# How many different nationalities on your baseball team? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458 "2007-04-02T19:27:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/1 "2007-04-02T19:27:28Z")
Truly mundane and pointless, but baseball related so I’ll put it here. It is amazing how international the game has gotten in the last 20 years. My team - **Colorado Rockies** USA Panama Canada South Korea Mexico Dominican Republic Venezuela Japan One was born in West Germany, but by his name I’d guess he’s an American. > **[MLB Major League Baseball Teams: Players, Schedules, Rosters & Stats -...](https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/)** > > Sports News, Scores, Fantasy Games Click on your team, then on “roster” on the top toolbar. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/2 "2007-04-02T19:56:47Z")
NY Mets: US Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Cuba Venezuela They have on South Korean on the 40-man roster, but he was the last one cut. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/3 "2007-04-02T21:02:13Z")
**Los Angeles Dodgers** USA Japan Dominican Republic Panama Taiwan (on the disabled list) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/4 "2007-04-02T22:20:52Z")
New York Yankees USA Japan - Matsui and Igawa Panama - Rivera Dominican Republic - Cabrera, Vizcaino, Cano; Veras and Sanchez (both on DL) Puerto Rico - Nieves and Posada Venezuela - Abreu, Cairo; Gonzalez (40-man roster) Cuba - Miranda (40-man roster) China - Wang (DL) My NL team, the Braves, is even more international USA Mexico - Vilarreal Dominican Republic - Gonzalez, Soriano and Aybar Cuba - Pena Canada - Orr and Thornton Curacao - A. Jones Panama - Acosta Venezuela - Renteria; Ascanio and Blanco (40-man roster) Australia - Moylan and Stockman (40-man roster) ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/5 "2007-04-03T00:27:09Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] New York Yankees USA Japan - Matsui and Igawa Panama - Rivera Dominican Republic - Cabrera, Vizcaino, Cano; Veras and Sanchez (both on DL) Puerto Rico - Nieves and Posada Venezuela - Abreu, Cairo; Gonzalez (40-man roster) Cuba - Miranda (40-man roster) China - Wang (DL) My NL team, the Braves, is even more international USA Mexico - Vilarreal Dominican Republic - Gonzalez, Soriano and Aybar Cuba - Pena Canada - Orr and Thornton Curacao - A. Jones Panama - Acosta Venezuela - Renteria; Ascanio and Blanco (40-man roster) Australia - Moylan and Stockman (40-man roster) [/QUOTE] Interesting how some teams are built vs. others. The Braves don’t have a single Asian (unless you count Australia, where Atlanta was early to scout) while every other team mentioned has at least one, and many have several. Is Wang (China) from the mainland or Taiwan? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/6 "2007-04-03T01:38:27Z")
Cleveland Indians: USA Venezuela Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Indonesia (!!! - Tom Mastny - Raised in Indiana) We seem to have a lot more American boys than we used to. We had Manny, the Alomars, Felix Fermin, Carlos Baerga…we had a lot of Latinos. I recall we also picked up a player from Japan last year but he’s not on the active roster. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/7 "2007-04-03T10:01:05Z")
San Diego Padres. Considering just how multicultural San Diego is, it’s rather shocking that not a single Padre was born outside of the USA. The closest culturally are probably Jose Cruz of Arroyo, Puerto Rico, and Adrian Gonzalez of San Diego who (I believe) played for Mexico in the WBC and has lived in Mexico. Nine Californians, FWIW, including four from San Diego County (brothers Marcus and Brian Giles as well as the aforementioned Gonzalez and pitcher Heath Bell). > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > We seem to have a lot more American boys than we used to. We had Manny, the Alomars, Felix Fermin, Carlos Baerga…we had a lot of Latinos. And those guys weren’t American? All three major-league Alomars and Carlos Baerga were born in Puerto Rico, off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/8 "2007-04-03T12:38:47Z")
I’ll pick the closest team that I follow, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays: United States Japan South Korea Dominican Republic Venezuela Multiple Dominicans and Koreans (and Americans). One guy listed as West Germany, also, but probably just a military kid. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/9 "2007-04-03T13:13:11Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] NY Mets: [/QUOTE] Last yet it was practically **M** y **E** ntire **T** eam’s **S** panish ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-nationalities-on-your-baseball-team/398458/10 "2007-04-04T07:53:48Z")
Oakland A’s: Puerto Rico - Kiko Calero Canada - Rich Harden Venezuela - Marco Scutaro Mexico - Esteban Loaiza United States - Everyone else