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April 08, 2002
MLB Active Player Search: : The official Major League Baseball site has a cool search engine for all of the active players for this season. I especially like the "diamond" graphic where you can select the team and see who they have available at each position. Enjoy!
There are some nice features, but I would hardly describe it as awesome. Their subscription services don't work a lot of the time. Their customer service doesn't answer e-mails. Their statistics are sometimes bizarre - they had hitter hit-by-pitches but not walks in their spring training stats, and at least last year they had separate ERAs for pitchers against left-handed batters and right-handed batters. which is impossible. Also, much of the site is just plain unusable with a 56K modem, and the site is too often overwhelmed, as it was opening day.
posted by spira at 12:13 AM on April 09, 2002
MLB.com is awesome except for their crappy news articles. It certainly ought to be since it's one of the major components of the Office of the Commisioner's $180 million dollar operating budget. Good link.