1901 Season
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1901 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 Cy Young
BOS
SP
34.3
12.6
42.0
28.8
2 Christy Mathewson*
NY1
SP
20.9
9.0
23.7
12.0
3 Vic Willis
BSN
SP
25.2
8.7
32.4
21.8
4 Nap Lajoie
PHA
2B
26.8
8.4
41.4
29.4
5 Bobby Wallace
SLN
SS
27.7
7.7
26.1
12.7
6 Noodles Hahn
CIN
SP
22.2
7.5
26.0
13.0
7 Al Orth
PHI
SP
28.8
7.4
28.1
18.2
8 Clark Griffith
CHA
SP
31.6
7.2
26.6
17.1
9 Joe McGinnity
BLA
SP
30.3
7.2
28.0
14.5
10 Honus Wagner
PIT
SS
27.4
7.1
36.0
22.8
11 Kid Nichols
BSN
SP
31.8
7.1
30.8
19.3
12 Jesse Burkett
SLN
LF
32.6
7.1
37.5
24.5
13 Roscoe Miller*
DET
SP
24.6
7.0
27.7
16.0
14 Jimmy Collins
BOS
3B
31.5
6.7
27.3
14.4
15 Elmer Flick
PHI
RF
25.5
6.6
30.4
19.2
16 Ed Delahanty
PHI
LF
33.7
6.6
32.4
20.7
17 Jimmy Sheckard
BRO
LF
22.6
6.4
33.0
21.0
18 Bill Dinneen
BSN
SP
25.2
6.1
26.4
15.5
19 Nixey Callahan
CHA
SP
27.3
5.9
22.3
14.3
20 Bill Donovan
BRO
SP
24.7
5.7
25.7
13.5
21 Topsy Hartsel
CHN
LF
27.0
5.6
27.6
15.2
22 Jack Chesbro
PIT
SP
27.1
5.6
23.6
13.6
23 Red Donahue
PHI
SP
28.4
5.5
25.4
15.1
24 Deacon Phillippe
PIT
SP
29.1
5.1
25.2
14.9
25 Freddy Parent*
BOS
SS
25.6
5.1
20.4
7.1
26 Eddie Plank*
PHA
SP
25.8
5.0
20.0
10.8
27 Joe Yeager
DET
SP
25.8
5.0
20.1
12.3
28 Fred Clarke
PIT
LF
28.7
5.0
28.0
16.4
29 Jesse Tannehill
PIT
SP
27.0
5.0
22.3
13.2
30 George Davis
NY1
SS
30.9
4.8
21.7
9.3
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