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 38 players from the state of New York on major league rosters. That’s the 5th most of any state, behind only California, Florida, Texas and Georgia.
As far as individual cities, it’s pretty evenly spread across multiple cities. New York City, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Rochester all have more than one player.
Here are the 38 guys representing the state of New York 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Ottavino | New York | Mets |
| Andrew Valazquez | Bronx | Angels |
| Anthony Volpe | New York | Yankees |
| Danny Mendick | Rochester | Mets |
| Franklin German | Queens | White Sox |
| George Kirby | Rye | Mariners |
| Greg Weissert | Bay Shore | Yankees |
| Harrison Bader | Bronxville | Yankees |
| Ian Anderson | Rexford | Braves |
| James Karinchak | Newburgh | Guardians |
| Jason Foley | Manhasset | Tigers |
| Jason Vosler | West Nyack | Reds |
| Jeimer Candelairo | New York | Nationals |
| Jesse Winker | Buffalo | Brewers |
| Jonah Heim | Buffalo | Rangers |
| Josiah Gray | New Rochelle | Nationals |
| Justin Dunn | Freeport | Reds |
| Justin Topa | Binghamton | Mariners |
| Kevin Smith | East Greenbush | As |
| Logan O’Hoppe | West Islip | Angels |
| Luis Garcia | New York | Nationals |
| Marcus Stroman | Medford | Cubs |
| Matt Festa | Brooklyn | Mariners |
| Matt Gage | Johnstown | Astros |
| Michael King | Rochester | Yankees |
| Nicholas Padilla | Bronx | White Sox |
| Patrick Corbin | Clay | Nationals |
| Peter Strzelecki | Queens | Brewers |
| Reiss Knehr | Manhasset | Padres |
| Richie Palacios | Brooklyn | Guardians |
| Sean Murphy | Peekskill | Braves |
| Stephen Ridings | Huntington | Mets |
| Steven Matz | Stony Brook | Cardinals |
| Tim Locastro | Syracuse | Mets |
| Tom Murphy | West Monroe | Mariners |
| Tommy Kahnle | Latham | Yankees |
| Triston McKenzie | Brooklyn | Guardians |
| Zach Short | Kingston | Tigers |
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) and Georgia (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 Nebraska