James