aid: major-league-baseball
name: Major League Baseball
description: >-
  Major League Baseball (MLB) is the professional baseball organization of the
  United States and Canada, operating the National League and American League
  with 30 teams. MLB Advanced Media (now part of MLB) provides public stats
  and game data through the MLB Stats API and the legacy MLB Data (lookup
  service) API, used by teams, broadcasters, analysts, and a wide community of
  developers building stats sites, fantasy applications, and analytical tools.
  MLB also exposes Statcast data through Baseball Savant. There is no
  general-purpose self-service developer portal with terms or signup; the APIs
  are widely consumed but are formally intended for partner use.
kind: company
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Analytics
  - Baseball
  - Entertainment
  - Media
  - Sports
  - Sports Data
  - Statistics
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/major-league-baseball/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-05'
modified: '2026-05-16'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: major-league-baseball:mlb-stats-api
    name: MLB Stats API
    description: >-
      The MLB Stats API is the modern statistics and game-data service operated
      by Major League Baseball. It powers official scoreboards, gameday feeds,
      and downstream applications with endpoints for schedule, live game state,
      box scores, play-by-play, players, teams, standings, venues, divisions,
      and statistical splits. Documentation is hosted at docs.statsapi.mlb.com
      and access is gated through MLB's identity provider for partners.
    humanURL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/
    tags:
      - Game Data
      - Live Scores
      - REST API
      - Sports Statistics
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.statsapi.mlb.com/
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://statsapi.mlb.com/
  - aid: major-league-baseball:mlb-data-lookup-service
    name: MLB Data Lookup Service API
    description: >-
      The MLB Data Lookup Service is the legacy public data service exposing
      player search and details, hitting and pitching statistics, projections,
      team lists and rosters, game type information, date ranges, transactions,
      broadcast schedules, injury reports, and statistical leaderboards. The
      base endpoint is lookup-service-prod.mlb.com, with requests formatted as
      `/json/named.[endpoint].bam`.
    humanURL: https://appac.github.io/mlb-data-api-docs/
    tags:
      - Legacy API
      - Player Data
      - Sports Statistics
      - Team Data
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://appac.github.io/mlb-data-api-docs/
      - type: APIReference
        url: http://lookup-service-prod.mlb.com/
  - aid: major-league-baseball:mlb-statcast-baseball-savant
    name: MLB Statcast (Baseball Savant)
    description: >-
      Baseball Savant is MLB's public Statcast platform, surfacing pitch- and
      tracking-level data captured by Statcast cameras and radar in every MLB
      ballpark. It exposes leaderboards, search tools, visualizations, and
      pitch-by-pitch detail for hitters, pitchers, and fielders, and is widely
      scraped or queried for analytical workflows.
    humanURL: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/
    tags:
      - Pitch Tracking
      - Sports Analytics
      - Statcast
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/
      - type: Leaderboard
        url: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_leaderboard
common:
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/major-league-baseball
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.mlb.com/
  - type: News
    url: https://www.mlb.com/news
  - type: Stats
    url: https://www.mlb.com/stats
  - type: Standings
    url: https://www.mlb.com/standings
  - type: Schedule
    url: https://www.mlb.com/schedule
  - type: Teams
    url: https://www.mlb.com/team
  - type: Players
    url: https://www.mlb.com/players
  - type: Careers
    url: https://www.mlb.com/careers
  - type: Press
    url: https://www.mlb.com/press
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com