Birthplaces · Europe · 2011–2026
🇮🇹MLB Players from Italy
Every major leaguer born in Italy who took a plate appearance or threw a pitch in a published season, with what they have done since 2011 — and who is playing now.
- Players
- 3 2011–2026
- Active in 2026
- 2
- Total dbWAR
- 4.0
- Home runs
- 6
- Strikeouts
- 296 258.0 IP
- Batters / pitchers
- 1 / 2
Notable
Superlatives over the seasons published here, not over whole careers.
The All-Italian Team
The best player born in Italy at each position since 2011, 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. 1 position player is eligible here, with 2 starters and 0 relievers.
In the majors now
2 Italian-born players were on a major-league roster in 2026. Every column sorts.
| Chase Burns | CIN | 23 | 29 | 29 | 154.1 | 15 | 0 | 185 | 2.86 | 3.25 | 1.17 | 3.5 |
| Sam Aldegheri | LAA | 25 | 9 | 6 | 33.2 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 5.08 | 5.33 | 1.43 | -0.1 |
The full 2026 leaderboards filter by birthplace too: batting · pitching — pick several countries at once there.
Since 2011
Career totals over the published seasons, ranked by dbWAR.
| Alex Liddi | 2011–2013 | 3 | 188 | 36 | 6 | 16 | 3 | .208 | 0.0 |
| Chase Burns | 2025–2026 | 2 | 197.2 | 15 | 0 | 252 | 3.23 | 4.7 |
| Sam Aldegheri | 2024–2026 | 3 | 60.1 | 4 | 0 | 44 | 5.67 | -0.7 |
By season
How many were in the majors each year, and what they produced.
Where in Italy
Birth cities with more than one major leaguer, most first.
About this page
3 major-league players born in Italy appear in this archive, between 2011 and 2026. 2 of them were on a major-league roster in 2026, up from 1 in 2011. Together they are worth 4.0 dbWAR, on 6 home runs and 296 strikeouts thrown.
The most valuable of them by our own measure is Chase Burns, worth 4.7 dbWAR across 2025–2026. His best year was 2026, at 3.5 WAR. Alex Liddi has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 2011.
Alex Liddi has hit the most home runs, 6. Chase Burns has thrown the most strikeouts, 252. These are totals over the seasons published here rather than whole careers: a player who debuted before 2011 arrives mid-career, and his numbers start where the archive does.
They come from 3 different towns and cities. In 2026 they are spread across 2 clubs, one each — among them Los Angeles Angels.
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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