1914 Season
1913 / 1915
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1914 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 Walter Johnson
WS1
SP
26.7
13.0
35.5
22.7
2 Tris Speaker
BOS
CF
26.2
9.9
44.8
30.8
3 Dutch Leonard
BOS
SP
22.2
9.2
27.9
20.2
4 Eddie Collins
PHA
2B
27.2
9.0
42.6
28.8
5 Pete Alexander
PHI
SP
27.3
8.9
25.3
12.8
6 Bill James
BSN
SP
22.3
8.7
34.8
23.1
7 Benny Kauff*
IND
RF
24.5
7.9
37.8
25.2
8 Claude Hendrix
CHF
SP
25.2
7.8
36.9
23.8
9 Jeff Pfeffer*
BRO
SP
26.3
7.6
25.9
14.8
10 Cy Falkenberg
IND
SP
33.5
7.6
34.0
20.5
11 Frank Baker
PHA
3B
28.3
7.3
33.9
20.0
12 Jack Quinn
BLF
SP
31.0
7.0
32.7
20.4
13 Carl Weilman
SLA
SP
24.6
6.9
23.5
13.2
14 Ray Caldwell
NYA
SP
26.2
6.9
20.3
12.8
15 Russ Ford
BUF
SP
31.2
6.6
28.6
19.8
16 George Burns
NY1
LF
24.6
6.5
32.0
19.2
17 Dick Rudolph
BSN
SP
26.9
6.3
30.1
18.3
18 George Suggs
BLF
SP
32.0
6.3
28.6
17.2
19 Sam Crawford
DET
RF
34.2
6.2
29.5
16.8
20 Erskine Mayer
PHI
SP
24.5
6.2
19.9
8.7
21 Earl Hamilton
SLA
SP
23.0
5.8
20.2
9.8
22 Tilly Walker
SLA
LF
26.8
5.8
26.2
14.6
23 Ty Cobb
DET
CF
27.5
5.6
25.9
17.3
24 Donie Bush
DET
SS
26.7
5.6
23.2
6.8
25 Slim Sallee
SLN
SP
29.4
5.5
24.1
14.2
26 Jeff Tesreau
NY1
SP
26.3
5.5
25.4
14.1
27 Harry Coveleski
DET
SP
28.2
5.3
22.0
11.5
28 Buck Herzog
CIN
SS
29.0
5.3
21.8
8.5
29 Dutch Zwilling*
CHF
CF
25.7
5.1
29.3
16.1
30 Rabbit Maranville
BSN
SS
22.6
5.1
24.5
9.0
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