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Originally Posted by Simp
Well, there are 17,022 player IDs in the Lahman database. If your 16,631 represents only non-pitchers that would leave only 391 pitchers in the history of MLB. Now these tables for batters and pitchers include anyone who has gotten a plate appearance or threw a pitch, so they don't discern whether they were considered a pitcher or a hitter. Still, your list would almost have to include pitchers, unless I'm running the query wrong or your source is more complete.
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You have lost me here. If there have been 16000 plus players in major league history, most of them will have been position players and the rest pitchers. Do you have some source which claims there have been 16,000 plus position players?