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From MLB.com, April 6, 2010, by Robert Gonzalez, ‘Rosters showcase foreign-born players’.
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The list was released by Major League Baseball on April 6, 2010, to coincide with Opening Day rosters of the 30 MLB teams. Here is an article from The Biz of Baseball.com site… ‘Complete List of 231 Foreign-Born Players in MLB for 2010′”. The article includes a pdf of the 231-player list.
Two notes….The list includes Puerto Rican-born players, even though Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the USA. Evidently, according to MLB, for the purposes of this list, United States-born means born in the 50 states and the District of Colombia.
[Note: see Comment #4, for more on this.]
The list comprises the active rosters of the 30 MLB ball clubs, plus players who are on the disabled list and who are suspended.
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Here are all the foreign-born players that made the 2009 MLB All-Star game last July…
American League: 8 36 players on 2009 All-Star roster were foreign-born.
AL starters-
Jason Bay, OF (Canada)- Boston Red Sox [now on New York Mets].
Ichiro Suzuki, OF (Japan)- Seattle Mariners.
AL pitchers-
Felix Hernandez, SP (Venezuela)- Seattle Mariners.
Mariano Rivera, RP (Panama)- New York Yankees.
AL reserves-
Victor Martinez, C (Venezuela)- Cleveland Indians [now on Boston Red Sox].
Justin Morneau, OF (Canada)- Minnesota Twins.
Carlos Pena, 1B (Dominican Republic)- Tampa Bay Rays.
Nelson Cruz, OF (Dominican republic)- Texas Rangers.
National League: 8 of 36 players on the 2009 All-Star roster were foreign-born.
NL starters-
Yadier Molina, C (Puerto Rico)- St. Louis Cardinals.
Albert Pujols, 1B (Dominican Republic)- St. Louis Cardinals.
Hanley Ramirez, SS (Dominican Republic)-Florida Marlins.
Carlos Beltran, OF (Puerto Rico)- New York Mets.
NL pitchers-
Francisco Cordero, RP (Dominican Republic)- Cincinnati reds.
Frankie Rodriguez, RP (Venezuela)- New York Mets.
Johan Santana, SP (Venezuela)- New York Mets.
NL reserves-
Miguel Tejada, 3B/SS (Dominican Republic)- Houston Astros.
Foreign-born 2009 MLB All-Stars by country- Dominican Republic, 6 players; Venezuela, 4 players; Canada, 2 players; Puerto Rico, 2 players; Japan, 1 player; Panama, 1 player.
Thanks to ESPN, MLB Players.
Thanks to Maury Brown at BizOfBaseball.com… http://www.bizofbaseball.com.
This is pretty interesting – I actually thought the numbers would be higher.
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Response to Comment: It feels that way, doesn’t it. I think it’s because most of bench-warmer type players in MLB are all US-born. In other words, it is very likely that a higher percentage of foreign-born players (who are postion players) are starters.
Comment by Eric — April 10, 2010 @ 10:14 pm
There aren´t any European players? I thought there was one Dutch playing.
Response to Commment: Well, Curacao is an overseas possession of the Netherlands, so technically there are 2 Dutch players in MLB. There might be a Holland-born player in the high minor leagues.
Response, one day later: You were right, Rick VandenHurk {Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/Rick_VandenHurk } is a pitcher in the Florida Marlins’ organization, who has MLB experience. He probably is on the New Orleans Zephyrs right now. Yep, he is. Thanks for the on-the-ball Comment, MarJoaquin.
Comment by MarJoaquin — April 11, 2010 @ 1:01 am
Great Post, very informative!
Comment by Cork GAA — April 11, 2010 @ 10:05 am
“The list includes Puerto Rican-born players because although Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the USA, it is not one of the 50 states (and that’s how MLB framed the list).”
Heh, I don’t think they would list players born in Washington, D.C. as ‘foreign-born’ players.
A term they might want to use is ‘unincorporated territory’. Since Puerto Rico is unincorporated, it is considered not fully a part of the US and could conceivably go its own way one day.
Response to Comment:
Thanks for making that point. Actually when I re-read the original article on MLB.com, I see they don’t even bother to explain that Puerto Rico is part of the list for foreign-born players, or why.
Here is the original article. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100406&content_id=9103912&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
It’s worth noting that some of the people who made comments to the MLB.com article mention and/or complain about the Puerto Rico designation as “foreign”.
So I have amended my post to read “Evidently, according to Major League Baseball, for the purposes of this list, United States-born means born in the 50 states and the District of Colombia.” Thanks for the comment.
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response to Comment: The Dominican Republic is like a baseball-player factory.
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