1876 Season
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1876 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 Jim Devlin
LS1
SP
27.1
18.6
54.9
29.8
2 Tommy Bond
HAR
SP
20.2
10.3
46.7
30.4
3 Al Spalding
CHN
SP
25.8
9.9
52.0
30.1
4 George Bradley
SL3
SP
24.0
9.0
62.4
39.3
5 Ross Barnes
CHN
2B
26.1
5.7
22.7
16.4
6 Cap Anson
CHN
3B
24.2
3.7
14.9
8.8
7 Deacon White
CHN
C
28.6
3.7
13.3
6.8
8 Cal McVey
CHN
1B
26.8
3.6
15.5
8.4
9 Candy Cummings
HAR
SP
27.7
3.5
21.9
13.2
10 Joe Battin
SL3
3B
24.6
3.5
14.6
9.0
11 John Peters
CHN
SS
26.2
3.2
12.7
6.4
12 George Wright
BSN
SS
29.4
3.1
17.9
11.1
13 John Clapp
SL3
C
25.0
3.0
14.0
7.7
14 Lip Pike
SL3
CF
31.1
2.7
19.3
13.6
15 Paul Hines
CHN
CF
21.3
2.7
13.8
7.9
16 Bobby Mathews
NY3
SP
24.6
2.5
20.6
0.0
17 Jim O'Rourke
BSN
CF
25.8
2.5
19.3
13.1
18 George Hall
PHN
LF
27.3
2.4
11.0
5.8
19 Mike McGeary
SL3
2B
25.6
2.2
6.4
1.1
20 Dick Higham
HAR
RF
25.6
1.8
14.6
9.3
21 Joe Gerhardt
LS1
1B
21.4
1.7
6.9
1.8
22 Tom Carey
HAR
SS
30.3
1.7
7.5
1.6
23 Jack Remsen
HAR
CF
26.3
1.7
11.6
5.4
24 Charley Jones*
CN1
CF
26.2
1.6
9.3
3.7
25 Doug Allison
HAR
C
30.0
1.5
4.9
1.2
26 Levi Meyerle
PHN
3B
31.0
1.4
7.9
2.3
27 John Glenn
CHN
LF
26.5
1.3
8.2
3.0
28 Denny Mack
SL3
SS
25.6
1.3
3.8
-0.1
29 Chick Fulmer
LS1
SS
25.4
1.2
6.3
0.7
30 Tom York
HAR
LF
26.0
1.2
10.1
4.8
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com
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Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

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