pybaseball VS baseballr

pybaseball and MLB-StatsAPI are the go-to python wrappers for the official MLB API.

I think pybaseball includes spray angle in their statcast() data frame! And if not, there definitely is the (x,y) location of where the ball landed, so you could probably do some trig to calculate that too.

Check out the docs here: https://github.com/jldbc/pybaseball/blob/master/docs/playerid_reverse_lookup.md

I think a lot of what you're looking to do though can be accomplished a bit easier by utilizing pre-existing Python libraries like Pybaseball.

most folks without direct access to mlb's api scrape baseball savant's data api. packages like baseballr or pybaseball can help with this. remember, this is in the open on a trust model: no commercial use, and don't hammer the api.

And if you’re using Python, it’s pybaseball I believe. https://github.com/jldbc/pybaseball

A basic understanding of R should be enough if you install the baseball r package. From there you can scrape off of Baseball Reference or Fangraphs for custom date ranges to get stats on whatever time frame basis you would like. Then you can export/copy/whatever to excel if you want, or do the analysis right in R.

Source: MLB Stats API via baseballr.

I like this idea, too! I use baseballr all the time. It is a godsend.

In order to make it, I need to get every lineup from every game in the season. I am using the baseballr package to get the game_pk number. Each game has a game_pk number, and each lineup is tied to that game_pk. So I need to create a dataframe (all_games_list) for each game with its game_pk number in it, and then use the game_pk numbers to create a new dataframe (lineup_all) that contains the lineup for said game_pk.

I just remembered there is also this R package: Acquiring and Analyzing Baseball Data • baseballr.

To get all the data, I would suggest checking out baseballr if you are familiar with R. https://billpetti.github.io/baseballr/

Visualization originally posted on my blog - I built the boxplot using R and ggplot2, and was fortunate to be able to use the excellent baseballr package to query MLB game information for the runtime source data!

baseballR (baseball)

most folks without direct access to mlb's api scrape baseball savant's data api. packages like baseballr or pybaseball can help with this. remember, this is in the open on a trust model: no commercial use, and don't hammer the api.

If you're using R, this is the gold standard package to use for getting baseball data. This helps you scrape data.