1878 Season
1877 / 1879














Baseball-Reference Links
Pitching Vs
Amateur Draft
Links
Top HitterOrator
Shaffer
Top PitcherTommy
Bond

1878 National League Cy Young Award

by Votes
 
Pitching
  Player Tm Pos Age
The Cy Young Award was not awarded this season
by Wins Above Replacement
Pitching
  Player Tm Pos Age
1 Tommy Bond
BSN
SP
22.2
13.8
57.5
39.4
2 Sam Weaver *
ML2
SP
23.0
10.3
15.8
3.0
3 John Ward *
PRO
SP
18.3
4.8
22.0
10.6
4 Terry Larkin
CHN
SP
0.0
4.0
27.8
10.6
5 Jim McCormick *
IN1
SP
21.7
2.3
6.7
2.8
6 Will White *
CN1
SP
23.7
2.0
29.8
13.9
7 Bobby Mitchell
CN1
SP
22.4
1.5
6.0
3.3
8 Fred Corey *
PRO
SP
23.6
0.4
1.3
0.5
9 Joe Ellick *
ML2
C
24.2
0.2
0.1
0.1
10 Tom Healey *
MULT
SP
25.6
0.1
5.2
1.4
11 Bob Ferguson
CHN
SS
33.4
0.0
0.0
0.0
12 Alamazoo Jennings *
ML2
C
27.6
0.0
0.0
0.0
13 Chub Sullivan *
CN1
1B
22.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
14 Frank Bliss *
ML2
3B
25.6
0.0
0.0
0.0
15 Will Foley
ML2
3B
22.6
0.0
0.0
0.0
16 Jake Knowdell
ML2
C
37.9
0.0
0.0
0.0
17 John Peters
ML2
2B
28.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
18 Bill Traffley *
CHN
C
18.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
19 Jack Burdock
BSN
2B
26.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
20 Joe Quest *
IN1
2B
25.6
0.0
0.0
0.0
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