1878 National League Pitching Leaders

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National League Pitching Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all

Wins Above Replacement A single number that presents the number of wins the player added to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add. Scale for a single-season: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Bond • BSN 13.4

2. Weaver • MLG 10.2

3. Larkin • CHC 5.6

4. Ward • PRO 4.7

5. Shafer • IND 3.5

6. Ferguson • CHC 3.1

7. Hines • PRO 2.8

8. Jones • CIN 2.8

9. Gerhardt • CIN 2.5

10. White • CIN 2.4

WAR for Pitchers

Wins Above Replacement for Pitchers A single number that presents the number of wins the player added to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add. This value includes defensive support and includes additional value for high leverage situations. Scale: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Bond • BSN 13.9

2. Weaver • MLG 10.4

3. Ward • PRO 4.6

4. Larkin • CHC 4.1

5. McCormick • IND 2.3

6. White • CIN 2.1

7. Mitchell • CIN 1.5

8. Corey • PRO 0.4

9. Ellick • MLG 0.2

10. Healey • 2TM 0.0

Earned Run Average

9 * ER / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played. Bold indicates lowest ERA using current stats Gold means awarded ERA title at end of year.

1. Ward • PRO 1.51

2. McCormick • IND 1.69

3. White • CIN 1.79

4. Weaver • MLG 1.95

5. Bond • BSN 2.06

6. Mitchell • CIN 2.14

7. Larkin • CHC 2.24

8. Healey • 2TM 2.39

9. Nolan • IND 2.57

10. Wheeler • PRO 3.48

Wins

1. Bond • BSN 40

2. White • CIN 30

3. Larkin • CHC 29

4. Ward • PRO 22

5. Nolan • IND 13

6. Weaver • MLG 12

7. Mitchell • CIN 7

8. Wheeler • PRO 6

Healey • 2TM 6

10. McCormick • IND 5

Win-Loss %

Win-Loss Percentage W / (W + L) For players, leaders need one decision for every ten team games. For managers, minimum to qualify for leading is 320 games.

1. Wheeler • PRO .857

2. Mitchell • CIN .778

3. Bond • BSN .678

4. Ward • PRO .629

5. White • CIN .588

6. Larkin • CHC .527

7. Healey • 2TM .462

8. McCormick • IND .385

9. Nolan • IND .371

10. Nichols • PRO .364

Walks & Hits per IP

(BB + H)/IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Weaver • MLG 1.023

2. Ward • PRO 1.024

3. Larkin • CHC 1.071

4. Mitchell • CIN 1.088

5. White • CIN 1.115

6. Bond • BSN 1.134

7. Nolan • IND 1.190

8. McCormick • IND 1.222

9. Healey • 2TM 1.283

10. Wheeler • PRO 1.532

Hits per 9 IP

9 x H / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Mitchell • CIN 7.763

2. Ward • PRO 8.299

3. Weaver • MLG 8.718

4. Larkin • CHC 9.089

5. White • CIN 9.173

6. Nolan • IND 9.259

7. Bond • BSN 9.648

8. McCormick • IND 9.846

9. Healey • 2TM 9.956

10. Wheeler • PRO 10.161

Bases On Balls per 9 IP

9 x BB / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Weaver • MLG 0.493

2. Larkin • CHC 0.551

3. Bond • BSN 0.558

4. Nichols • PRO 0.735

5. White • CIN 0.865

6. Ward • PRO 0.916

7. McCormick • IND 1.154

8. Nolan • IND 1.452

9. Healey • 2TM 1.593

10. Golden • MLG 1.845

Strikeouts per 9 IP

9 x SO / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Mitchell • CIN 5.738

2. Wheeler • PRO 3.629

3. White • CIN 3.250

4. Nolan • IND 3.242

5. Ward • PRO 3.126

6. Bond • BSN 3.075

7. Golden • MLG 2.907

8. Larkin • CHC 2.899

9. McCormick • IND 2.769

10. Weaver • MLG 2.232

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Bond • BSN 59

2. Larkin • CHC 56

3. White • CIN 52

4. Weaver • MLG 45

5. Nolan • IND 38

6. Ward • PRO 37

7. Golden • MLG 22

8. Healey • 2TM 14

McCormick • IND 14

10. Nichols • PRO 11

Saves

1. Healey • 2TM 1

Innings Pitched

1. Bond • BSN 532.2

2. Larkin • CHC 506.0

3. White • CIN 468.0

4. Weaver • MLG 383.0

5. Nolan • IND 347.0

6. Ward • PRO 334.0

7. Golden • MLG 161.0

8. McCormick • IND 117.0

9. Healey • 2TM 113.0

10. Nichols • PRO 98.0

Strikeouts

1. Bond • BSN 182

2. White • CIN 169

3. Larkin • CHC 163

4. Nolan • IND 125

5. Ward • PRO 116

6. Weaver • MLG 95

7. Golden • MLG 52

8. Mitchell • CIN 51

9. McCormick • IND 36

10. Wheeler • PRO 25

Games Started

1. Bond • BSN 59

2. Larkin • CHC 56

3. White • CIN 52

4. Weaver • MLG 43

5. Nolan • IND 38

6. Ward • PRO 37

7. Golden • MLG 18

8. McCormick • IND 14

9. Healey • 2TM 13

10. Nichols • PRO 10

Complete Games

Complete Game

1. Bond • BSN 57

2. Larkin • CHC 56

3. White • CIN 52

4. Weaver • MLG 39

5. Ward • PRO 37

Nolan • IND 37

7. Golden • MLG 15

8. Healey • 2TM 12

McCormick • IND 12

10. Nichols • PRO 10

Shutouts

Shutouts No runs allowed and a complete game.

1. Bond • BSN 9

2. Ward • PRO 6

3. White • CIN 5

4. Larkin • CHC 1

McCormick • IND 1

Mitchell • CIN 1

Nolan • IND 1

Weaver • MLG 1

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Bond • BSN 5

2. Larkin • CHC 4

3. Ward • PRO 3

4. Weaver • MLG 2

Healey • 2TM 2

6. Golden • MLG 1

Manning • BSN 1

McKelvy • IND 1

Mitchell • CIN 1

Nolan • IND 1

Wheeler • PRO 1

White • CIN 1

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Nolan • IND 56

2. White • CIN 45

3. Ward • PRO 34

4. Bond • BSN 33

Golden • MLG 33

6. Larkin • CHC 31

7. Wheeler • PRO 25

8. Weaver • MLG 21

9. Healey • 2TM 20

10. Mitchell • CIN 18

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Bond • BSN 571

2. Larkin • CHC 511

3. White • CIN 477

4. Weaver • MLG 371

5. Nolan • IND 357

6. Ward • PRO 308

7. Golden • MLG 217

8. Nichols • PRO 157

9. McCormick • IND 128

10. Healey • 2TM 125

Strikeouts / Base On Balls

SO/W or SO/BB For recent years, pitching leaders need 1 IP per team game played. No batting leaders computed.

1. Bond • BSN 5.515

2. Larkin • CHC 5.258

3. Weaver • MLG 4.524

4. White • CIN 3.756

5. Ward • PRO 3.412

6. Mitchell • CIN 2.833

7. Nichols • PRO 2.625

8. McCormick • IND 2.400

9. Nolan • IND 2.232

10. Golden • MLG 1.576

Home Runs per 9 IP

9 x HR / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. McCormick • IND 0.000

Nichols • PRO 0.000

3. White • CIN 0.019

4. Nolan • IND 0.026

5. Weaver • MLG 0.047

6. Golden • MLG 0.056

7. Larkin • CHC 0.071

8. Ward • PRO 0.081

9. Bond • BSN 0.084

10. Mitchell • CIN 0.113

Losses

1. Weaver • MLG 31

2. Larkin • CHC 26

3. Nolan • IND 22

4. White • CIN 21

5. Bond • BSN 19

6. Golden • MLG 13

Ward • PRO 13

8. McCormick • IND 8

9. Healey • 2TM 7

Nichols • PRO 7

Earned Runs

Earned Runs Allowed

1. Larkin • CHC 126

2. Bond • BSN 122

3. Nolan • IND 99

4. White • CIN 93

5. Weaver • MLG 83

6. Golden • MLG 74

7. Ward • PRO 56

8. Nichols • PRO 46

9. Healey • 2TM 30

10. Wheeler • PRO 24

Wild Pitches

1. White • CIN 40

2. Larkin • CHC 37

3. Ward • PRO 26

4. Weaver • MLG 25

5. Golden • MLG 24

6. Nolan • IND 21

7. Wheeler • PRO 13

Bond • BSN 13

9. Nichols • PRO 9

10. Healey • 2TM 8

Batters Faced

1. Bond • BSN 2,159

2. Larkin • CHC 2,105

3. White • CIN 1,939

4. Weaver • MLG 1,589

5. Nolan • IND 1,469

6. Ward • PRO 1,365

7. Golden • MLG 769

8. McCormick • IND 490

9. Healey • 2TM 480

10. Nichols • PRO 464

Games Finished

Games Finished Credited to the last pitcher to appear for a team in a game. Complete Games are not counted as Games Finished.

1. Golden • MLG 4

2. McKelvy • IND 3

3. Weaver • MLG 2

4. Allison • PRO 1

Bond • BSN 1

Ellick • MLG 1

Manning • BSN 1

Nichols • PRO 1

Wheeler • PRO 1

Healey • 2TM 1

Adjusted ERA+

ERA+ 100*[lgERA/ERA] Adjusted to the player’s ballpark(s).

1. Ward • PRO 147

2. Weaver • MLG 135

3. McCormick • IND 122

4. White • CIN 120

5. Bond • BSN 115

6. Larkin • CHC 109

7. Mitchell • CIN 101

8. Healey • 2TM 88

9. Nolan • IND 80

10. Wheeler • PRO 64

Fielding Independent Pitching

Fielding Independent Pitching this stat measures a pitcher's effectiveness at preventing HR, BB, HBP and causing SO <tt>(13*HR + 3*(BB+HBP) - 2*SO)/IP + Constantlg</tt> The constant is set so that each season major-league average FIP is the same as the major-league avg ERA

1. Mitchell • CIN 2.10

2. White • CIN 2.13

3. Bond • BSN 2.16

4. Larkin • CHC 2.18

5. Ward • PRO 2.26

6. Weaver • MLG 2.27

7. McCormick • IND 2.31

8. Nolan • IND 2.34

9. Nichols • PRO 2.35

10. Golden • MLG 2.59

Adj. Pitching Runs

Adjusted Pitching Runs A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others that estimates a pitcher’s total contributions to a team’s runs total via linear weights. 0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Bond • BSN 29

2. Ward • PRO 21

3. Weaver • MLG 20

4. White • CIN 10

5. Larkin • CHC 10

6. McCormick • IND 6

7. Mitchell • CIN 3

8. Corey • PRO 1

9. Ellick • MLG 0

Adj. Pitching Wins

Adjusted Pitching Wins A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others that estimates a pitcher’s total contributions to a team’s wins with his arm. 0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Bond • BSN 2.8

2. Ward • PRO 2.1

3. Weaver • MLG 1.9

4. White • CIN 1.0

5. Larkin • CHC 0.9

6. McCormick • IND 0.6

7. Mitchell • CIN 0.3

8. Corey • PRO 0.1

9. Ellick • MLG 0.0

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order.

For rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/Team Game (batting), 1.0 IP/Team Game (pitching), 0.67 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/Team Game (W-L%) is needed for single-season leaderboards. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1898, so all leaders are since 1898. Explanation of min. requirements