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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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By Tangotiger, 12:12 PM

When I was looking for fielding data to generate my Scouting Report ballots, it took me a while to find a good source.  Some places merged guys like Abreu into one line, or ignored one of his records, or put multi-position records into 1, etc.  Everything wrong about what you’d want a database, and these sites had it.  Except SI.  They had both the data split the right way, but also in an easy to use format.  If we look at their SS data:

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