1898 Season
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1898 National League TSN Pitcher of the Year

Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The TSN Pitcher of the Year was not awarded this season
by Pitching Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Kid Nichols
BSN
SP
28.8
10.8
45.3
31.8
2 Clark Griffith
CHN
SP
28.6
10.7
31.2
20.0
3 Doc McJames
BLN
SP
23.8
8.1
30.1
17.2
4 Al Maul
BLN
SP
32.7
7.4
22.3
14.1
5 Cy Young
CL4
SP
31.3
6.9
33.4
20.4
6 Bert Cunningham
LS3
SP
32.6
6.8
29.2
16.8
7 Jesse Tannehill
PIT
SP
24.0
6.7
29.5
18.2
8 Ted Lewis
BSN
SP
25.5
6.3
31.2
20.3
9 Jack Powell
CL4
SP
24.0
6.0
28.0
16.3
10 Pink Hawley
CIN
SP
25.6
5.9
27.5
16.1
11 Vic Willis*
BSN
SP
22.2
5.0
28.6
17.9
12 Wiley Piatt*
PHI
SP
24.0
4.7
19.5
9.0
13 Frank Dwyer
CIN
SP
30.3
4.4
20.1
11.8
14 Amos Rusie
NY1
SP
27.1
4.4
19.6
9.2
15 Ted Breitenstein
CIN
SP
29.1
4.2
23.1
12.3
16 Jim Hughey
SLN
SP
29.3
3.9
13.9
4.1
17 Brickyard Kennedy
BRO
SP
30.7
3.8
19.0
7.3
18 Nixey Callahan
CHN
SP
24.3
3.7
20.3
10.8
19 Al Orth
PHI
SP
25.8
3.6
15.2
6.5
20 Bill Magee
LS3
SP
23.6
3.4
17.5
7.3
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com
*Rookie

1898 American League TSN Pitcher of the Year

Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
The TSN Pitcher of the Year was not awarded this season
by Pitching Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
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