In an effort to figure out which player was #420 (Rynie Wolters was #69), I sifted through the debut pages until I reached 1879. There, I was dismayed to find out that the 26 guys who all debuted on Opening Day, May 1, are all listed as tied for #395. The guy who debuted the next day is #421.
So, there is no official #420. Except, one of these guys has to be it. Who could it be? Jack Glasscock? Thorny Hawkes? Mike Burke? clicking on "May 1" does nothing (that is to say, it takes you to a Mariners game). Is there any way to find game start times for May 1, 1879? Or is this an Unsolved Mystery? (please read this entire post in Robert Stack's voice)
OK so let's say I want to know how many Cuban players have played for the Blue Jays. I would fire up Stathead batter season finder and do a search right? Well, mostly yes, except there is a chance that there might be a Cuban pitcher who had never appeared in an NL-rules game for the Blue Jays, and he wouldn't show up in this search. Is there a way to do this search without doing separate batter and pitcher versions of the search, pasting the results into Excel and manually de-duping? It would be great if all pitchers showed up in the batter finder no matter what, to avoid this issue, and/or if there could be some sort of position-agnostic version of this search.
Similarly, is there anyplace to do a custom search for season or career WAR that combines pitcher and batter WAR? All I'm really seeing is what's in the "leaders" section which is fairly limited.
Seemingly randomly on baseballreference, when I go to a page, the logo in the top left of the link is different. I have no clue what causes it. As you can see, there are 2 pages for the same player (Joe Vitiello), but both pages have a different logo in the top left. Just curious if there is a reason for this
https://preview.redd.it/s1vm3rganny61.png?width=816&format=png&auto=webp&s=f15967399dcd002bb154dc301967592ccbdc4b84When working with big lists you can only view 100 at a time. Is there anyway to just export everything in the group you filtered on? I’m using the draft finder and going back to 2000. I’m going to have to look at about 50 pages and copy/paste each one if I can’t export all of the data.
If I am trying to make a list of all-time top 1st basemen, I'll probably go on PI and do a "50% of games played at 1st base" search, right? Well, problem is, a lot of guys played multiple positions, but no one of them as much as 50%, so they are left off of ALL position lists.
I think it would be a good idea to categorize all players by their primary position, even if they played there less than 50% of games. Then be able to search by this, rather than the current percent/total games played, if desired.
Joe Mauer doesn't even show up as a catcher since he played 49.7% of his games there. A-Rod isnt a 3B OR a shortstop, he played around 45% of his games at both. Stan Musial and Pete Rose were both multiposition players who won't show up anywhere either. And probably several others.
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