Look up Baseball Player IDs by Player Name

This function allows you to query the Chadwick Bureau's public register of baseball players and the various IDs associated with them in different systems of record.

Usage

playerid_lookup(last_name = NULL, first_name = NULL)

Arguments

last_name

A text string used to return results for players with that string in their last name.

first_name

A text string used to return results for players with that string in their first name.

Value

A data frame of baseball players and the various IDs associated with them in different systems of record.

col_name	types
first_name	character
last_name	character
given_name	character
name_suffix	character
nick_name	character
birth_year	integer
mlb_played_first	integer
mlbam_id	integer
retrosheet_id	character
bbref_id	character
fangraphs_id	integer

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(playerid_lookup("Garcia", "Karim"))
#> ── Player ID Lookup from the Chadwick Bureau's public register of baseba
#> ℹ Data updated: 2022-12-29 00:07:11 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1 × 11
#>   first_name last_name given_n…¹ name_…² nick_…³ birth…⁴ mlb_p…⁵ mlbam…⁶
#>   <chr>      <chr>     <chr>     <chr>   <chr>     <int>   <int>   <int>
#> 1 Karim      Garcia    Gustavo … ""      ""         1975    1995  114588
#> # … with 3 more variables: retrosheet_id <chr>, bbref_id <chr>,
#> #   fangraphs_id <int>, and abbreviated variable names ¹​given_name,
#> #   ²​name_suffix, ³​nick_name, ⁴​birth_year, ⁵​mlb_played_first, ⁶​mlbam_id
# }