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2015–2026 · birthplaces

MLB Players by Country of Birth

The 4,269 players in this archive were born in 32 countries and territories. 28% of them were born outside the United States — more from the Dominican Republic than from anywhere else abroad, at 462. Each birthplace has its own page: who is playing now, who has been the best, and the whole record since 2015.

Birthplaces
32
countries and territories
Players
4,269
2015–2026
Active in 2026
1,459
Born abroad
28%
1,175 players
Largest
US
3,094 players

Every birthplace

Most players first. “Active” counts anyone who appeared in 2026; dbWAR is the total for everyone born there since 2015.

32 countries and territories. Birthplace comes from each player's biographical record — it is where he was born, not what he has represented.
#CountryRegionPlayersActive 2026HRdbWARBest since 2015
1🇺🇸United StatesNorth America3,0941,06642,3857874.5Mike Trout 63.5
2🇩🇴Dominican RepublicCaribbean4621377,6371218.6José Ramírez 54.2
3🇻🇪VenezuelaSouth America282935,938829.9Jose Altuve 52.8
4🇨🇺CubaCaribbean82302,640325.9Yordan Alvarez 31.3
5🇵🇷Puerto Rico · territoryCaribbean69271,842228.8Francisco Lindor 54.8
6🇲🇽MexicoNorth America5321413122.7Isaac Paredes 14.9
7🇨🇦CanadaNorth America4824959174.7Joey Votto 32.6
8🇯🇵JapanAsia3614559169.2Shohei Ohtani 57.3
9🇨🇴ColombiaSouth America27824856.8Jose Quintana 23.3
10🇵🇦PanamaCentral America25824429.9Iván Herrera 7.3
11🇰🇷South KoreaAsia18732455.6Hyun Jin Ryu 13.7
12🇹🇼TaiwanAsia133314.3Wei-Yin Chen 3.6
13🇦🇺AustraliaOceania1233715.4Liam Hendriks 11.7
14🇨🇼Curaçao · territoryCaribbean7354681.6Ozzie Albies 26.5
15🇩🇪GermanyEurope7226925.2Brendan Donovan 12.4
16🇳🇮NicaraguaCentral America62276.2Jonathan Loáisiga 4.1
17🇧🇷BrazilSouth America501156.6Yan Gomes 7.0
18🇦🇼Aruba · territoryCaribbean3320247.4Xander Bogaerts 48.3
19🇧🇸BahamasCaribbean3212715.9Jazz Chisholm Jr. 16.5
20🇬🇧United KingdomEurope3100.9Michael Petersen 0.9
21🇮🇹ItalyEurope2203.9Chase Burns 4.6
22🇿🇦South AfricaAfrica200-1.1Gift Ngoepe -0.2
23🇨🇳ChinaAsia100-0.4Austin Brice -0.4
24🇭🇳HondurasCentral America11504.2Mauricio Dubón 4.2
25🇯🇲JamaicaCaribbean1000.0Justin Masterson 0.0
26🇱🇹LithuaniaEurope100-1.0Dovydas Neverauskas -1.0
27🇳🇱NetherlandsEurope1012115.4Didi Gregorius 15.4
28🇵🇪PeruSouth America11018.1Jesús Luzardo 18.1
29🇵🇹PortugalEurope1000.2Isaiah Campbell 0.2
30🇸🇦Saudi ArabiaAsia1002.3Alex Wilson 2.3
31🇸🇰SlovakiaEurope110-0.1Adam Macko -0.1
32🇻🇮U.S. Virgin Islands · territoryCaribbean100-0.4Akeel Morris -0.4

By region

Largest contingent first, and each country within it.

North America · 3,195 players from 3 countries

🇺🇸United States3,094 players · 1,066 active🇲🇽Mexico53 players · 21 active🇨🇦Canada48 players · 24 active

Caribbean · 628 players from 8 countries

🇩🇴Dominican Republic462 players · 137 active🇨🇺Cuba82 players · 30 active🇵🇷Puerto Rico69 players · 27 active🇨🇼Curaçao7 players · 3 active🇦🇼Aruba3 players · 3 active🇧🇸Bahamas3 players · 2 active🇯🇲Jamaica1 players · 0 active🇻🇮U.S. Virgin Islands1 players · 0 active

South America · 315 players from 4 countries

🇻🇪Venezuela282 players · 93 active🇨🇴Colombia27 players · 8 active🇧🇷Brazil5 players · 0 active🇵🇪Peru1 players · 1 active

Asia · 69 players from 5 countries

🇯🇵Japan36 players · 14 active🇰🇷South Korea18 players · 7 active🇹🇼Taiwan13 players · 3 active🇨🇳China1 players · 0 active🇸🇦Saudi Arabia1 players · 0 active

Central America · 32 players from 3 countries

🇵🇦Panama25 players · 8 active🇳🇮Nicaragua6 players · 2 active🇭🇳Honduras1 players · 1 active

Europe · 16 players from 7 countries

🇩🇪Germany7 players · 2 active🇬🇧United Kingdom3 players · 1 active🇮🇹Italy2 players · 2 active🇱🇹Lithuania1 players · 0 active🇳🇱Netherlands1 players · 0 active🇵🇹Portugal1 players · 0 active🇸🇰Slovakia1 players · 1 active

Oceania · 12 players from 1 country

🇦🇺Australia12 players · 3 active

Africa · 2 players from 1 country

🇿🇦South Africa2 players · 0 active

Reading these pages

Baseball has been an international game for a century, but the record of it is usually filed by club and by season rather than by where the players came from. These pages file it the other way. Each country page carries the men born there who are in the majors right now, the career leaders among everyone born there since 2015, a season-by-season count of how big the contingent has been, and the handful of records — most home runs, most strikeouts, hardest ball hit — that give a place its shape.

The grouping is country of birth and nothing else. It is taken from each player's biographical record, so it is not nationality and not who he has represented in a World Baseball Classic; a player born in Miami to Cuban parents is on the United States page whatever flag he has played under. The distinction is worth stating because the three answers genuinely differ, and birthplace is the only one this data holds.

Territories are listed separately from the sovereign states they belong to, because that is how baseball talks about them and because merging them would erase the reason anyone looks them up: Puerto Rico, Curaçao, Aruba and the U.S. Virgin Islands each send players to the majors far out of proportion to their size, and a Puerto Rican major leaguer folded into the United States total is a fact nobody can get back out of it.

Every figure is computed from play-by-play, with rate statistics and dbWAR built on constants measured from each season's own data rather than copied from a published table. Career totals cover the seasons published here, 2015 through 2026, not whole careers — a player who debuted earlier arrives mid-career. The full derivation is published.

Other ways in

2026 batting leaders — the rankings filter by birthplace, several countries at a time — every player · every club · the 2026 standings.