MLB Stats
mlb_stats( stat_type = NULL, player_pool = NULL, game_type = NULL, team_id = NULL, position = NULL, stat_group = NULL, season = NULL, league_id = NULL, sport_ids = NULL, sort_stat = NULL, order = NULL, limit = 1000, offset = NULL )
stat_type: Stat type to return statistics for.
player_pool: There are 4 different types of player pools to return statistics for a particular player pool across a sport. Acceptable values include: All, Qualified, Rookies, or Qualified_rookies
game_type: Game type to return information for a particular statistic in a particular game type.
team_id: Team ID to return information and ranking for a particular statistic for a particular team.
position: Position to return statistics for a given position. Default to "Qualified" player pool Acceptable values include:
stat_group: Stat group to return information and ranking for a particular statistic in a particular group.
season: Year to return information and ranking for a particular statistic in a given year.
league_id: League ID to return statistics for a given league. Default to "Qualified" player pool.
sport_ids: The sport_id(s) to return information and ranking information for.
sort_stat: Sort return based on stat.
order: Order return based on either desc or asc.
limit: A limit to limit return to a particular number of records.
offset: An offset to returns i+1 as the first record in the set of players.
Returns a tibble with the following columns
| col_name | types |
| total_splits | integer |
| season | character |
| num_teams | integer |
| rank | integer |
| games_played | integer |
| ground_outs | integer |
| air_outs | integer |
| runs | integer |
| doubles | integer |
| triples | integer |
| home_runs | integer |
| strike_outs | integer |
| base_on_balls | integer |
| intentional_walks | integer |
| hits | integer |
| hit_by_pitch | integer |
| avg | character |
| at_bats | integer |
| obp | character |
| slg | character |
| ops | character |
| caught_stealing | integer |
| stolen_bases | integer |
| stolen_base_percentage | character |
| ground_into_double_play | integer |
| number_of_pitches | integer |
| plate_appearances | integer |
| total_bases | integer |
| rbi | integer |
| left_on_base | integer |
| sac_bunts | integer |
| sac_flies | integer |
| babip | character |
| ground_outs_to_airouts | character |
| catchers_interference | integer |
| at_bats_per_home_run | character |
| team_id | integer |
| team_name | character |
| team_link | character |
| player_id | integer |
| player_full_name | character |
| player_link | character |
| player_first_name | character |
| player_last_name | character |
| league_id | integer |
| league_name | character |
| league_link | character |
| sport_id | integer |
| sport_link | character |
| sport_abbreviation | character |
| position_code | character |
| position_name | character |
| position_type | character |
| position_abbreviation | character |
| splits_tied_with_offset | list |
| splits_tied_with_limit | list |
| player_pool | character |
| type_display_name | character |
| group_display_name | character |
try(mlb_stats(stat_type = 'season', stat_group = 'hitting', season = 2021))
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