1905 Season
1904 / 1906
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1905 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 Honus Wagner
PIT
SS
31.4
10.1
44.9
30.5
2 Christy Mathewson
NY1
SP
24.9
10.1
39.0
26.9
3 Rube Waddell
PHA
SP
28.7
9.2
33.8
21.9
4 Irv Young*
BSN
SP
27.9
8.0
29.0
15.6
5 Cy Seymour
CIN
CF
32.6
8.0
40.5
27.0
6 Ed Killian
DET
SP
28.6
7.9
28.8
17.5
7 Cy Young
BOS
SP
38.3
7.6
28.0
16.4
8 Ed Reulbach*
CHN
SP
22.6
7.3
30.3
19.8
9 Eddie Plank
PHA
SP
29.8
7.3
28.6
16.1
10 George Davis
CHA
SS
34.9
7.2
27.3
12.2
11 Bob Ewing
CIN
SP
32.2
6.8
23.2
12.0
12 Harry Howell
SLA
SP
28.6
6.6
19.1
7.3
13 Mike Donlin
NY1
CF
27.1
6.5
37.6
23.5
14 Jesse Tannehill
BOS
SP
31.0
6.4
24.8
15.0
15 Addie Joss
CLE
SP
25.2
5.9
23.5
13.2
16 Harry Davis
PHA
1B
32.0
5.9
26.4
14.5
17 Al Orth
NYA
SP
32.8
5.9
19.6
8.5
18 Frank Chance
CHN
1B
28.8
5.6
24.7
15.5
19 Bill Dahlen
NY1
SS
35.5
5.5
22.5
8.3
20 John Titus
PHI
RF
29.4
5.5
28.7
16.8
21 Roy Thomas
PHI
CF
31.3
5.5
30.8
16.7
22 Jack Chesbro
NYA
SP
31.1
5.5
21.7
10.8
23 Elmer Flick
CLE
RF
29.5
5.3
28.4
17.8
24 Danny Murphy
PHA
2B
28.9
5.3
25.6
12.4
25 Sam Crawford
DET
RF
25.2
5.3
34.0
22.2
26 Bobby Wallace
SLA
SS
31.7
5.2
20.0
4.9
27 Doc White
CHA
SP
26.2
5.2
21.3
12.0
28 Sherry Magee
PHI
LF
20.9
5.1
27.9
14.8
29 Jiggs Donahue
CHA
1B
26.0
5.0
22.5
11.4
30 Dan McGann
NY1
1B
34.0
5.0
23.6
12.9
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