Talk:List of Major League Baseball consecutive games played leaders

Only 15?
Is there a reason the page only lists the top 15? Can't we do like top 50 or so? Are there any objections to expanding the list? KPalicz (talk) 19:39, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Sachio Kinugasa
I would like to see this article mention, or link to, Sachio Kinugasa's former world record of 2216 consecutive games played while with the Hiroshima Carp in Japan. Cal Ripken, Jr., broke that record on June 14, 1996.

Mark W. Miller (talk) 05:40, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Start and End dates
Is there any way we can get the start and end dates for everyone on this list?72.15.25.104 (talk) 21:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

If you 're determined,

(1) Log into the retrosheet.org site.

(2) From the Games/People/Parks tab, select Players.

(3) Locate the player in question.

(4) Look at his year-to-year record, and you should be able to make a guess as to where his streak began and ended. He should have a run of 162 games played (or 154 before 1961) for several years, with lower numbers before and after.

(4A) Do be aware that 161 might represent a full season with a rain-out not made up; you may see a 163 if there was a tie game replayed; and that some seasons were shortened by war or labor issues. I.e., you have to use some judgment.

(5) Select the Daily option to review the individual games the likely year the streak began or ended.

Now ... that's the easy part. As team games in which this guy didn't play are not represented by blank lines in this record, you'd have to match up the dates with the team's schedule to locate the missing ones.

I figured that I could fill in most of the table in a couple of hours, but for Step 5.

Note: some old seasons are still not represented by full daily records, so there may still be some gaps.

It should also be possible to figure out consecutive innings played by all of the players with 900+ consecutive games and thus validate Ripken's conjectured record.

Good luck! WHPratt (talk) 02:08, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Actually, it may not be all that difficult. You can probably step through the team's box scores game-by-game and note where the player in question's name appears or fails to appear. WHPratt (talk) 21:41, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

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400+ games?
The current consecutive games played streak leader, at the end of July 2021, is Whit Merrifield. As he is still under the radar with just over 400 games, not many are discussing him. I imagine interest in this article/page will increase if/when he reaches the 500-game threshold. Having said that, I am wondering if it is useful to extend the list to include players with over 400 consecutive games played. The data below is not a complete list, but it would be a start toward that end. 468	Hunter Pence 446	Luis Gonzalez 445	B.J. Surhoff 434	Juan Pierre 421	Alcides Escobar 415	Shawn Green 409	Whit Merrifield What do you think? Uthminsta (talk) 04:53, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Team
Does a streak have to be for a single team, or could a player continue the streak after being traded? Also, shouldn't we add the player's teams to the table? --Jameboy (talk) 14:50, 19 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Everett Scott's then-record streak began with the Red Sox and ended with the Yankees; so, yes, it could span two or more teams and still be deemed "consecutive." It might be interesting if a player got traded in mid-season from a team that had played 60 games to a team that had by that time completed 62 games of its schedule. He could then finish the season with 160 games played, despite not actually missing any. In the reverse situation, a player could gain a couple of extra games that season. WHPratt (talk) 19:55, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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