1911 Season
1910 / 1912
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1911 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 Ty Cobb
DET
CF
24.5
10.7
47.8
34.5
2 Joe Jackson*
CLE
RF
22.0
9.2
38.0
26.0
3 Ed Walsh
CHA
SP
30.1
9.1
30.8
16.7
4 Nap Rucker
BRO
SP
26.8
8.9
29.1
18.4
5 Walter Johnson
WS1
SP
23.7
8.8
30.7
18.4
6 Vean Gregg*
CLE
SP
26.2
8.8
28.3
19.0
7 Pete Alexander*
PHI
SP
24.3
8.0
32.9
20.5
8 Christy Mathewson
NY1
SP
30.9
7.3
31.4
21.0
9 Babe Adams
PIT
SP
29.1
6.8
23.7
13.8
10 Russ Ford
NYA
SP
28.2
6.6
28.1
17.4
11 Honus Wagner
PIT
SS
37.4
6.6
30.7
18.4
12 Lefty Leifield
PIT
SP
27.8
6.6
22.9
12.1
13 Eddie Collins
PHA
2B
24.2
6.5
35.2
23.1
14 Frank Baker
PHA
3B
25.3
6.4
35.0
20.9
15 Joe Wood
BOS
SP
21.7
6.4
25.3
14.8
16 Eddie Plank
PHA
SP
35.8
6.3
22.4
12.6
17 George Mullin
DET
SP
31.0
6.3
22.3
13.3
18 Ray Caldwell*
NYA
SP
23.2
6.2
21.9
11.8
19 Tris Speaker
BOS
CF
23.2
6.1
26.2
14.1
20 Rube Marquard
NY1
SP
24.7
5.8
26.6
17.1
21 Chief Bender
PHA
SP
27.2
5.7
18.9
10.7
22 Sam Crawford
DET
RF
31.2
5.7
32.5
20.8
23 Birdie Cree
NYA
LF
28.7
5.5
25.3
14.1
24 Frank Schulte
CHN
RF
28.8
5.2
30.8
18.3
25 Larry Doyle
NY1
2B
24.9
5.2
26.7
13.9
26 Ed Konetchy
SLN
1B
25.8
5.1
25.7
13.7
27 Jimmy Sheckard
CHN
LF
32.6
5.0
30.7
17.6
28 Clyde Milan
WS1
CF
24.3
5.0
27.5
13.2
29 Earl Moore
PHI
SP
31.9
4.9
23.5
13.1
30 George Suggs
CIN
SP
29.0
4.8
16.3
7.5
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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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