The 2023 season of the Major Leagues has already started and there will be about 945 players divided into 30 teams who will seek to win the World Series, of these 900 players; 269 are born outside the United States, which represents 28.5% of the entire universe of baseball players in the Majors.
In total, there are 19 countries that have at least one player in one of the 30 MLB franchises. Of these 269 players, the Dominican Republic leads the list with 104 players born on the island and who are currently part of the active roster or injured list. .
In second place and with some distance is Venezuela, which registers 62 players in the Major Leagues, while Cuba closes the podium with 21; Puerto Rico has 19 and Mexico 15, the highest number for the Aztec nation since 2005.
The list by countries is completed by: Canada (10); Japan (8); Colombia (7, tied with 2020 for its second-highest total behind 10 in 2022); Curacao (4); Panama (4); South Korea (4); the Bahamas (2); Nicaraguan (2); Aruba (1); Australia (1); Brazil (1); Germany (1); Honduras (1); and Taiwan (1).
These data have been recorded by MLB since 1995 and since then the Dominican Republic has led the list of foreign players in the league, which demonstrates its role as a power in baseball and which it reinforced in 2013 by winning the World Classic title.
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