⚾ Baseball Savant Statcast Pitch Data Scraper with Scheduled Sync

Pitch-level Statcast data that stays current automatically. Schedule once and every run fetches only the new games. Covers velocity, spin rate, launch angle, exit velocity, and expected stats for every pitch back to 2015.
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Never re-pull months of Statcast history just to get today's games Pull pitch-level velocity, spin rate, launch angle, and exit velocity from Baseball Savant. Set a schedule once, and every run fetches only the games that happened since your last sync.

📅 Incremental sync Only new games land in your dataset. Schedule nightly and never re-pull completed history.

📊 100+ columns per pitch The full Statcast export per row, not a trimmed subset: velocity, spin rate, launch angle, exit velocity, and expected stats.

🏆 Season leaderboards xBA, xwOBA, and barrel rate per player for any season from 2015 onward, with PA or IP filters.

🔧 Auto date chunking Wide ranges split automatically to avoid Baseball Savant timeouts on large date queries.

Pull Statcast pitch data and player-season leaderboards from Baseball Savant with a true scheduled incremental feed. No login required.

🔍 What does this actor do?

Baseball Savant is MLB's official Statcast search tool, offering public access to pitch-level data for every MLB game since 2015. This actor extracts that data as structured rows you can load directly into a model or dashboard.

You can pull a fixed date range for a one-off historical export, or run in Incremental mode on a nightly schedule. Incremental runs only fetch games since the last successful sync, so your dataset grows forward without re-downloading history.

Two output modes are available: pitch-level Statcast detail with over 100 columns per pitch event, and the player-season leaderboard with aggregated expected stats for batters or pitchers. Choose one or both in the same run.

⚡ The only Statcast actor with incremental sync, and the only one that hands you every column. A nightly schedule fetches only new games, and each row carries the full 100+ column export instead of a trimmed subset.

💡 Who uses this?

• I run a fantasy baseball tool. I need fresh exit velocity, barrel rate, and expected-stats numbers every morning. Re-pulling the full season from scratch each night wastes time and compute.
• I build prop-betting models. My models retrain daily on the latest pitch-level data. I need only yesterday's games, not three months of history on every run.
• I do sabermetrics research. I want a versioned, growing Statcast dataset I can query without maintaining my own scheduling infrastructure or keeping scripts patched.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Pick your mode Fixed start/end dates for a one-off historical pull, or Incremental for a recurring schedule that only fetches new games.

STEP 2 Get model-ready rows Each row carries pitch type, velocity, spin rate, launch angle, exit velo, and expected stats. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

STEP 3 Schedule and walk away Set Incremental mode on a nightly Apify Schedule. Each run adds only the games since the last sync, nothing more.

📥 Input

All fields are optional. The actor runs with its defaults for a quick test pull.

Field	Type	Required	Description
runMode	enum	No	dateRange for a fixed historical pull, or incremental to fetch only games since the last successful run. Default: dateRange.
startDate	string (date)	No	First game date to include (YYYY-MM-DD). Only used in date range mode.
endDate	string (date)	No	Last game date to include (YYYY-MM-DD). Only used in date range mode. Incremental mode always pulls through yesterday.
lookbackDays	integer	No	How many days back the very first Incremental run looks, before any sync state exists. Default: 3.
playerType	enum	No	Pull Statcast rows from the pitcher or batter perspective. Both return the same pitch events. Default: pitcher.
team	string	No	Optional 3-letter MLB team abbreviation (e.g. NYY, LAD, BOS) to restrict results to games involving that team.
outputMode	enum	No	pitchDetails for the full pitch-level export, leaderboard for the player-season aggregate, or both. Default: pitchDetails.
leaderboardYear	integer	No	MLB season year for the leaderboard pull. Default: 2026.
leaderboardType	enum	No	Whether the leaderboard covers batters or pitchers. Default: batters.
leaderboardMinPa	integer	No	Minimum plate appearances (batter) or innings pitched (pitcher) qualifier for the leaderboard. Default: 50.
chunkDays	integer	No	Days per request when splitting wide date ranges. Keep at 2-3 for in-season wide pulls. Default: 3.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum dataset records for the run. Set to 0 for no limit. Default: 5000.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	No	Off by default. Baseball Savant's export endpoints are fully open and work faster on a direct connection. Only enable if you see blocks at very high volume.

📊 Data table

Fields that Baseball Savant leaves empty for a given pitch or season are omitted from the record. Every value in your dataset is real.

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Whether this row is a pitch event (pitch) or a player-season leaderboard row (leaderboard).
game_date	string	Game date (YYYY-MM-DD).
game_pk	number	Unique MLB game identifier.
player_name	string	Player name for the pitch event or leaderboard row.
batter	number	MLB batter player ID.
pitcher	number	MLB pitcher player ID.
pitch_type	string	Pitch classification code (e.g. FF for four-seam fastball, SL for slider).
release_speed	number	Pitch velocity at release in mph.
launch_speed	number	Batted-ball exit velocity in mph.
launch_angle	number	Batted-ball launch angle in degrees.
release_spin_rate	number	Spin rate at release in RPM.
events	string	Plate appearance outcome (e.g. single, home_run, strikeout).
description	string	Pitch outcome description.
home_team	string	Home team abbreviation.
away_team	string	Away team abbreviation.
stand	string	Batter handedness (L or R).
p_throws	string	Pitcher handedness (L or R).
inning	number	Inning number.
balls	number	Ball count at the time of the pitch.
strikes	number	Strike count at the time of the pitch.
estimated_ba_using_speedangle	number	Expected batting average based on exit velocity and launch angle.
estimated_woba_using_speedangle	number	Expected wOBA based on exit velocity and launch angle.
woba_value	number	Actual wOBA value for the plate appearance.
player_id	number	MLB player ID (leaderboard rows).
season	number	MLB season year (leaderboard rows).
xba	number	Expected batting average (leaderboard rows).
xwoba	number	Expected wOBA (leaderboard rows).
barrel_batted_rate	number	Barrel rate percentage (leaderboard rows).
sprint_speed	number	Sprint speed in ft/s (leaderboard rows).
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp when this record was extracted.

Example pitch-level record:

{
  "recordType": "pitch",
  "game_date": "2026-08-20",
  "game_pk": 745812,
  "player_name": "Shohei Ohtani",
  "batter": 660271,
  "pitcher": 595918,
  "pitch_type": "FF",
  "release_speed": 97.8,
  "launch_speed": 104.2,
  "launch_angle": 21,
  "release_spin_rate": 2312,
  "events": "single",
  "home_team": "LAD",
  "away_team": "SF",
  "inning": 5,
  "balls": 1,
  "strikes": 2,
  "estimated_woba_using_speedangle": 0.712,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T10:15:00.000Z"
}

Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the Output tab, or pull them via the Apify API into your own pipeline.

💰 Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing. You pay only for the records your run actually pushes to the dataset. An empty run costs nothing. There are no subscriptions or minimum fees.

Incremental mode keeps costs low on recurring runs by fetching only new games each time, not the full history from scratch.

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📌 Tips

• Use Incremental mode with an Apify Schedule for any recurring use case. It is cheaper and simpler than re-running a full date range every time.
• Keep chunkDays at 2-3 for in-season wide pulls to avoid Baseball Savant response timeouts on large queries.
• Set maxItems on exploratory runs to control dataset size before committing to a full-season pull.
• Leave proxy off. Baseball Savant's export endpoints are fully open, and a direct connection is faster than routing through a proxy pool.

❓ FAQ

Is scraping Baseball Savant legal?

Yes. This actor only reads Baseball Savant's own public, unauthenticated export endpoints. These are the same data surfaces that open-source community tools have relied on for years. The actor never logs in, never touches anything behind a paywall, and only accesses what MLB itself makes publicly available.

How is this different from the other Statcast scrapers on Apify Store?

The other Statcast actors handle a one-off date-range pull with a trimmed set of columns. This is the only one built around scheduled incremental sync, and it ships the full 100+ column export on every row instead of a curated subset. Each run picks up exactly where the last one left off, so a nightly schedule never re-downloads completed history.

Does this replace maintaining my own custom scraping script?

For most recurring-use cases, yes. The same underlying public Statcast data is available here, hosted on Apify's infrastructure, with native scheduling, no server to maintain, and native integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, webhooks, and the Apify API.

What date range does Statcast pitch-level data cover?

Statcast pitch-tracking data goes back to the 2015 season. Newer bat-tracking metrics like bat speed and swing length are only populated for more recent seasons, because the sensors for those metrics were added later.

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