The 2025 MLB season is fast approaching, and we’re bringing significant new updates to enhance your platforms and elevate fan engagement to new heights. Packed with fresh endpoints, expanded data points, and game-changing features, these upgrades provide you with even more tools to tell the story behind every pitch, swing, and game. And the exciting news? We’re officially upgrading to Version 8 of our MLB API—this evolution sets the stage for a better, faster, and more scalable platform experience. Let’s dive into what’s new.

The Jump to MLB API Version 8

With the upgrade to Version 8 of our MLB API, you’ll gain access to a range of enhancements that improve both performance and functionality, including better data accuracy, expanded integration flexibility, and streamlined access to new features.

Make the most of the leap by unlocking the new features and endpoints below.

New Endpoints

Seasonal Awards and Honors

For fans, milestones matter. Whether it’s MVP awards, Silver Sluggers, or Manager of the Year honors, these accolades spark conversations and celebrate excellence. You can now bring these moments to life with our new Awards and Honors endpoint.

How You Can Use It:

• Spotlight Achievements: Automatically highlight team, player, and coach accolades directly on their profiles, keeping fans engaged with career-spanning success stories.
• Build Dedicated Pages: Create a specialized “Awards & Honors” section in your app, offering fans a central hub to explore past and present milestones.

Free Agents

Offseason drama keeps fans watching closely, especially during free agency, when rosters transform, and teams race to build the next championship contender. Our Free Agents endpoint makes it easier to deliver that excitement to your users.

How You Can Use It:

• Showcase Who’s on the Market: Offer real-time encyclopedias of unsigned stars, giving users the most up-to-date information on roster rumors and signings straight from your platform.

New Data Points

Expanded Statcast Event Tracking

We’ve supercharged the Statcast Event Tracking endpoint with new advanced metrics like Sword, Swing Length, Catch Probability, and more.

How You Can Use It:

• Highlight the Unlikely: Elevate improbable plays, like hits with slim success probabilities, to hook fans with jaw-dropping moments.
• Home Run Insights: Deliver ballpark-specific home run tracking showcasing how far those blasts could’ve traveled elsewhere in the league.

Hitter Outcomes

Break down the game like never before with detailed insights into every pitch, foul, swing, and miss under Hitter Outcomes tracking.

How You Can Use It:

• Track Rule Violations: Design leaderboards for hitters and pitchers who log the most violations under the automated strike zone rules.
• Trendspotting: Map rule compliance and trends across a season to deepen fan understanding of this evolving area.

Player Profiles

We’re introducing new descriptor fields for Base Salary, Rookie Year, and Hall of Fame Year to further enrich player profiles.

How You Can Use It:

• Deepen Player Pages: Expand player bios with career-defining stats, such as salary highlights, debut details, and Cooperstown honors.

Postseason Team Seeding

The chase for October glory deserves richer storytelling. Our new Postseason Team Seeding data adds more clarity for fans.

How You Can Use It:

• Dynamic Brackets: Create interactive playoff brackets showcasing team seeds, making it easy for fans to follow their team’s championship journey.

Expanded Play-by-Play Scoring

With Version 8, we’ve integrated game score data into the play-by-play event stream for deeper storytelling.

How You Can Use It:

• Tell the Full Story: Infuse historical context into every play, helping fans track game momentum shifts as they happen.

Game Context Metrics

We’ve added new game context data like reviews, mound visits, and delay durations, giving your platform the edge in delivering fresh strategic insights.

How You Can Use It:

• Strategic Highlights: Showcase pivotal moments like late-game reviews or how teams manage critical mound visits.
• Track Game Flow: Help fans understand how delays influence pacing and game rhythm.

Team Wins/Losses by Game

Easily track each team’s performance throughout the season with game-specific win/loss data added to Version 8.

How You Can Use It:

• Season Trends: Provide fans with clear insights into team performance and streak trends across the season.

Broadcast Enhancements

The once-beta Multiple Broadcast Feature introduced in Version 7.1 has now been officially integrated into Version 8.

How You Can Use It:

• Guide Viewers: Present users with all viewing options—including TV, radio, and streaming—helping them tune into games how and where they want.

 

This season let’s go beyond the box score and make 2025 unforgettable—together.

*** Disclaimer: These are intended updates and are subject to change at any time. *****