Failing to match specific player names
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My code cycles through everyone who played last year, and pulls statcast data. For 99.9% it works fine. There were a few quirks to code around, such as accents or punctuation in people's names that were throwing it off, but those were all fixable. However when I try to lookup the playerid for Yankees pitcher Michael King via playerid_lookup, it has no idea who he is. Using the fuzzy=True parameter, it gives me Michael Tonkin, Michael Kohn, Michael Kirkman, Michael Young, and Hal King. I can look up his information in the actual statcast webpage just fine. I'm not sure yet if there are any other anomalies like this.
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