Birthplaces · South America · 2012–2024
🇧🇷MLB Players from Brazil
Every major leaguer born in Brazil who took a plate appearance or threw a pitch in a published season, with what they have done since 2012 — and who is playing now.
- Players
- 5 2012–2024
- Active in 2026
- 0
- Total dbWAR
- 10.8
- Home runs
- 151
- Strikeouts
- 218 256.0 IP
- Batters / pitchers
- 2 / 3
Notable
Superlatives over the seasons published here, not over whole careers.
The All-Brazilian Team
The best player born in Brazil at each position since 2012, 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. 2 position players are eligible here, with 1 starters and 1 relievers.
In the majors now
Nobody born in Brazil appeared in 2026.
Since 2012
Career totals over the published seasons, ranked by dbWAR.
| Yan Gomes | 2012–2024 | 13 | 4,082 | 923 | 137 | 517 | 8 | .246 | 12.8 |
| Paulo Orlando | 2015–2018 | 4 | 918 | 230 | 14 | 81 | 18 | .263 | -0.2 |
| Luiz Gohara | 2017–2018 | 2 | 49.0 | 1 | 1 | 49 | 5.33 | 0.8 |
| Thyago Vieira | 2017–2024 | 5 | 66.2 | 2 | 2 | 65 | 5.80 | -0.8 |
| André Rienzo | 2013–2015 | 3 | 140.1 | 6 | 0 | 104 | 5.90 | -1.9 |
By season
How many were in the majors each year, and what they produced.
Where in Brazil
Birth cities with more than one major leaguer, most first.
About this page
5 major-league players born in Brazil appear in this archive, between 2012 and 2024. None appeared in 2026. Together they are worth 10.8 dbWAR, on 151 home runs and 218 strikeouts thrown.
The most valuable of them by our own measure is Yan Gomes, worth 12.8 dbWAR across 2012–2024. His best year was 2014, at 3.5 WAR. Yan Gomes has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 2012.
Yan Gomes has hit the most home runs, 137. André Rienzo has thrown the most strikeouts, 104. The hardest ball anyone from here has struck came off Paulo Orlando's bat at 112.8 mph, in 2015. These are totals over the seasons published here rather than whole careers: a player who debuted before 2012 arrives mid-career, and his numbers start where the archive does.
Sao Paulo has produced 3 of them, more than anywhere else in Brazil.
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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