Countries with Major League Baseball Players

Wow...as of today, Dominican Republic has been guessed the least. That's really surprising to me. After the USA, that was the first country that i put.

Agreed. There are Dominicans all over the league. I'd be surprised if there was a team without at least one Dominican on its current roster.

I just checked the roster for my favorite team (the Mets) out of curiosity. Out of 25 players, 7 are Dominican. Wow. That's more than I thought.

Dominican Republic was my 1st guess after the USA as well. In defense of those who missed it though, I can't bring to mind any particularly famous current player that I know is from there, though. The main reason I guessed it was because of Sammy Sosa, but he's been retired for awhile now.

Jose Bautista, Adrian Beltre, Robinson Cano, Nelson Cruz--though all are past their prime, that's two pretty good sluggers, one hall of famer and one borderline hall of famer. Don't forget Rafael Devers, starting 3B for the world champion Red Sox, or Luis Severino, who pitches for the Yankees. I could go on.

Though, to be fair, I did get those from looking at a list of current Dominican MLBers, not off the top of my head.

Jose Ramirez? actually he sucks right now but still

Albert Pujols is Dominican, as is Juan Soto, who isn't very famous yet, but the whole baseball world will know him in the next few years. He might be the best hitter in baseball after Mike Trout. Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. are both ascendant stars who are Dominican. Vlad Guerrero, Jr. is another, although he didn't fully grow up in the Dominican. There are a bunch more very good Dominican players scattered about the league. Robinson Cano has passed his prime, but he's still a great hitter. And don't forget the greatest of them all, Bartolo Colon.

Only 7 with more than 60 players.

and bear in mind all of these countries have their own leagues, too. These are just the players who came to play MLB.

Worldwide baseball is a very small sport. I don't even know the rules, nor have I ever seen a match or even seen a baseball..

Cricket is equally confounding to many of us Americans.

^ yeah. silly statement. Just because you don't know how the game is played doesn't mean anything. Similar to an American claiming that cricket is a very small sport because they've never seen a wicket.

I'm surprised that Panama is not here.

Why did you put in the emoji for the Algerian flag?

"The Panama Canal Zone was an unincorporated territory of the United States from 1903 to 1979" Hmmmm...

Venezuela surprised me, even more when I looked and saw there are currently 65 Venezuelan players in the league.

I guessed this one only beacause of Miguel Cabrera.

Much harder since the rosters are so much smaller, only about 12. The equivalent would be 25-30 players from a country. Would make an interesting quiz!

You wouldn't get 60 players, but it would be interesting to see which countries have the most. Spain has a handful. Germany too. Lithuania is really good at basketball for some reason, as is a lot of eastern Europe. Croatia and Serbia come to mind.

Cool idea for a quiz. Pretty easy though.

I can't believe I almost forgot Japan. USA, Dominican Republic, and Cuba were obvious, after that I just started guessing other countries in the Americas. Japan should have been obvious but I nearly forgot it for some reason (I actually guess Ireland before Japan, if you'll believe it).

LOL! Valenzuela was actually from Mexico.

Being a fan of the Big Red Machine of the 1970s made this a bit easier. Obviously you have the 3 major North American countries. Add the recent influx from Japan. That leaves 3 Latin countries. Tony Perez was from Cuba. Cesar Geronimo was from the Dominican Republic. And Dave Concepcion was from Venezuela. Thanks guys!

How did you make the names red?

A little code around the desired words et voilà.

I used the "font" HTML tag. Open with "font color=red" and close with "/font". Anything in between will be red. The website will recognize each as an HTML tag by enclosing them in "<" and ">" symbols.

So (sans periods) <...font color=red...>Dave Concepcion<.../font...>. will show up as Dave Concepcion.

If you want to make text bold, use <...b...>text<.../b...> = text

And if you want to start a new line, simply insert 1 <...br...>. If you want a new paragraph, insert <...br...><...br...>.

I'm actually surprised the number of players from Japan isn't higher. For awhile in the early 2000's, it was fashionable for just about every team to go and import someone from Japan, thanks to the success of Ichiro Suzuki.

"DR" should be accepted for Dominican Republic. It's a very common abbreviation used by Dominicans and non-Dominicans in the US.

Yeah, too many other things start with "Dr," so that's probably not going to happen. Same reason why quizzes on this site don't accept "LA" for Los Angeles.

Yeah it could be DR Congo specifically here

It works now.

Two words: PUERTO RICO

Three words: Okay, so I can't count.

I was surprised South Korea didn't make the cut...just checked and there have only been 23 Korean MLB players.

Finally a quiz where "DR" gets accepted for the Dominican Republic.

All featured quizzes should accept that type-in now, per a change earlier this year.

..and this year, a second inductee to the Hall of Fame in Larry Walker.

Thanks. Now I have to wipe the sarcasm off of my screen.