NewsWhore
04-07-2009, 02:30 PM
Despite its poor showing in the World Baseball Classic, the Dominican Republic is the foreign country with the largest number of players in the Major League Baseball championship. Of 818 rosters in MLB at the start of the 2009 season, 229 were born abroad. The DR has 81, which is seven less than in 2008. Venezuela follows with 52, Puerto Rico has 28, Mexico has 14, and Canada and Japan have 13. Cuba has 7, Curacao and Panama 4, Australia and South Korea 3, Colombia, Nicaragua and Taiwan 2, and Holland 1. The Seattle Mariners have 15 foreign-born players on their roster. Listin Diario reports that of the 6,973 baseball players in the Minor Leagues, 3,335 are foreign-born.
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