mlb-mcp vs fetch

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	mlb-mcp by etweisberg	fetch by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 25	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	44	76
Official	—	✓
Categories	OtherAI / LLM Tools	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
Language	Python	TypeScript
Last commit	2 mo ago	this month

mlb-mcp · Summary

Python MCP server for MLB baseball analytics with API access to statcast, fangraphs, and baseball reference data.

fetch · Summary

An MCP server that fetches web content and converts HTML to markdown, allowing LLMs to read web pages.

mlb-mcp · Use cases

Baseball analysts can retrieve player statistics and game performance data using MCP tools
Sports journalists can generate baseball visualizations and statistics reports programmatically
Fantasy baseball enthusiasts can access up-to-date player data for roster decisions

fetch · Use cases

LLMs reading news articles and blogs
Content analysis of web pages
Retrieving information from public websites
Chunked reading of large web documents

mlb-mcp · Install

Installation

Install uv if you haven't already:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Create and activate a virtual environment:

uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Unix/macOS
# or
.venv\Scripts\activate  # On Windows

Install dependencies:

uv pip install -e .

Claude Desktop Integration

To connect this MCP server to Claude Desktop, add a configuration to your claude_desktop_config.json file:

"mcp-baseball-stats": {
  "command": "{PATH_TO_UV}",
  "args": [
    "--directory",
    "{PROJECT_DIRECTORY}",
    "run",
    "python",
    "-m",
    "mlb_stats_mcp.server"
  ],
  "env": {
    "MLB_STATS_LOG_FILE": "{LOG_FILE_PATH}",
    "MLB_STATS_LOG_LEVEL": "DEBUG"
  }
}

fetch · Install

Installation

**Using uv (recommended)** No specific installation needed. Use uvx to run the server directly:

uvx mcp-server-fetch

**Using PIP** Install via pip:

pip install mcp-server-fetch

Then run as:

python -m mcp_server_fetch

Claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-fetch"]
    }
  }
}

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