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Introducing New Pages for Non-MLB Statistics

Posted by Mike Lynch on September 4, 2015

As you explore Baseball-Reference, you may notice a bit of a re-imagining of how we are now presenting non-MLB statistics on the site. Where we once had fragmented sections for player stats in various non-Major leagues (minors, Japan, Cuba, etc), we have now combined everything into a single page showing the player's professional history. This new page presents all of a player's career statistics on one page and makes it easier than ever to track a player's career trajectory and journey in one place. On player pages where is used to say "minors" it now lists a variety of levels at which the player played (like in the below image from Minnie Minoso's page). Clicking that link will lead you to a listing of that player's career at every level of play.

Minoso Register2

 

Through these pages, you can now find statistics for the following levels of play:

  • MLB since 1871
  • Complete affiliated Minor Leagues back to 1877
  • Negro Leagues from 1902-1960
  • Japanese baseball from 1936 to present
  • KBO baseball since 1982
  • Cuban National Series from 1961-2014
  • Arizona Fall League since 1992
  • Coverage of various Winter Leagues back to 2003 (and also 2000, 1999 and 1997)
  • Various independent leagues as far back at the late 19th century

As an example of how this all works, let's take a look at the all-levels career of the well-traveled Minnie Minoso: As you can see, the stat tables look like the ones you've grown comfortable with on our site. But instead of just being for a specific level of play, you can see Minoso's stats from MLB, the minors, the Negro Leagues, foreign leagues and independent leagues. Using the "show/hide" buttons atop the stats table, you can isolate or exclude statistics from various levels of play. Additionally, levels at which Minoso played more than one season will be summed beneath the table (as well as his all-level totals). Below you will see an abbreviated version of the table layout, displaying Minoso's long career. If you're wondering what some of the columns represent, hold your mouse over the column header and a description will pop up.

Year Age AgeDif Tm Lg Lev Aff G PA
1946 20 New York Cubans NNL NgM 90
1947 21 New York Cubans NNL NgM 106
1948 22 -3.1 Dayton CENL A CLE 11
1948 22 New York Cubans NNL NgM 78
1949 23 -6.7 San Diego PCL AAA CLE 137 598
1949 23 -5.8 Cleveland AL MLB CLE 9 20
1950 24 -6.4 San Diego PCL AAA CLE 169 671
1951 25 -4.0 2 Teams AL MLB CHW-CLE 146 622
1951 25 -4.0 Cleveland AL MLB CLE 8 17
1951 25 -4.0 Chicago AL MLB CHW 138 605
1952 26 -2.7 Chicago AL MLB CHW 147 668
1953 27 -1.7 Chicago AL MLB CHW 151 655
1954 28 -0.4 Chicago AL MLB CHW 153 675
1955 29 0.5 Chicago AL MLB CHW 139 615
1956 30 1.6 Chicago AL MLB CHW 151 665
Year Age AgeDif Tm Lg Lev Aff G PA
1957 31 2.3 Chicago AL MLB CHW 153 678
1958 32 3.5 Cleveland AL MLB CLE 149 638
1959 33 4.2 Cleveland AL MLB CLE 148 650
1960 34 5.5 Chicago AL MLB CHW 154 670
1961 35 6.8 Chicago AL MLB CHW 152 635
1962 36 8.1 St. Louis NL MLB STL 39 108
1963 37 9.3 Washington AL MLB WSA 109 363
1964 38 12.4 Indianapolis PCL AAA CHW 52 201
1964 38 10.5 Chicago AL MLB CHW 30 38
1965 39 17.0 Jalisco MEX AA
1966 40 Jalisco MEX AA 107
1967 41 2 Teams 2 Lgs A-AAA 49
1967 41 Orizaba MXSE A 36
1967 41 17.0 Jalisco MEX AAA 13
1968 42 2 Teams 2 Lgs A-AAA 78
1968 42 Puerto Mexico MXSE A 56
1968 42 12.0 Jalisco MEX AAA 22
Year Age AgeDif Tm Lg Lev Aff G PA
1969 43 2 Teams 2 Lgs A-AAA 110
1969 43 Puerto Penasco MXNO A 74
1969 43 12.0 Jalisco MEX AAA 36
1970 44 12.0 Union Laguna MEX AAA
1971 45 12.0 Union Laguna MEX AAA
1972 46 12.0 Union Laguna MEX AAA
1973 47 12.0 Union Laguna MEX AAA
1976 50 22.5 Chicago AL MLB CHW 3 8
1980 54 26.0 Chicago AL MLB CHW 2 2
1993 67 41.5 St. Paul NORL Ind 1 1
2003 -- 50.3 St. Paul NORL Ind 1 1
MLB (17 seasons) MLB 1835 7710
Minors (4 seasons) Minors 369 1510
NLB (3 seasons) NLB 274
Foreign (9 seasons) Foreign 344
Other (2 seasons) Other 2 2
All Levels (32 Seasons) 2550 9496
A (3 seasons) Foreign 166
AA (2 seasons) Foreign 107
AAA (3 seasons) Minors 358 1470
AAA (7 seasons) Foreign 71
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 9/2/2015.

 

Minoso provides a good example due to the variety of levels he played at. You'll also notice that for more obscure leagues there are sometimes empty rows of data. These are instances where we know a player was on a team in a given season, but we simply don't have the statistics. As a result, incomplete totals will be underlined in the tables (or just left blank when there is no data).

While the most obvious change may be to the player pages as demonstrated above, we've also created a new Professional Baseball History landing page, which will provide navigation to a wealth of non-MLB content. On this page, you'll see the left side of the page is dedicated to minor league data, while the center column directs to Japanese leagues and the right column contains links for Negro Leagues, Cuban National Series and the Korean Baseball Organization. Underneath this section you'll also find quick links to many of the minor leagues (broken down by level), as well as various fall/winter leagues and independent leagues.

We hope you find this new layout helpful. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

7 Responses to “Introducing New Pages for Non-MLB Statistics”

  1. Jeremy Lening Says:

    This addition is a good idea. Short aside: did Minosa play professionally at age 67? That's something else.

  2. KJOK Says:

    Nice addition.

    Now if we could just get career leaderboards for various Negro Leagues, Japanese Leagues, etc....

  3. Alan Keiper Says:

    Jeremy, it was a publicity stunt to get Minoso an appearance in yet another decade. I believe Bill Veeck's son (or grandson?) was running the Saints.

  4. V L Says:

    This is awesome, but at least one has player has been missed. Both http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=miyamo000tos and http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=miyamo001and are Andy Toshio Miyamoto

  5. Mike Lynch Says:

    Thanks, VL. We'll look into merging those records

  6. Mike Lynch Says:

    Thank you, Kevin. We'll keep that in mind

  7. Melisa Guerrier Says:

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