1877 Season
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1877 National League Silver Sluggers

Catcher
Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The Silver Slugger was not awarded this season
by Offensive Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Cal McVey
CHN
C
27.8
2.6
11.2
7.2
2 John Clapp
SL3
C
26.0
2.2
9.9
6.1
3 Lew Brown
BSN
C
19.4
0.9
4.4
1.1
4 Pop Snyder
LS1
C
22.7
0.4
1.6
-2.0
5 Bill Harbidge
HAR
C
22.3
0.4
0.7
-1.7
First Base
Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The Silver Slugger was not awarded this season
by Offensive Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Deacon White
BSN
1B
29.6
3.4
16.1
12.1
2 Joe Start
HAR
1B
34.7
2.4
10.8
6.7
3 Juice Latham
LS1
1B
24.8
0.8
4.5
0.3
4 Charlie Gould
CN1
1B
29.9
0.5
1.5
0.1
5 Al Spalding
CHN
1B
26.8
0.1
2.8
-1.0
Second Base
Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The Silver Slugger was not awarded this season
by Offensive Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Joe Gerhardt
LS1
2B
22.4
1.0
4.7
1.0
2 George Wright
BSN
2B
30.4
0.9
5.2
0.9
3 Jack Burdock
HAR
2B
25.3
0.6
2.9
-1.2
4 Mike McGeary
SL3
2B
26.6
0.4
2.5
-1.3
5 Ross Barnes
CHN
2B
27.1
0.2
1.4
-0.0
Third Base
Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The Silver Slugger was not awarded this season
by Offensive Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Cap Anson
CHN
3B
25.2
2.2
8.8
4.9
2 John Morrill
BSN
3B
22.4
0.9
5.1
1.5
3 Bob Ferguson
HAR
3B
32.4
0.9
3.2
-0.6
4 Bill Hague
LS1
3B
25.6
0.2
2.1
-1.9
5 Joe Battin
SL3
3B
25.6
0.0
0.9
-2.5
Shortstop
Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The Silver Slugger was not awarded this season
by Offensive Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Jack Manning
CN1
SS
23.5
2.4
7.7
4.0
2 John Peters
CHN
SS
27.2
1.5
6.3
2.4
3 Ezra Sutton
BSN
SS
26.8
1.4
6.0
2.3
4 Davy Force
SL3
SS
27.9
1.1
4.8
1.3
5 Levi Meyerle
CN1
SS
32.0
1.1
3.1
1.6
Outfield
Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The Silver Slugger was not awarded this season
by Offensive Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 John Cassidy
HAR
RF
20.6
2.6
13.6
9.9
2 Jim O'Rourke
BSN
CF
26.8
2.5
13.3
9.2
3 Charley Jones
MULT
LF
27.2
2.5
9.0
5.3
4 Lip Pike
CN1
CF
32.1
2.1
7.3
3.3
5 Mike Dorgan*
SL3
RF
23.7
1.7
10.2
6.2
6 Tom York
HAR
LF
27.0
1.3
7.6
4.1
7 George Hall
LS1
LF
28.3
1.3
8.0
3.9
8 Jimmy Hallinan
MULT
RF
28.1
0.9
4.3
1.9
9 Bob Addy
CN1
RF
32.4
0.8
3.3
-0.4
10 Orator Shaffer*
LS1
RF
25.8
0.5
4.9
0.9
11 Andy Leonard
BSN
LF
31.1
0.5
4.1
0.1
12 Tim Murnane
BSN
CF
25.1
0.5
3.2
1.1
13 Paul Hines
CHN
LF
22.3
0.4
4.7
0.9
14 Jack Remsen
SL3
CF
27.3
0.4
2.9
1.0
15 Jim Holdsworth
HAR
CF
27.0
0.3
2.7
-1.2
Pitcher
Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The Silver Slugger was not awarded this season
by Offensive Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Terry Larkin*
HAR
SP
0.0
0.6
2.3
1.5
2 Jim Devlin
LS1
SP
28.1
0.3
2.5
1.5
3 Candy Cummings
CN1
SP
28.7
0.1
0.2
-0.1
4 George Bradley
CHN
SP
25.0
0.1
1.8
1.0
5 Bobby Mitchell*
CN1
SP
21.4
0.0
0.0
-0.2
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com
*Rookie

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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