Baseball-Reference.com is an amazing site filled with just about every baseball statistic under the sun. But along with showing us stats, they are collecting stats on users, particularly which players you are searching for on their site.
Sean Forman, the founder of Baseball-Reference, tweeted out an interesting map showing each state and which player users from that state search for the most. Some aren’t too surprising - Californians search for Angels phenom Shohei Ohtani, New Yorkers search for Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom. Even locally, the searches make sense - Kansans searched for Royals second baseman Whit Merrifield - with his popularity extending even to Colorado - while Missourians most searched for former Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols.