Current Pro Baseball Players from Panama (MLB 2023)
Baseball Players, and athletes of all sports really, take pride in where they’re from. Whether it’s the state, city or as is common in major league baseball, their country – 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 every player’s home state (or country) on the 40-man rosters for each team.
There are 20 countries (other than the US) that are represented in the MLB.
We found 7 players from Panama on major league rosters. That places Panama 9th among those 20 countries for the most players in the majors.
Here are the 7 guys representing the country of Panama 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Christian Bethancourt | Panama City | Rays |
| Edmundo Sosa | Panama City | Phillies |
| Ivan Herrera | Panama City | Cardinals |
| Jaime Barria | Panama City | Angels |
| Javy Guerra | David | Brewers |
| Jose Caballero | Panama City | Mariners |
| Paolo Espino | Panama City | Nationals |
Hall of Fame Players from Panama
In addition to the current players from Panama, we compiled a list of all players that have gone on to make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame:
| Name | City | Induction Year |
|---|---|---|
| Mariano Rivera | Panama City | 2019 |
| Rod Carew | Gatún | 1991 |
Baseball Hometown Fun Facts
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.
The next highest country is Venezuela with 81 followed by Cuba and Puerto Rico with 23 each.
To give you some context, here are the US states with the most players in Major League Baseball:
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.
Other countries
We are slowly but surely getting all the countries published from the data we collected. Here are a few of the other countries we’ve put together so far.
Current MLB Players from Mexico
