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How has Major League Baseball Changed Over the Years?

How has Major League Baseball Changed Over the Years?. Analysis by Lance Wagner. What is the focus?. Mainly looking at position, throwing/batting handedness, and offensive statistics Will include other analysis as thoughts come up Also open to ideas Some Initial Analysis

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How has Major League Baseball Changed Over the Years?

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  1. How has Major League Baseball Changed Over the Years? Analysis by Lance Wagner

  2. What is the focus? • Mainly looking at position, throwing/batting handedness, and offensive statistics • Will include other analysis as thoughts come up • Also open to ideas • Some Initial Analysis • How the throwing/batting handedness changed for positions over the year • The change from first basemen primarily used for fielding to batting • The lack of primary position shortstops compared to other positions • Finding the beginning of the Steroid Era and Three True Outcome Era

  3. Overview of the Data • The History of Baseball • A complete history of Major League Baseball statistics from 1871 to 2018 • Sean Lahman • http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/ • 26 CSV files of varying size

  4. What I needed for my Analysis • Batting Statistics • 6.5 MB • 105,826 Records and 22 Fields • Player Information • 2.6 MB • 19,618 Records and 24 Fields • Field Information • 6.9MB • 140,922 Records and 18 Fields

  5. Look At Raw Data

  6. Position Summary Statistics

  7. Batting Handedness

  8. Questions?

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