1915 Season
1914 / 1916
Baseball-Reference Links
Pitching Vs
Amateur Draft
Links
Top HitterTy
Cobb
Top PitcherWalter
Johnson

1915 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 Walter Johnson
WS1
SP
27.7
12.1
39.3
27.3
2 Pete Alexander
PHI
SP
28.3
10.8
42.2
30.1
3 Ty Cobb
DET
CF
28.5
9.5
51.2
36.9
4 Eddie Collins
CHA
2B
28.2
9.3
39.5
25.5
5 Dave Davenport
SLF
SP
25.4
7.2
34.9
22.0
6 Fred Toney
CIN
SP
26.6
7.2
23.2
16.0
7 Tris Speaker
BOS
CF
27.2
7.1
38.7
25.3
8 Gavvy Cravath
PHI
RF
34.3
7.0
32.7
21.0
9 Eddie Plank
SLF
SP
39.8
6.9
28.1
19.3
10 Benny Kauff
BRF
CF
25.5
6.8
33.8
21.7
11 Guy Morton
CLE
SP
22.1
6.7
20.4
12.0
12 Jeff Pfeffer
BRO
SP
27.3
6.3
25.8
16.4
13 Jack Fournier
CHA
1B
25.8
5.9
27.0
17.5
14 Jim Scott
CHA
SP
27.2
5.8
24.0
13.5
15 Ray Caldwell
NYA
SP
27.2
5.8
22.5
11.7
16 Joe Wood
BOS
SP
25.7
5.8
19.8
14.2
17 Jeff Tesreau
NY1
SP
27.3
5.7
20.4
10.6
18 Fred Luderus
PHI
1B
29.8
5.7
25.0
14.7
19 Al Mamaux
PIT
SP
21.1
5.7
20.8
12.7
20 Heinie Groh
CIN
3B
25.8
5.6
24.4
9.5
21 Carl Weilman
SLA
SP
25.6
5.6
19.6
9.2
22 Honus Wagner
PIT
SS
41.4
5.5
23.2
8.8
23 Doc Crandall
SLF
SP
27.7
5.4
28.4
17.9
24 Rube Foster
BOS
SP
27.5
5.4
24.2
15.2
25 Hooks Dauss
DET
SP
25.8
5.3
24.0
13.0
26 Buck Herzog
CIN
SS
30.0
5.3
20.5
5.5
27 Bert Gallia
WS1
SP
23.7
5.0
21.0
11.9
28 Doc Ayers
WS1
SP
24.1
4.9
18.9
11.4
29 Bobby Veach
DET
LF
27.0
4.9
30.1
17.5
30 Ray Fisher
NYA
SP
27.7
4.8
20.9
12.3
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com
*Rookie
Any questions, comments, suggestions?? Please contact the webmaster at BaseballGauge@gmail.com

The statistics used were obtained free of charge from The Baseball Databank.

Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".

Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

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