Birthplaces · Europe · 2007–2022
🇳🇱MLB Players from the Netherlands
Every major leaguer born in the Netherlands who took a plate appearance or threw a pitch in a published season, with what they have done since 2007 — and who is playing now.
- Players
- 3 2007–2022
- Active in 2026
- 0
- Total dbWAR
- 17.0
- Home runs
- 136
- Strikeouts
- 179 183.2 IP
- Batters / pitchers
- 2 / 1
Notable
Superlatives over the seasons published here, not over whole careers.
In the majors now
Nobody born in the Netherlands appeared in 2026.
Since 2007
Career totals over the published seasons, ranked by dbWAR.
| Didi Gregorius | 2012–2022 | 11 | 4,259 | 999 | 134 | 530 | 37 | .257 | 18.0 |
| Greg Halman | 2010–2011 | 2 | 121 | 24 | 2 | 9 | 6 | .207 | -0.5 |
| Rick Van Den Hurk | 2007–2012 | 6 | 183.2 | 8 | 0 | 179 | 6.08 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 232 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 408 | 13 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 237 | 10 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 344 | 16 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 569 | 27 | 0.0 | 0 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 570 | 25 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 597 | 20 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 578 | 9 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 299 | 6 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 404 | 7 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.7 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 2.2 | 3 | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 91 | 2 | 9.0 | 7 | -0.8 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 17.2 | 18 | -0.2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 58.2 | 49 | -0.1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 14.0 | 20 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 81.2 | 82 | -0.2 |
Where in Netherlands
Birth cities with more than one major leaguer, most first.
About this page
3 major-league players born in the Netherlands appear in this archive, between 2007 and 2022. None appeared in 2026. Together they are worth 17.0 dbWAR, on 136 home runs and 179 strikeouts thrown.
The most valuable of them by our own measure is Didi Gregorius, worth 18.0 dbWAR across 2012–2022. His best year was 2018, at 4.2 WAR. Rick Van Den Hurk has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 2007.
Didi Gregorius has hit the most home runs, 134. Rick Van Den Hurk has thrown the most strikeouts, 179. The hardest ball anyone from here has struck came off Didi Gregorius's bat at 110.8 mph, in 2019. These are totals over the seasons published here rather than whole careers: a player who debuted before 2007 arrives mid-career, and his numbers start where the archive does.
They come from 3 different towns and cities.
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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