MLB Stats Scraper — Teams, Players, Games, Standings & Leaders

Pull Major League Baseball data straight from the official MLB Stats API — all 30 teams, full rosters with player bios, schedules and final scores, live division standings, season hitting/pitching/fielding lines, game box scores, and league leaderboards. Seven modes, one actor. No API key, no login, no proxies. Rows come out flat, so the same record reads cleanly as JSON or as a CSV column set.

Why use this scraper?

• Seven datasets in one actor — teams, players, schedule, standings, player stats, game details, leaders. No juggling separate scrapers per endpoint.
• Several seasons in a single run — ask for [2024, 2025, 2026] and get all three in one dataset, tagged by season. Historical data reaches back to 1876.
• Player bios included — roster rows are hydrated with birth date, age, birthplace, height, weight, bats/throws and MLB debut, not just a name and a jersey number.
• Flat rows, not nested blobs — the API buries values four levels deep (teams.home.team.name); every row here is one level, so Excel and CSV work without post-processing.
• League leaderboards — home runs, batting average, ERA, strikeouts, saves and any other category the API exposes, ranked with player, team and value.
• Official source — data comes from MLB's own statsapi.mlb.com, updated live during the season.
• No proxies, no keys — the endpoints are public, which keeps runs fast and cheap.

Supported modes

Mode	One row per	Key fields
teams	Club	id, name, abbreviation, league, division, venue, first year of play
players	Player on a roster	name, jersey, position, status, birth date, age, birthplace, height, weight, bats/throws, debut
schedule	Game	gamePk, date, status, both teams, both scores, winner, venue, records, series info
standings	Team season record	wins, losses, pct, games back, division/league rank, streak, run differential, magic number
playerStats	Player season line	full hitting/pitching/fielding stat block (40+ metrics), team, games played
gameDetails	Team in a game	runs, hits, doubles, triples, HR, RBI, walks, strikeouts, errors, innings pitched, ERA inputs
leaders	Ranked player	category, rank, value, player, team, league

Use cases

Audience	What they use it for
Fantasy baseball tools	Nightly stat pulls for scoring, projections and waiver-wire ranking
Sports betting & modelling	Historical results, run differentials and box scores for backtesting
Sports media & newsletters	Standings tables, leaderboards and game recaps without manual entry
Data science / ML	Multi-season training sets with consistent schemas
Apps & dashboards	A dependable feed for schedule widgets, team pages and player cards

How it works

1. Pick a mode — teams, players, schedule, standings, player stats, game details or leaders.
2. Set the scope — seasons, and optionally team ids, player ids, game ids, a date or a date range.
3. The actor calls the official API — requests run in a bounded pool with retry and backoff, so a transient error never fails the run.
4. Rows are flattened — nested API objects become one-level records with domain-correct names.
5. Emit — one clean row per entity to your dataset, exportable as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input configuration

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	select	teams	Which dataset to pull (see the table above)
seasons	array	current year	One or more seasons, e.g. ["2026"] or ["2024","2025"]
teamIds	array	all 30	MLB team ids, e.g. 119 Dodgers, 147 Yankees. Run teams once to collect them
playerIds	array	rosters	Player-stats mode: specific players by person id
gamePks	array	schedule	Game-details mode: specific games by gamePk
date / fromDate / toDate	string	—	YYYY-MM-DD; a single day or a range for schedule and game details
leagueId	select	both	Standings: American, National or both
statGroup	select	hitting	Player stats and leaders: hitting, pitching or fielding
gameType	select	R	Regular season, spring training, postseason, World Series, LCS or All-Star
leaderCategories	array	homeRuns	Leaders: e.g. battingAverage, earnedRunAverage, strikeouts, saves
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on rows returned and charged

Example input

{
    "mode": "playerStats",
    "seasons": ["2026"],
    "teamIds": ["119"],
    "statGroup": "hitting",
    "maxItems": 40
}

Output samples

Standings row

{
    "recordType": "standing",
    "season": 2026,
    "teamId": 139,
    "team": "Rays",
    "league": "American League",
    "division": "American League East",
    "wins": 66,
    "losses": 46,
    "winningPercentage": ".589",
    "gamesBack": "-",
    "divisionRank": 1,
    "streak": "W1",
    "runDifferential": 88,
    "magicNumber": "E"
}

Game row

{
    "recordType": "game",
    "gamePk": 823431,
    "officialDate": "2026-08-03",
    "status": "Final",
    "awayTeam": "Washington Nationals",
    "awayScore": 3,
    "homeTeam": "Philadelphia Phillies",
    "homeScore": 6,
    "winningTeam": "Philadelphia Phillies",
    "venueName": "Citizens Bank Park",
    "url": "https://www.mlb.com/gameday/823431"
}

Key output fields

Field	Meaning
recordType	Which mode produced the row — handy when you merge several runs
teamId / playerId / gamePk	Official MLB ids, stable across seasons and joins
season	The season the row belongs to, so multi-season runs stay separable
url	Deep link to the team, player or gameday page on mlb.com
winningTeam	Computed from the final score, null while a game is unfinished
statGroup	Hitting, pitching or fielding — set on stat and leader rows

FAQ

What does a run cost? $0.004 per row plus a $0.005 run start. All 30 teams is about $0.13; a full league leaderboard costs a few cents.

Do I need an API key or proxies? No. The MLB Stats API is public, so runs need no key, no login and no proxy spend.

How far back does the data go? To 1876 for most modes. Coverage of individual stat categories thins out for the earliest seasons — that's the source data, not the actor.

How do I find a team or player id? Run teams once for every club id, or players for a roster with person ids. Then pass them into the other modes.

Can I pull a whole season of games? Yes — choose schedule, set the season, and leave the date fields empty. Raise maxItems since a full season is about 2,430 games.

Is this affiliated with MLB? No. It reads a public endpoint that MLB operates. See the disclaimer below.

Support

• Found a bug or need another field? Open a ticket on the Issues tab of this actor.
• Author's website: muhamed-didovic.github.io
• Email: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• More scrapers: apify.com/memo23

Additional Services

• Request customization or a whole dataset: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• For API access to this scraper (no Apify fee, usage fee only), get in touch at the same address.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor reads publicly available data from MLB's own statsapi.mlb.com endpoints. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Major League Baseball or any MLB club. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. MLB data is provided for informational purposes; check MLB's terms before redistributing it commercially, and use the extracted data in compliance with applicable law.

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