1923 Season
1922 / 1924
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1923 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 Babe Ruth
NYA
RF
28.4
14.0
54.1
41.5
2 Dolf Luque
CIN
SP
32.9
10.8
38.4
27.2
3 Harry Heilmann
DET
RF
28.9
9.3
35.1
23.8
4 Tris Speaker
CLE
CF
35.2
9.0
35.6
21.8
5 Ken Williams
SLA
LF
33.0
7.6
28.1
16.2
6 Joe Sewell
CLE
SS
24.7
7.5
29.3
14.2
7 George Uhle
CLE
SP
24.8
7.5
27.4
14.1
8 Frankie Frisch
NY1
2B
24.8
7.1
31.5
17.6
9 Rogers Hornsby
SLN
2B
27.2
6.7
25.1
15.7
10 Jimmy Ring
PHI
SP
28.4
6.4
20.2
9.5
11 Urban Shocker
SLA
SP
32.9
6.4
24.7
14.3
12 Eddie Collins
CHA
2B
36.2
6.3
24.0
11.3
13 Howard Ehmke
BOS
SP
29.2
6.2
23.9
12.1
14 Herb Pennock
NYA
SP
29.4
5.9
23.7
14.8
15 Sloppy Thurston*
MULT
SW
24.1
5.7
16.8
9.7
16 Elam Vangilder
SLA
SP
27.2
5.7
23.3
12.8
17 Eddie Rommel
PHA
SP
25.8
5.6
23.3
12.3
18 Jack Fournier
BRO
1B
33.8
5.6
26.7
16.8
19 Hooks Dauss
DET
SP
33.8
5.6
23.7
11.9
20 Joe Bush
NYA
SP
30.6
5.5
24.1
13.8
21 Ty Cobb
DET
CF
36.5
5.5
23.7
10.9
22 Eppa Rixey
CIN
SP
32.2
5.4
26.9
16.1
23 Pete Alexander
CHN
SP
36.3
5.2
26.6
15.9
24 Charlie Jamieson
CLE
LF
30.4
5.2
25.5
12.1
25 Max Carey
PIT
CF
33.5
5.0
29.4
15.5
26 Joe Harris
BOS
LF
32.1
4.7
22.9
12.7
27 Bubbles Hargrave
CIN
C
31.0
4.7
24.8
14.4
28 Jack Quinn
BOS
SP
40.0
4.6
17.4
8.4
29 Walter Johnson
WS1
SP
35.7
4.6
16.8
7.0
30 Sam Rice
WS1
RF
33.4
4.6
24.6
12.5
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