Birthplaces · Africa · 2017–2025
🇿🇦MLB Players from South Africa
Every major leaguer born in South Africa who took a plate appearance or threw a pitch in a published season, with what they have done since 2017 — and who is playing now.
- Players
- 2 2017–2025
- Active in 2026
- 0
- Total dbWAR
- -1.1
- Home runs
- 0
- Strikeouts
- 139 142.0 IP
- Batters / pitchers
- 1 / 1
Notable
Superlatives over the seasons published here, not over whole careers.
In the majors now
Nobody born in South Africa appeared in 2026.
Since 2017
Career totals over the published seasons, ranked by dbWAR.
| Gift Ngoepe | 2017–2018 | 2 | 82 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .181 | -0.3 |
| Tayler Scott | 2019–2025 | 5 | 142.0 | 8 | 0 | 139 | 5.51 | -0.9 |
By season
How many were in the majors each year, and what they produced.
Where in South Africa
Birth cities with more than one major leaguer, most first.
About this page
2 major-league players born in South Africa appear in this archive, between 2017 and 2025. None appeared in 2026.
The best single season belongs to Tayler Scott, 0.4 WAR in 2024. Gift Ngoepe has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 2017.
Tayler Scott has thrown the most strikeouts, 139. The hardest ball anyone from here has struck came off Gift Ngoepe's bat at 110.4 mph, in 2017. These are totals over the seasons published here rather than whole careers: a player who debuted before 2017 arrives mid-career, and his numbers start where the archive does.
They come from 2 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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