1872 Season
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1872 Major League Player of the Year

Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The Player of the Year was not awarded this season
by Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Al Spalding
BS1
SP
21.8
12.1
59.3
44.4
2 Candy Cummings*
NY2
SP
23.7
8.1
41.3
23.2
3 George Zettlein
MULT
SP
28.0
6.0
17.8
8.1
4 Bobby Mathews
BL1
SP
20.6
5.4
27.8
12.8
5 Dick McBride
PH1
SP
27.6
5.1
35.0
19.5
6 Ross Barnes
BS1
2B
22.1
4.3
15.3
11.5
7 George Wright*
BS1
SS
25.4
3.0
10.4
5.9
8 Davy Force
MULT
3B
22.9
2.9
13.9
10.3
9 Dave Eggler
NY2
CF
23.2
2.7
14.3
9.5
10 John Hatfield
NY2
2B
24.9
2.4
10.7
5.9
11 Cap Anson*
PH1
3B
20.2
2.4
9.9
6.3
12 Wes Fisler
PH1
2B
31.0
2.4
8.4
4.4
13 Cherokee Fisher
BL1
SP
27.7
2.4
10.4
4.8
14 Mike McGeary
PH1
SS
21.6
1.9
9.1
4.8
15 Nat Hicks*
NY2
C
27.2
1.8
9.5
4.4
16 George Hall
BL1
CF
23.3
1.5
9.3
5.2
17 Denny Mack*
PH1
1B
21.6
1.4
4.6
1.0
18 Doug Allison
MULT
C
26.0
1.4
4.4
0.7
19 Bob Ferguson
BR2
3B
27.4
1.3
3.0
0.3
20 George Bechtel*
NY2
RF
24.6
1.3
6.1
2.3
21 Harry Schafer
BS1
3B
25.9
1.3
5.6
1.9
22 Cal McVey
BS1
C
22.8
1.3
6.7
2.5
23 Lip Pike*
BL1
2B
27.1
1.2
8.6
4.1
24 Ned Cuthbert
PH1
LF
27.0
1.2
8.3
3.8
25 Levi Meyerle*
PH1
RF
27.0
1.2
5.3
3.3
26 Scott Hastings*
MULT
C
24.9
1.1
5.7
2.6
27 Harry Wright
BS1
CF
37.5
1.1
7.3
2.6
28 John McMullin
NY2
LF
24.6
1.1
6.0
1.1
29 Andy Leonard
BS1
LF
26.1
1.1
7.1
3.0
30 Jimmy Wood
MULT
2B
29.6
1.1
5.9
3.4
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Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James