1922 Season
1921 / 1923
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1922 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 Rogers Hornsby
SLN
2B
26.2
10.0
47.2
32.9
2 Red Faber
CHA
SP
33.8
9.4
31.0
17.7
3 George Sisler
SLA
1B
29.3
8.7
29.4
18.2
4 Ken Williams
SLA
LF
32.0
7.9
30.0
17.2
5 Urban Shocker
SLA
SP
31.9
7.5
27.3
14.3
6 Wilbur Cooper
PIT
SP
30.4
7.3
26.1
15.7
7 Eddie Rommel
PHA
SP
24.8
7.1
27.1
16.2
8 Tris Speaker
CLE
CF
34.2
6.9
29.7
19.4
9 Bob Shawkey
NYA
SP
31.6
6.7
27.7
16.5
10 Ty Cobb
DET
CF
35.5
6.7
29.0
16.7
11 Babe Ruth
NYA
LF
27.4
6.3
28.2
19.2
12 Dave Bancroft
NY1
SS
31.2
6.0
27.3
10.8
13 Elam Vangilder
SLA
SP
26.2
5.7
21.1
12.0
14 Johnny Morrison
PIT
SP
26.7
5.7
21.8
11.6
15 Stan Coveleski
CLE
SP
33.0
5.6
22.1
11.7
16 Ray Grimes
CHN
1B
28.8
5.6
28.6
18.2
17 Walter Johnson
WS1
SP
34.7
5.5
20.8
10.3
18 George Uhle
CLE
SP
23.8
5.5
21.0
10.2
19 Harry Heilmann
DET
RF
27.9
5.4
24.1
14.6
20 Herman Pillette*
DET
SP
25.5
5.3
21.6
11.3
21 Dutch Ruether
BRO
SP
28.8
5.2
20.3
10.8
22 Max Carey
PIT
CF
32.5
5.1
28.8
14.2
23 Joe Bush
NYA
SP
29.6
4.9
25.7
16.1
24 Bobby Veach
DET
LF
34.0
4.9
22.5
9.5
25 Charlie Hollocher
CHN
SS
26.1
4.8
24.2
8.6
26 Lee Meadows
PHI
SP
28.0
4.7
16.8
8.4
27 Wally Pipp
NYA
1B
29.4
4.6
21.6
10.1
28 Jack Quinn
BOS
SP
39.0
4.5
19.4
9.9
29 Dixie Leverett*
CHA
SP
28.3
4.5
17.4
9.0
30 Jeff Pfeffer
SLN
SP
34.3
4.5
20.1
10.8
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