1983 Season
1982 / 1984
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Top HitterCal
Ripken
Top PitcherJohn
Denny

1983 Major League Player of the Year

Winner
Player
Tm
Pos
Cal Ripken
BAL
SS
22.9
8.2
36.2
20.5
by Wins Above Replacement
  Player
Tm
Pos
1 Cal Ripken
BAL
SS
22.9
8.2
36.2
20.5
2 Wade Boggs
BOS
3B
25.0
7.8
34.0
20.9
3 John Denny
PHI
SP
30.6
7.5
22.5
15.2
4 Dickie Thon
HOU
SS
25.0
7.4
31.0
15.4
5 Robin Yount
ML4
SS
27.8
7.2
33.1
19.1
6 Dale Murphy
ATL
CF
27.3
7.1
31.5
17.4
7 Gary Carter
MON
C
29.2
7.1
25.7
11.3
8 Dave Stieb
TOR
SP
25.9
7.0
24.1
15.5
9 Rickey Henderson
OAK
LF
24.5
6.9
30.0
19.1
10 Mike Schmidt
PHI
3B
33.8
6.8
35.4
21.9
11 Andre Dawson
MON
CF
29.0
6.8
27.3
12.8
12 Mario Soto
CIN
SP
27.0
6.7
24.6
16.4
13 Lou Whitaker
DET
2B
26.1
6.7
28.8
14.2
14 Eddie Murray
BAL
1B
27.4
6.6
31.1
19.8
15 Chet Lemon
DET
CF
28.4
6.2
20.6
9.0
16 Jose Cruz
HOU
LF
35.9
6.2
30.1
17.6
17 Alan Trammell
DET
SS
25.4
6.0
25.6
12.8
18 Lloyd Moseby
TOR
CF
23.7
6.0
25.0
13.1
19 Tim Raines
MON
LF
23.8
5.9
28.3
15.1
20 Steve Carlton
PHI
SP
38.5
5.7
18.2
9.8
21 Jim Rice
BOS
LF
30.3
5.6
24.7
12.7
22 Keith Hernandez
MULT
1B
29.7
5.6
22.5
11.3
23 Dan Quisenberry
KCA
RP
30.4
5.5
27.8
20.2
24 Pedro Guerrero
LAN
3B
27.0
5.5
32.0
18.4
25 Scott McGregor
BAL
SP
29.5
5.5
20.5
12.4
26 Ron Guidry
NYA
SP
32.8
5.3
19.4
11.6
27 Richard Dotson
CHA
SP
24.5
5.1
21.1
13.6
28 Matt Young*
SEA
SP
24.9
5.1
15.5
9.1
29 Johnny Ray
PIT
2B
26.3
5.1
20.1
6.4
30 Lee Smith
CHN
RP
25.6
4.8
18.3
12.4
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