Birthplaces · Central America · 2015–2026
🇵🇦MLB Players from Panama
Every major leaguer born in Panama 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
- 25 2015–2026
- Active in 2026
- 8
- Total dbWAR
- 29.9
- Home runs
- 244
- Strikeouts
- 1,437 1,723.1 IP
- Batters / pitchers
- 12 / 13
Notable
Superlatives over the seasons published here, not over whole careers.
Iván Herrera2022–2026Most home runs44
Edmundo Sosa1,606 PAMost strikeouts351
Jaime Barria462.2 IPBest season2.8 WAR
Johan Camargo2018First to the majors1998
Bruce ChenHardest-hit ball114.6 mphEdmundo Sosa2021Youngest in 202622
Leo BernalMost seasons here8Edmundo Sosa2018–2026The All-Panamanian Team
The best player born in Panama at each position since 2015, by the dbWAR he produced there. Positions nobody has filled are left open.
Miguel Amaya3.6dbWARJohan Camargo4.1dbWARSSEdmundo Sosa3.4dbWARLF
Allen Córdoba-0.5dbWARIván Herrera4.9dbWARAnd 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. 11 position players are eligible here, with 3 starters and 7 relievers.
In the majors now
8 Panamanian-born players were on a major-league roster in 2026. Every column sorts.
| Iván Herrera | STL | DH | 26 | 154 | 688 | 16 | 66 | 8 | .247 | .359 | .378 | 116 | 2.6 |
| Miguel Amaya | CHC | C | 27 | 73 | 239 | 6 | 26 | 0 | .239 | .345 | .378 | 107 | 1.1 |
| José Caballero | NYY | SS | 30 | 126 | 438 | 14 | 51 | 32 | .238 | .295 | .375 | 82 | 1.0 |
| Leo Bernal | STL | C | 22 | 17 | 75 | 3 | 15 | 0 | .310 | .347 | .479 | 135 | 0.6 |
| Edmundo Sosa | PHI | LF | 30 | 81 | 242 | 8 | 43 | 4 | .247 | .285 | .417 | 86 | 0.5 |
| Leo Jiménez | MIA | 3B | 25 | 64 | 194 | 2 | 14 | 1 | .199 | .306 | .259 | 68 | -0.3 |
| Daniel Espino | CLE | 25 | 12 | 2 | 13.1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4.72 | 4.30 | 1.43 | 0.1 |
| Justin Lawrence | PIT | 32 | 37 | 0 | 34.1 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 7.34 | 6.97 | 1.95 | -0.9 |
Clubs in 2026STL 2CHC 1CLE 1PIT 1PHI 1MIA 1
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.
| Iván Herrera | 2022–2026 | 5 | 1,465 | 335 | 40 | 164 | 21 | .268 | 7.3 |
| Edmundo Sosa | 2018–2026 | 8 | 1,606 | 376 | 44 | 191 | 27 | .256 | 6.1 |
| José Caballero | 2023–2026 | 4 | 1,571 | 319 | 32 | 157 | 151 | .231 | 5.1 |
| Johan Camargo | 2017–2023 | 7 | 1,359 | 316 | 37 | 161 | 2 | .254 | 3.8 |
| Miguel Amaya | 2023–2026 | 4 | 861 | 179 | 23 | 116 | 0 | .237 | 3.6 |
| Carlos Ruiz | 2015–2017 | 3 | 698 | 140 | 8 | 48 | 5 | .230 | 1.1 |
| Leo Bernal | 2026 | 1 | 75 | 22 | 3 | 15 | 0 | .310 | 0.6 |
| Rubén Tejada | 2015–2019 | 4 | 618 | 131 | 3 | 38 | 2 | .239 | 0.4 |
| Leo Jiménez | 2024–2026 | 3 | 436 | 76 | 7 | 34 | 1 | .203 | 0.1 |
| Christian Bethancourt | 2015–2024 | 6 | 1,183 | 256 | 35 | 126 | 11 | .227 | -0.2 |
| Jonathan Araúz | 2020–2023 | 4 | 262 | 43 | 8 | 31 | 0 | .184 | -0.4 |
| Allen Córdoba | 2017 | 1 | 227 | 42 | 4 | 15 | 2 | .208 | -0.5 |
| Randall Delgado | 2015–2018 | 4 | 221.0 | 16 | 2 | 206 | 3.83 | 2.0 |
| Justin Lawrence | 2021–2026 | 6 | 246.0 | 13 | 15 | 254 | 5.34 | 0.9 |
| Enrique Burgos | 2015–2016 | 2 | 68.1 | 3 | 3 | 82 | 5.27 | 0.7 |
| Ariel Jurado | 2018–2020 | 3 | 181.0 | 12 | 0 | 105 | 5.97 | 0.7 |
| Severino González | 2015–2016 | 2 | 66.0 | 4 | 0 | 62 | 6.68 | 0.7 |
| Daniel Espino | 2026 | 1 | 13.1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4.72 | 0.1 |
| Jaime Barria | 2018–2023 | 6 | 462.2 | 22 | 0 | 351 | 4.38 | 0.1 |
| Humberto Mejía | 2020–2021 | 2 | 32.1 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 6.68 | -0.2 |
| Alberto Baldonado | 2021 | 1 | 10.2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8.44 | -0.2 |
| Bruce Chen | 2015 | 1 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12.79 | -0.3 |
| Dario Agrazal | 2019 | 1 | 73.1 | 4 | 0 | 41 | 4.91 | -0.3 |
| Paolo Espino | 2017–2024 | 6 | 265.2 | 5 | 1 | 217 | 5.12 | -0.4 |
| Javy Guerra | 2018–2023 | 6 | 63.0 | 3 | 0 | 45 | 6.43 | -0.9 |
By season
How many were in the majors each year, and what they produced.
| Season | Players | Batters | Pitchers | PA | HR | IP | SO | dbWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1,876 | 49 | 47.2 | 65 | 4.8 |
| 2025 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1,218 | 40 | 18.2 | 23 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1,736 | 38 | 68.1 | 48 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1,198 | 33 | 181.0 | 157 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 752 | 17 | 257.1 | 205 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 463 | 9 | 220.2 | 179 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 207 | 5 | 65.2 | 59 | 0.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 294 | 7 | 287.0 | 203 | -1.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 552 | 19 | 195.1 | 125 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 773 | 11 | 91.1 | 83 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 518 | 9 | 154.1 | 146 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 901 | 7 | 136.0 | 144 | 1.7 |
Where in Panama
Birth cities with more than one major leaguer, most first.
About this page
25 major-league players born in Panama appear in this archive, between 2015 and 2026. 8 of them were on a major-league roster in 2026, up from 7 in 2015. Together they are worth 29.9 dbWAR, on 244 home runs and 1,437 strikeouts thrown.
The most valuable of them by our own measure is Iván Herrera, worth 7.3 dbWAR across 2022–2026. The best single season belongs to Johan Camargo, 2.8 WAR in 2018. Bruce Chen has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 1998.
Edmundo Sosa has hit the most home runs, 44. Jaime Barria has thrown the most strikeouts, 351. The hardest ball anyone from here has struck came off Edmundo Sosa's bat at 114.6 mph, in 2021. 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.
Panama City has produced 12 of them, more than anywhere else in Panama. In 2026 they are spread across 6 clubs, 2 of them with St. Louis Cardinals.
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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