1878 Season
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1878 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 Tommy Bond
BSN
SP
22.2
13.3
57.5
38.3
2 Sam Weaver*
ML2
SP
23.0
10.1
15.9
2.1
3 Terry Larkin
CHN
SP
0.0
5.5
33.5
15.1
4 John Ward*
PRO
SP
18.3
4.8
22.6
10.7
5 Orator Shaffer
IN1
RF
26.8
3.5
15.1
10.0
6 Bob Ferguson
CHN
SS
33.4
3.1
11.8
5.8
7 Paul Hines
PRO
CF
23.3
2.8
16.3
11.2
8 Charley Jones
CN1
LF
28.2
2.7
14.1
9.2
9 Joe Gerhardt
CN1
2B
23.4
2.5
10.0
4.6
10 Deacon White
CN1
C
30.6
2.4
11.4
5.6
11 Joe Start
CHN
1B
35.7
2.4
10.6
5.6
12 Abner Dalrymple*
ML2
LF
20.8
2.3
9.3
4.3
13 John Clapp
IN1
LF
27.0
2.1
10.0
4.7
14 Jim McCormick*
IN1
SP
21.7
2.1
6.8
2.5
15 Tom York
PRO
LF
28.0
2.0
14.1
9.1
16 Dick Higham
PRO
RF
27.6
2.0
13.0
7.9
17 Lew Brown
PRO
C
20.4
1.8
13.2
7.7
18 Cal McVey
CN1
3B
28.8
1.7
11.5
5.8
19 Chub Sullivan*
CN1
1B
22.5
1.7
4.6
0.2
20 Cap Anson
CHN
LF
26.2
1.7
9.4
4.3
21 Bobby Mitchell
CN1
SP
22.4
1.6
6.5
3.4
22 Silver Flint*
IN1
C
22.9
1.4
3.6
-2.4
23 Jack Burdock
BSN
2B
26.3
1.3
12.4
7.2
24 King Kelly*
CN1
RF
20.5
1.2
7.7
2.8
25 John Peters
ML2
2B
28.2
1.2
5.7
0.3
26 Bill Harbidge
CHN
C
23.3
1.2
6.0
0.5
27 Will White*
CN1
SP
23.7
1.0
29.8
13.0
28 Jim O'Rourke
BSN
CF
27.8
0.9
14.9
9.8
29 Billy Geer
CN1
SS
18.9
0.9
5.3
-0.4
30 Ned Williamson*
IN1
3B
20.7
0.9
5.0
-0.5
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com
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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.
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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