1921 Season
1920 / 1922
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1921 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 Babe Ruth
NYA
LF
26.4
12.6
52.5
39.5
2 Red Faber
CHA
SP
32.8
11.0
36.8
24.4
3 Rogers Hornsby
SLN
2B
25.2
10.8
40.2
26.1
4 Urban Shocker
SLA
SP
30.9
8.5
29.2
17.0
5 Burleigh Grimes
BRO
SP
27.9
8.0
27.6
16.8
6 Dave Bancroft
NY1
SS
30.2
7.3
30.6
14.8
7 Sam Jones
BOS
SP
28.9
7.3
28.0
16.8
8 Carl Mays
NYA
SP
29.6
7.2
34.4
21.8
9 Frankie Frisch
NY1
3B
22.8
6.8
31.8
17.4
10 Harry Heilmann
DET
RF
26.9
6.8
28.1
16.1
11 Ty Cobb
DET
CF
34.5
6.7
25.8
14.5
12 Tris Speaker
CLE
CF
33.2
6.5
27.1
15.6
13 George Mogridge
WS1
SP
32.4
6.3
26.5
15.7
14 Stan Coveleski
CLE
SP
32.0
6.3
25.2
13.4
15 Joe Bush
BOS
SP
28.6
5.9
23.6
13.9
16 George Sisler
SLA
1B
28.3
5.7
27.2
16.5
17 Ken Williams
SLA
LF
31.0
5.4
27.4
15.5
18 Pete Alexander
CHN
SP
34.3
5.4
20.3
11.3
19 Bobby Veach
DET
LF
33.0
5.4
22.6
10.1
20 Walter Johnson
WS1
SP
33.7
5.3
22.4
12.4
21 Waite Hoyt
NYA
SP
21.8
5.3
23.9
13.4
22 Eddie Rommel
PHA
SP
23.8
5.2
19.0
8.4
23 Austin McHenry
SLN
LF
25.8
5.0
24.7
12.6
24 Wilbur Cooper
PIT
SP
29.4
5.0
26.0
14.3
25 Dolf Luque
CIN
SP
30.9
5.0
21.5
10.7
26 Joe Oeschger
BSN
SP
29.1
4.9
19.3
8.6
27 Joe Sewell*
CLE
SS
22.7
4.9
26.5
11.2
28 Whitey Glazner*
PIT
SP
27.8
4.6
21.9
13.5
29 Larry Gardner
CLE
3B
35.1
4.6
23.4
9.1
30 Eddie Collins
CHA
2B
34.2
4.5
20.9
8.7
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com
*Rookie
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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