1982 Season
1981 / 1983
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Top HitterRobin
Yount
Top PitcherDave
Stieb

1982 Major League Player of the Year

Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
Robin Yount
ML4
SS
26.8
10.5
39.1
24.0
by Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Robin Yount
ML4
SS
26.8
10.5
39.1
24.0
2 Gary Carter
MON
C
28.2
8.6
32.5
17.2
3 Andre Dawson
MON
CF
28.0
7.9
25.9
12.4
4 Steve Rogers
MON
SP
32.7
7.7
23.4
15.0
5 Mario Soto
CIN
SP
26.0
7.7
19.8
12.0
6 Dave Stieb
TOR
SP
24.9
7.7
24.9
16.4
7 Doug DeCinces
CAL
3B
31.8
7.6
27.1
14.4
8 Mike Schmidt
PHI
3B
32.8
7.4
35.9
23.1
9 Pedro Guerrero
LAN
RF
26.0
6.8
29.6
17.0
10 Rickey Henderson
OAK
LF
23.5
6.7
27.6
16.0
11 Toby Harrah
CLE
3B
33.7
6.5
28.7
15.3
12 Dwight Evans
BOS
RF
30.7
6.4
30.6
18.0
13 Willie Wilson
KCA
LF
27.0
6.3
24.3
13.4
14 Paul Molitor
ML4
3B
25.9
6.2
30.0
16.0
15 Bill Madlock
PIT
3B
31.5
6.2
24.6
11.9
16 Steve Carlton
PHI
SP
37.5
6.2
24.2
15.2
17 Dickie Thon
HOU
SS
24.0
6.1
22.3
10.1
18 Lonnie Smith
SLN
LF
26.5
6.1
25.7
13.1
19 Dale Murphy
ATL
CF
26.3
6.1
32.1
18.2
20 Joe Niekro
HOU
SP
37.7
6.1
24.4
16.2
21 George Brett
KCA
3B
29.1
6.0
26.5
14.5
22 Sixto Lezcano
SDN
RF
28.6
5.9
26.9
16.5
23 Dwayne Murphy
OAK
CF
27.3
5.9
23.9
11.1
24 Rick Sutcliffe
CLE
SP
26.0
5.7
20.2
13.5
25 Cecil Cooper
ML4
1B
32.5
5.6
29.5
18.0
26 Buddy Bell
TEX
3B
30.8
5.6
24.7
12.9
27 Tom Brunansky*
MIN
RF
21.9
5.6
18.2
8.4
28 Brian Downing
CAL
LF
31.7
5.6
24.2
11.7
29 Greg Minton
SFN
RP
30.9
5.5
19.8
12.8
30 Joaquin Andujar
SLN
SP
29.5
5.5
22.3
14.2
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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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James