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 14 players from the state of Oklahoma on major league rosters. A very respectable number that places the state in a tie with Missouri for 16th overall out of all 50 states.
As far as individual cities, Tulsa is the most well-represented city with 5 of the 14 players calling Tulsa home.
Here are the 14 guys representing the state of Oklahoma 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian Houser | Tahlequah | Brewers |
| Andrew Heaney | Oklahoma City | Rangers |
| Brian Anderson | Edmond | Brewers |
| Cade Cavalli | Tulsa | Nationals |
| J.T. Realmuto | Del City | Phillies |
| Jon Gray | Shawnee | Rangers |
| Jonah Bride | Owasso | As |
| Michael Fulmer | Oklahoma City | Cubs |
| Peyton Battenfield | Tulsa | Guardians |
| Ryan Helsley | Tahlequah | Cardinals |
| Tejay Antone | Oklahoma City | Reds |
| Thomas Hatch | Tulsa | Blue Jays |
| Tyler Wells | Tulsa | Orioles |
| Zack Jackson | Tulsa | As |
Hall of Fame Players from Oklahoma
In addition to the current players from Oklahoma, we compiled a list of all players that have gone on to make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame:
| Name | City | Induction Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bobby Cox | Tulsa | 2014 |
| Johnny Bench | Oklahoma City | 1989 |
| Willie Stargell | Earlsboro | 1988 |
| Mickey Mantle | Spavinaw | 1974 |
| Lloyd Waner | Harrah | 1967 |
| Paul Waner | Harrah | 1952 |
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), Georgia (40) and New York with 38 players.
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.