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Sunday, February 08, 2009
MLB/MiLB: 8833
That’s how many players played in MLB or MiLB in 2008: 8833. And here is the entire list (csv). All of them are listed with their MLBAM Id. (It does not include JT Snow.)
1289 of the 1290 MLB players also have their Retro, BDB, STATS, and BIS ids listed. (The one guy I didn’t do never took the field at all and never started a game as DH. I’ll leave it to one of you guys to figure out who that player was.)
All the players are assigned a primary position class: C, IF, OF, 1B, based on where they played the most in MLB (minimum, uh… I forget what I did… I think I used 100 innings in MLB). Anyone who played less than that in MLB, I then merged his MLB totals to his MiLB totals to get his fielding position class.