Baseball Players, and athletes of all sports really, take pride in where they’re from. Whether it’s the state, city or area code – you always notice players wanting to rep their home area.
Fans tend to do the same thing. It’s always more fun to pull for a player when they’re from your home state (or even your hometown), especially when that player also happens to be playing on your favorite team.
With all that in mind, we went through MLB.com and pulled the home states (or countries) of every player on the 40-man rosters for each team.
We found 12 players from the state of Minnesota on major league rosters which may not sound like a lot, but it places the northern state in a tie for 20th overall with Colorado and Indiana.
As far as individual cities, Detroit (4) is the most well-represented city and the only city that has more than one player.
Here are the 13 guys representing the state of Michigan on MLB Rosters at the start of the 2023 season including what town he’s from and what team he plays for.
| Name | City | Team |
|---|---|---|
| Anthony Bass | Dearborn | Blue Jays |
| Anthony Misiewicz | Detroit | Diamondbacks |
| Brandon Hughes | Sterling Heights | Cubs |
| Eric Haase | Detroit | Tigers |
| Hunter Brown | Detroit | Astros |
| Jake Cronenworth | St Clair | Padres |
| John Schreiber | Wyandotte | Red Sox |
| Jon Berti | Troy | Marlins |
| Kaleb Ort | Grand Rapids | Red Sox |
| Keegan Akin | Alma | Orioles |
| Kyle Finnegan | Detroit | Nationals |
| Tommy Edman | Pontiac | Cardinals |
| Tommy Henry | Portage | Diamondbacks |
Baseball Hometown Fun Facts
California, by far, has the most current MLB players of any state with 189.
The second most was the state of Florida with 89, followed by Texas (78), New York (42) and Georgia with 40.
The Dominican Republic has 120 players currently in major league baseball which is incredibly impressive considering the country has a total population of only 11 million people. By comparison, the state of California has a population of 39 million and the state of Florida has a population of almost 22 million.
Other States
We are slowly but surely getting all the states published from the data we collected. Here are a few of the other states we currently have available.
Current MLB Players from Maryland