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🇯🇲MLB Players from Jamaica

Every major leaguer born in Jamaica who took a plate appearance or threw a pitch in a published season, with what they have done since 2008 — and who is playing now.

Players: 1
Active in 2026: 0
Total dbWAR: 13.4
Home runs: 0
Strikeouts: 1,004
Batters / pitchers: 0 / 1

Notable

Every line here is the same man — he is the only major leaguer born in Jamaica in this archive.

Most dbWAR13.4

Justin Masterson2008–2015 Most strikeouts1,004

Justin Masterson1,201.0 IP Best season4.1 WAR

Justin Masterson2011 First to the majors2008

Justin Masterson Hardest-hit ball94.2 mph

Justin Masterson2015 Most seasons here8

Justin Masterson2008–2015

In the majors now

Nobody born in Jamaica appeared in 2026.

Since 2008

Career totals over the published seasons, ranked by dbWAR.

Pitchers, by dbWAR since the first published season.

Justin Masterson	2008–2015	8	1,201.0	64	0	1,004	4.31	13.4

By season

How many were in the majors each year, and what they produced.

Season	Players	Batters	Pitchers	PA	IP	SO	dbWAR
2015	1	1	1	3	59.1	49	0.0
2014	1	1	1	13	128.2	116	0.2
2013	1	1	1	2	193.0	195	3.3
2012	1	1	1	2	206.1	159	1.9
2011	1	1	1	6	216.0	158	4.1
2010	1	1	1	5	180.0	140	2.2
2009	1	0	1	0	129.1	119	1.5
2008	1	1	1	5	88.1	68	0.3

About this page

One major-league player published here was born in Jamaica, and he appeared between 2008 and 2015. None appeared in 2026. Together they are worth 13.4 dbWAR, on 0 home runs and 1,004 strikeouts thrown.

The most valuable of them by our own measure is Justin Masterson, worth 13.4 dbWAR across 2008–2015. His best year was 2011, at 4.1 WAR. Justin Masterson has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 2008.

Justin Masterson has thrown the most strikeouts, 1,004. The hardest ball anyone from here has struck came off Justin Masterson's bat at 94.2 mph, in 2015. These are totals over the seasons published here rather than whole careers: a player who debuted before 2008 arrives mid-career, and his numbers start where the archive does.

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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