2005–2026 · birthplaces
MLB Players by Country of Birth
The 6,419 players in this archive were born in 35 countries and territories. 28% of them were born outside the United States — more from the Dominican Republic than from anywhere else abroad, at 693. Each birthplace has its own page: who is playing now, who has been the best, and the whole record since 2005.
- Birthplaces
- 35 countries and territories
- Players
- 6,419 2005–2026
- Active in 2026
- 1,471
- Born abroad
- 28% 1,780 players
- Largest
- US 4,639 players
Every birthplace
Most players first. “Active” counts anyone who appeared in 2026; dbWAR is the total for everyone born there since 2005.
| # | Country | Region | Players | Active 2026 | HR | dbWAR | Best since 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸United States | North America | 4,639 | 1,074 | 77,392 | 15109.9 | Mike Trout 89.9 |
| 2 | 🇩🇴Dominican Republic | Caribbean | 693 | 139 | 13,286 | 2269.6 | Robinson Canó 63.1 |
| 3 | 🇻🇪Venezuela | South America | 404 | 93 | 9,038 | 1498.3 | Miguel Cabrera 71.8 |
| 4 | 🇵🇷Puerto Rico · territory | Caribbean | 130 | 27 | 3,315 | 468.6 | Francisco Lindor 54.8 |
| 5 | 🇨🇺Cuba | Caribbean | 107 | 31 | 3,371 | 461.7 | Yordan Alvarez 31.9 |
| 6 | 🇲🇽Mexico | North America | 82 | 21 | 508 | 197.5 | Yovani Gallardo 25.3 |
| 7 | 🇨🇦Canada | North America | 79 | 24 | 1,930 | 384.2 | Joey Votto 68.4 |
| 8 | 🇯🇵Japan | Asia | 71 | 14 | 987 | 329.1 | Shohei Ohtani 57.3 |
| 9 | 🇵🇦Panama | Central America | 37 | 8 | 558 | 92.8 | Carlos Ruiz 19.6 |
| 10 | 🇨🇴Colombia | South America | 32 | 8 | 372 | 99.2 | Jose Quintana 31.4 |
| 11 | 🇰🇷South Korea | Asia | 28 | 7 | 458 | 102.3 | Shin-Soo Choo 39.3 |
| 12 | 🇦🇺Australia | Oceania | 26 | 4 | 52 | 23.7 | Liam Hendriks 11.2 |
| 13 | 🇹🇼Taiwan | Asia | 19 | 3 | 34 | 23.3 | Chien-Ming Wang 10.4 |
| 14 | 🇨🇼Curaçao · territory | Caribbean | 14 | 3 | 824 | 117.3 | Ozzie Albies 26.2 |
| 15 | 🇩🇪Germany | Europe | 9 | 2 | 322 | 49.1 | Edwin Jackson 15.6 |
| 16 | 🇳🇮Nicaragua | Central America | 9 | 2 | 39 | 23.9 | Vicente Padilla 7.9 |
| 17 | 🇧🇷Brazil | South America | 5 | 0 | 151 | 10.8 | Yan Gomes 12.8 |
| 18 | 🇦🇼Aruba · territory | Caribbean | 4 | 3 | 216 | 51.3 | Xander Bogaerts 50.1 |
| 19 | 🇧🇸Bahamas | Caribbean | 4 | 2 | 127 | 16.2 | Jazz Chisholm Jr. 16.6 |
| 20 | 🇬🇧United Kingdom | Europe | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1.1 | Michael Petersen 0.9 |
| 21 | 🇮🇹Italy | Europe | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4.0 | Chase Burns 4.7 |
| 22 | 🇳🇱Netherlands | Europe | 3 | 0 | 136 | 17.0 | Didi Gregorius 18.0 |
| 23 | 🇻🇮U.S. Virgin Islands · territory | Caribbean | 3 | 0 | 1 | -0.8 | Callix Crabbe -0.1 |
| 24 | 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia | Asia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.9 | Alex Wilson 2.8 |
| 25 | 🇿🇦South Africa | Africa | 2 | 0 | 0 | -1.1 | Gift Ngoepe -0.2 |
| 26 | 🇨🇳China | Asia | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.4 | Austin Brice -0.4 |
| 27 | Guam | Elsewhere | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | John Hattig 0.2 |
| 28 | 🇭🇳Honduras | Central America | 1 | 1 | 51 | 4.4 | Mauricio Dubón 4.4 |
| 29 | Indonesia | Elsewhere | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | Tom Mastny 0.1 |
| 30 | 🇯🇲Jamaica | Caribbean | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13.4 | Justin Masterson 13.4 |
| 31 | 🇱🇹Lithuania | Europe | 1 | 0 | 0 | -1.0 | Dovydas Neverauskas -1.0 |
| 32 | 🇵🇪Peru | South America | 1 | 1 | 0 | 18.1 | Jesús Luzardo 18.1 |
| 33 | 🇵🇹Portugal | Europe | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | Isaiah Campbell 0.2 |
| 34 | 🇸🇰Slovakia | Europe | 1 | 1 | 0 | -0.1 | Adam Macko -0.1 |
| 35 | Vietnam | Elsewhere | 1 | 0 | 0 | -1.1 | Danny Graves -1.1 |
By region
Largest contingent first, and each country within it.
North America · 4,800 players from 3 countries
Caribbean · 956 players from 8 countries
South America · 442 players from 4 countries
Asia · 121 players from 5 countries
Central America · 47 players from 3 countries
Oceania · 26 players from 1 country
Europe · 22 players from 7 countries
Elsewhere · 3 players from 3 countries
Africa · 2 players from 1 country
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 2005, 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, 2005 through 2026, not whole careers — a player who debuted earlier arrives mid-career. The full derivation is published.
2026 batting leaders — the rankings filter by birthplace, several countries at a time — every player · every club · the 2026 standings.