⚾ Baseball Reference Stats Scraper

🚀 Export MLB all-time single-season batting and pitching leaders in seconds. No account required. Just pick a stat and run.

The Baseball Reference Stats Scraper pulls all-time single-season leaders from baseball-reference.com - the gold standard for MLB historical data. Choose from 17 key batting and pitching statistics, from home runs to ERA, and get a clean ranked dataset with player URLs, season year, age, plate appearances, and batting hand.

All data is live, scraped in real-time from Baseball Reference's ranked leader tables. Each record links directly to the player's profile page for drill-down research.

Coverage

• 17 statistics: HR, RBI, Batting Average, OPS, Slugging %, On-Base %, Hits, Runs, Stolen Bases, Walks, Strikeouts, Wins, ERA, Pitcher Strikeouts, WHIP, Saves, Innings Pitched
• MLB history: All recorded seasons from 1871 to present
• 500+ ranked records per statistic
• 11 data fields per record including player URL and age

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who Uses This	What For
Fantasy baseball players	Research historical player performance trends
Sports analysts	Build statistical models on offensive/pitching records
Journalists and bloggers	Fact-check records and all-time rankings
Baseball historians	Track how records have evolved over eras
Data scientists	ML training data for baseball performance models
Developers	Populate apps with real MLB historical stats

📋 What the Baseball Reference Stats Scraper does

• Fetches all-time single-season ranked leaders for any of 17 MLB statistics
• Returns rank, player name, player profile URL, season year, age, plate appearances, batting hand, and stat value
• Supports both batting stats (HR, RBI, AVG, OPS, H, R, SB, BB, SO) and pitching stats (W, ERA, SO, WHIP, SV, IP)
• Respects free/paid tier limits automatically
• Delivers clean, typed records with no null fields

💡 Why it matters: Baseball Reference is the definitive source for MLB history. This actor gives you programmatic access to its ranked leader tables - hundreds of records per stat - for research, analysis, or app development, without any scraping setup.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: age, bats, plateAppearances, playerName, playerUrl, rank, scrapedAt, season, statLabel, statType, value. All 11 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account
2. Open the Baseball Reference Stats Scraper actor
3. Select a statType from the dropdown (e.g. HR for home runs)
4. Set maxItems to the number of ranked records you want
5. Click Start and wait ~15 seconds
6. Download your dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Baseball Reference. It accesses only publicly available information from baseball-reference.com for personal research, analysis, and legitimate business use. Please respect Baseball Reference's terms of service and rate limits.

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