Birthplaces · Oceania · 2005–2026
🇦🇺MLB Players from Australia
Every major leaguer born in Australia who took a plate appearance or threw a pitch in a published season, with what they have done since 2005 — and who is playing now.
- Players
- 26 2005–2026
- Active in 2026
- 4
- Total dbWAR
- 23.7
- Home runs
- 52
- Strikeouts
- 2,283 2,574.1 IP
- Batters / pitchers
- 10 / 16
Notable
Superlatives over the seasons published here, not over whole careers.
Liam Hendriks2011–2025Most home runs22
Curtis Mead817 PAMost strikeouts739Liam Hendriks663.2 IPBest season2.9 WARLiam Hendriks2019First to the majors1999
Trent DurringtonHardest-hit ball112.4 mphCurtis Mead2024Youngest in 202624
Travis BazzanaMost seasons here14Liam Hendriks2011–2025The All-Australian Team
The best player born in Australia at each position since 2005, by the dbWAR he produced there. Positions nobody has filled are left open.
And on the mound
How this is picked. Each player is filed at the one position he appeared at most often — so a shortstop who spent two years at third is a shortstop, and cannot hold both slots — and the spot goes to whoever produced the most dbWAR there. The figure on a card is therefore the value at that position rather than the career total shown elsewhere on this page: they differ for anyone who moved. Starting and relieving are counted separately for the same reason, on the share of each season's appearances that were starts. A slot needs 100 plate appearances or 20 innings to be claimed at all, which keeps a September call-up from becoming a first baseman. 3 position players are eligible here, with 1 starters and 10 relievers.
In the majors now
4 Australian-born players were on a major-league roster in 2026. Every column sorts.
| Travis Bazzana | CLE | 2B | 24 | 124 | 517 | 15 | 57 | 19 | .245 | .335 | .408 | 107 | 2.7 |
| Curtis Mead | WSH | 3B | 26 | 88 | 329 | 17 | 48 | 6 | .253 | .353 | .498 | 132 | 2.4 |
| Josh Hendrickson | HOU | 29 | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3.38 | 0.85 | 0.75 | 0.1 |
| Brandan Bidois | PIT | 25 | 15 | 0 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 6.32 | 7.19 | 1.98 | -0.4 |
Clubs in 2026CLE 1HOU 1WSH 1PIT 1
The full 2026 leaderboards filter by birthplace too: batting · pitching — pick several countries at once there.
Since 2005
Career totals over the published seasons, ranked by dbWAR.
| Travis Bazzana | 2026 | 1 | 517 | 110 | 15 | 57 | 19 | .245 | 2.7 |
| Curtis Mead | 2023–2026 | 4 | 817 | 178 | 22 | 79 | 13 | .244 | 2.1 |
| Glenn Williams | 2005 | 1 | 43 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .425 | 0.3 |
| Trent Oeltjen | 2009–2011 | 3 | 194 | 36 | 5 | 11 | 9 | .220 | 0.2 |
| James Beresford | 2016 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .227 | -0.1 |
| Trent Durrington | 2005 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .214 | -0.1 |
| Brad Harman | 2008 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .100 | -0.1 |
| Luke Hughes | 2010–2012 | 3 | 348 | 69 | 8 | 33 | 4 | .218 | -0.2 |
| Aaron Whitefield | 2020–2022 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| Justin Huber | 2005–2009 | 5 | 175 | 36 | 2 | 15 | 1 | .224 | -0.7 |
| Liam Hendriks | 2011–2025 | 14 | 663.2 | 33 | 116 | 739 | 3.88 | 11.2 |
| Grant Balfour | 2007–2015 | 9 | 471.2 | 25 | 84 | 497 | 3.32 | 6.0 |
| Peter Moylan | 2006–2018 | 12 | 418.2 | 24 | 4 | 324 | 3.10 | 3.7 |
| Josh Spence | 2011–2012 | 2 | 40.0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 3.15 | 0.2 |
| Rich Thompson | 2007–2012 | 6 | 104.2 | 3 | 0 | 105 | 4.21 | 0.2 |
| Ryan Rowland-Smith | 2007–2014 | 5 | 370.0 | 12 | 2 | 229 | 4.57 | 0.2 |
| Josh Hendrickson | 2026 | 1 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3.38 | 0.1 |
| Lewis Thorpe | 2019–2021 | 3 | 59.1 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 5.76 | 0.1 |
| Brad Thomas | 2010–2011 | 2 | 80.1 | 6 | 0 | 37 | 4.59 | 0.1 |
| Jack O'Loughlin | 2024 | 1 | 9.2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4.66 | -0.0 |
| Chris Oxspring | 2005 | 1 | 12.0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3.75 | -0.1 |
| Shane Lindsay | 2011 | 1 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12.00 | -0.1 |
| Travis Blackley | 2007–2013 | 3 | 166.2 | 8 | 0 | 116 | 4.48 | -0.1 |
| Brandan Bidois | 2026 | 1 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 6.32 | -0.4 |
| Warwick Saupold | 2016–2018 | 3 | 106.2 | 8 | 1 | 70 | 4.98 | -0.5 |
| Alex Wells | 2021–2022 | 2 | 46.1 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 6.60 | -0.6 |
By season
How many were in the majors each year, and what they produced.
| Season | Players | Batters | Pitchers | PA | HR | IP | SO | dbWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 846 | 32 | 18.1 | 23 | 4.8 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 264 | 3 | 13.2 | 12 | -0.3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 132 | 1 | 9.2 | 6 | -0.2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 92 | 1 | 5.0 | 3 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 61.1 | 91 | 0.9 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 129.0 | 145 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 41.2 | 47 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 112.2 | 155 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 86.2 | 61 | -0.6 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 186.0 | 168 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 119.0 | 115 | 1.9 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 79.1 | 79 | 1.7 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 102.1 | 89 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 175.2 | 152 | -1.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 29 | 0 | 286.0 | 208 | 1.1 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 408 | 9 | 194.1 | 185 | 1.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 41 | 1 | 317.1 | 202 | -0.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 78 | 3 | 256.0 | 203 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 79 | 2 | 184.1 | 165 | 2.1 |
| 2007 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 168.2 | 149 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 15.0 | 14 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 148 | 0 | 12.0 | 11 | -0.3 |
Where in Australia
Birth cities with more than one major leaguer, most first.
About this page
26 major-league players born in Australia appear in this archive, between 2005 and 2026. 4 of them were on a major-league roster in 2026. Together they are worth 23.7 dbWAR, on 52 home runs and 2,283 strikeouts thrown.
The most valuable of them by our own measure is Liam Hendriks, worth 11.2 dbWAR across 2011–2025. His best year was 2019, at 2.9 WAR. Trent Durrington has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 1999.
Curtis Mead has hit the most home runs, 22. Liam Hendriks has thrown the most strikeouts, 739. The hardest ball anyone from here has struck came off Curtis Mead's bat at 112.4 mph, in 2024. These are totals over the seasons published here rather than whole careers: a player who debuted before 2005 arrives mid-career, and his numbers start where the archive does.
Melbourne has produced 5 of them, more than anywhere else in Australia. In 2026 they are spread across 4 clubs, one each — among them Cleveland Guardians.
Country here means country of birth, taken from each player's biographical record. It is not nationality and not who a player has represented internationally — the three disagree often enough to matter, and birthplace is the one this data actually holds. Every rate statistic and every dbWAR figure is computed from play-by-play using constants measured from each season's own data, so the numbers are era-correct without being copied from anywhere. See the derivation →
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