1884 MLB Saves by Team

The St. Louis Maroons led all of MLB in saves in 1884, with 6, 4 ahead of the Boston Beaneaters. The average across 33 MLB teams is 0.5.

#	Team	League	G	SV
1	St. Louis Maroons	UA	113	6
2	Boston Beaneaters	NL	116	2
2	Providence Grays	NL	114	2
4	Baltimore Orioles	AA	108	1
4	Boston Reds	UA	109	1
4	Buffalo Bisons	NL	114	1
4	Cincinnati Outlaw Reds	UA	103	1
4	Columbus Buckeyes	AA	110	1
4	Philadelphia Quakers	NL	113	1
4	Toledo Blue Stockings	AA	109	1
	MLB average			0.5
11	Altoona Mountain City	UA	25	0
11	Baltimore Monumentals	UA	105	0
11	Brooklyn Atlantics	AA	109	0
11	Chicago White Stockings	NL	112	0
11	Chicago/Pittsburgh (Union League)	UA	92	0
11	Cincinnati Red Stockings	AA	112	0
11	Cleveland Blues	NL	113	0
11	Detroit Wolverines	NL	114	0
11	Indianapolis Hoosiers	AA	110	0
11	Kansas City Cowboys	UA	82	0
11	Louisville Eclipse	AA	110	0
11	Milwaukee Brewers	UA	12	0
11	New York Gothams	NL	116	0
11	New York Metropolitans	AA	112	0
11	Philadelphia Athletics	AA	108	0
11	Philadelphia Keystones	UA	67	0
11	Pittsburg Alleghenys	AA	110	0
11	Richmond Virginians	AA	45	0
11	St. Louis Browns	AA	110	0
11	St. Paul White Caps	UA	9	0
11	Washington Nationals	UA	112	0
11	Washington Nationals	AA	63	0
11	Wilmington Quicksteps	UA	17	0

A team's total is its players' numbers for the club added up, so a player traded mid-season counts for each team only what he did there. Rates such as ERA and batting average are worked out from the team's summed totals, not averaged across players.