MLB Stats Server

Get available values from StatsAPI for use in other queries, or look up descriptions for values found in API results. For example, to get a list of leader categories to use when calling team_leaders(): statsapi.meta('leagueLeaderTypes')

Returns a dictionary of scoring plays for a given game containing 3 keys: * home - home team data * away - away team data * plays - sorted list of scoring play data

Pulls statcast play-level data from Baseball Savant for a given date range. INPUTS: start_dt: YYYY-MM-DD : the first date for which you want statcast data end_dt: YYYY-MM-DD : the last date for which you want statcast data team: optional (defaults to None) : city abbreviation of the team you want data for (e.g. SEA or BOS) verbose: bool (defaults to True) : whether to print updates on query progress parallel: bool (defaults to True) : whether to parallelize HTTP requests in large queries start_r

Pulls statcast pitch-level data from Baseball Savant for a given batter. ARGUMENTS start_dt : YYYY-MM-DD : the first date for which you want a player's statcast data end_dt : YYYY-MM-DD : the final date for which you want data player_id : INT : the player's MLBAM ID. Find this by via the get_playerid_lookup tool, finding the correct player, and selecting their key_mlbam. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, inclusive) end_row: option

Pulls statcast pitch-level data from Baseball Savant for a given pitcher. ARGUMENTS start_dt : YYYY-MM-DD : the first date for which you want a player's statcast data end_dt : YYYY-MM-DD : the final date for which you want data player_id : INT : the player's MLBAM ID. Find this by calling pthe get_playerid_lookup tool, finding the correct player, and selecting their key_mlbam. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, inclusive) end_row:

Retrieves batted ball data for all batters in a given year. ARGUMENTS year: The year for which you wish to retrieve batted ball data. Format: YYYY. minBBE: The minimum number of batted ball events for each player. If a player falls below this threshold, they will be excluded from the results. If no value is specified, only qualified batters will be returned. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, inclusive) end_row: optional (defaults

Retrieves batted ball against data for all qualified pitchers in a given year. ARGUMENTS year: The year for which you wish to retrieve batted ball against data. Format: YYYY. minBBE: The minimum number of batted ball against events for each pitcher. If a player falls below this threshold, they will be excluded from the results. If no value is specified, only qualified pitchers will be returned. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, in

Retrieves expected stats based on quality of batted ball contact in a given year. ARGUMENTS year: The year for which you wish to retrieve expected stats data. Format: YYYY. minPA: The minimum number of plate appearances for each player. If a player falls below this threshold, they will be excluded from the results. If no value is specified, only qualified batters will be returned. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, inclusive) end_r

Retrieves expected stats based on quality of batted ball contact against in a given year. ARGUMENTS year: The year for which you wish to retrieve expected stats data. Format: YYYY. minPA: The minimum number of plate appearances against for each pitcher. If a player falls below this threshold, they will be excluded from the results. If no value is specified, only qualified pitchers will be returned. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based

Retrieves percentile ranks for batters in a given year. ARGUMENTS year: The year for which you wish to retrieve percentile data. Format: YYYY. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, inclusive) end_row: optional (defaults to None) : ending row index for truncating large results (0-based, exclusive) Use start_row and end_row to limit response size when dealing with large datasets.

Retrieves percentile ranks for each player in a given year, including batters with 2.1 PA per team game and 1.25 for pitchers. It includes percentiles on expected stats, batted ball data, and spin rates, among others. ARGUMENTS year: The year for which you wish to retrieve percentile data. Format: YYYY. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, inclusive) end_row: optional (defaults to None) : ending row index for truncating large results

Retrieves outcome data for batters split by the pitch type in a given year. ARGUMENTS year: The year for which you wish to retrieve pitch arsenal data. Format: YYYY. minPA: The minimum number of plate appearances for each player. If a player falls below this threshold, they will be excluded from the results. If no value is specified, the default number of plate appearances is 25. start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, inclusive) end_ro

Retrieves high level stats on each pitcher's arsenal in a given year. ARGUMENTS year: The year for which you wish to retrieve expected stats data. Format: YYYY. minP: The minimum number of pitches thrown. If a player falls below this threshold, they will be excluded from the results. If no value is specified, only qualified pitchers will be returned. arsenal_type: The type of stat to retrieve for the pitchers' arsenals. Options include ["average_speed", "n_", "average_spin"], where "n_" corresp

Pulls statcast play-level data from Baseball Savant for a single game, identified by its MLB game ID (game_pk in statcast data) INPUTS: game_pk : 6-digit integer MLB game ID to retrieve start_row: optional (defaults to None) : starting row index for truncating large results (0-based, inclusive) end_row: optional (defaults to None) : ending row index for truncating large results (0-based, exclusive) Use start_row and end_row to limit response size when dealing with large datasets.

Produces a pitches overlaid on a strike zone using StatCast data Args: data: (pandas.DataFrame) StatCast pandas.DataFrame of StatCast pitcher data title: (str), default = '' Optional: Title of plot colorby: (str), default = 'pitch_type' Optional: Which category to color the mark with. 'pitch_type', 'pitcher', 'description' or a column within data legend_title: (str), default = based on colorby Optional: Title for the legend annotation: (str), default = 'pitch_type' Optional: What to annotate in

Produces a spraychart using statcast data overlayed on specified stadium Args: data: (pandas.DataFrame) StatCast pandas.DataFrame of StatCast batter data team_stadium: (str) Team whose stadium the hits will be overlaid on title: (str), default = '' Optional: Title of plot size: (int), default = 100 Optional: Size of hit circles on plot colorby: (str), default = 'events' Optional: Which category to color the mark with. 'events','player', or a column within data legend_title: (str), default = bas

Plots a given StatCast parameter split by bb_type Args: df: (pandas.DataFrame) pandas.DataFrame of StatCast batter data (retrieved through statcast, statcast_batter, etc) parameter: (str), default = 'launch_angle' Optional: Parameter to plot

Plots a scatter plot with each MLB team Args: data: (pandas.DataFrame) pandas.DataFrame of Fangraphs team data (retrieved through team_batting or team_pitching) x_axis: (str) Stat name to be plotted as the x_axis of the chart y_axis: (str) Stat name to be plotted as the y_axis of the chart title: (str), default = None Optional: Title of the plot

Get all pitching stats for a set time range. This can be the past week, the month of August, anything. Just supply the start and end date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Get season-level pitching data from FanGraphs. Args: start_season: First season to retrieve data from end_season: Final season to retrieve data from. If None, returns only start_season. league: Either "all", "nl", "al", or "mnl" qual: Minimum number of plate appearances to be included ind: 1 for individual season level, 0 for aggregate data Returns: Dictionary containing pitching stats from FanGraphs

Lookup playerIDs (MLB AM, bbref, retrosheet, FG) for a given player Args: last (str, required): Player's last name. first (str, optional): Player's first name. Defaults to None. fuzzy (bool, optional): In case of typos, returns players with names close to input. Defaults to False. Returns: pd.DataFrame: DataFrame of playerIDs, name, years played

Retrieve a table of player information given a list of player ids :param player_ids: list of player ids :type player_ids: list :param key_type: name of the key type being looked up (one of "mlbam", "retro", "bbref", or "fangraphs") :type key_type: str :rtype: :class:`pandas.core.frame.DataFrame`

Retrieve a team's game-level results for a given season, including win/loss/tie result, score, attendance, and winning/losing/saving pitcher. If the season is incomplete, it will provide scheduling information for future games. ARGUMENTS season: Integer. The season for which you want a team's record data. team: String. The abbreviation of the team for which you are requesting data (e.g. "PHI", "BOS", "LAD").

Returns a dataframe of all split stats for a given player. If player_info is True, this will also return a dictionary that includes player position, handedness, height, weight, position, and team

Returns a pandas DataFrame of the standings for a given MLB season, or the most recent standings if the date is not specified. ARGUMENTS season (int): the year of the season

Get season-level Batting Statistics for Specific Team (from Baseball-Reference) ARGUMENTS: team : str : The Team Abbreviation (i.e. 'NYY' for Yankees) of the Team you want data for start_season : int : first season you want data for (or the only season if you do not specify an end_season) end_season : int : final season you want data for

Get season-level Fielding Statistics for Specific Team (from Baseball-Reference) ARGUMENTS: team : str : The Team Abbreviation (i.e., 'NYY' for Yankees) of the Team you want data for start_season : int : first season you want data for (or the only season if you do not specify an end_season) end_season : int : final season you want data for

Get season-level Pitching Statistics for Specific Team (from Baseball-Reference) ARGUMENTS: team : str : The Team Abbreviation (i.e. 'NYY' for Yankees) of the Team you want data for start_season : int : first season you want data for (or the only season if you do not specify an end_season) end_season : int : final season you want data for

Retrieves the top prospects by team or leaguewide. It can return top prospect pitchers, batters, or both. ARGUMENTS team: The team name for which you wish to retrieve top prospects. If not specified, the function will return leaguewide top prospects. playerType: Either "pitchers" or "batters". If not specified, the function will return top prospects for both pitchers and batters.