Birthplaces · Europe · 2015–2026
🇩🇪MLB Players from Germany
Every major leaguer born in Germany who took a plate appearance or threw a pitch in a published season, with what they have done since 2015 — and who is playing now.
- Players
- 7 2015–2026
- Active in 2026
- 2
- Total dbWAR
- 25.2
- Home runs
- 269
- Strikeouts
- 295 391.0 IP
- Batters / pitchers
- 5 / 2
Notable
Superlatives over the seasons published here, not over whole careers.
The All-German Team
The best player born in Germany at each position since 2015, 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. 4 position players are eligible here, with 1 starters and 0 relievers.
In the majors now
2 German-born players were on a major-league roster in 2026. Every column sorts.
| Brendan Donovan | SEA | 3B | 29 | 39 | 159 | 3 | 15 | 1 | .277 | .371 | .409 | 129 | 1.0 |
| Max Kepler | AZ | LF | 33 | 41 | 145 | 2 | 15 | 0 | .205 | .262 | .303 | 53 | -0.6 |
The full 2026 leaderboards filter by birthplace too: batting · pitching — pick several countries at once there.
Since 2015
Career totals over the published seasons, ranked by dbWAR.
| Brendan Donovan | 2022–2026 | 5 | 2,165 | 536 | 43 | 217 | 16 | .282 | 12.4 |
| Max Kepler | 2015–2026 | 12 | 4,870 | 1,010 | 181 | 575 | 38 | .234 | 12.1 |
| Aaron Altherr | 2015–2019 | 5 | 1,151 | 222 | 37 | 150 | 21 | .220 | 1.3 |
| Bruce Maxwell | 2016–2018 | 3 | 412 | 88 | 5 | 42 | 0 | .240 | 0.6 |
| Jeff Baker | 2015 | 1 | 80 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 0 | .208 | -0.0 |
| Phoenix Sanders | 2022 | 1 | 14.2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3.07 | 0.4 |
| Edwin Jackson | 2015–2019 | 5 | 375.1 | 23 | 1 | 281 | 5.37 | -1.7 |
By season
How many were in the majors each year, and what they produced.
Where in Germany
Birth cities with more than one major leaguer, most first.
About this page
7 major-league players born in Germany appear in this archive, between 2015 and 2026. 2 of them were on a major-league roster in 2026, down from 4 in 2015. Together they are worth 25.2 dbWAR, on 269 home runs and 295 strikeouts thrown.
The most valuable of them by our own measure is Brendan Donovan, worth 12.4 dbWAR across 2022–2026. His best year was 2025, at 3.3 WAR. Edwin Jackson has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 2003.
Max Kepler has hit the most home runs, 181. Edwin Jackson has thrown the most strikeouts, 281. The hardest ball anyone from here has struck came off Max Kepler's bat at 115.4 mph, in 2016. These are totals over the seasons published here rather than whole careers: a player who debuted before 2015 arrives mid-career, and his numbers start where the archive does.
They come from 7 different towns and cities. In 2026 they are spread across 2 clubs, one each — among them Arizona Diamondbacks.
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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