Germany
34 MLB Players
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Explore baseball talent from Germany • 1871–2022
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34
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Berlin
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Landstuhl
1
Wasseralfingen
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Wurzburg
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Freiburg
1
Waldau
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Hamburg
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Stuttgart
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Stetten
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| Player Name | Birth City | Pos | Debut | Final | G | HR | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Altherr | Landstuhl | - | 2014 | 2019 | 359 | 37 | 0.219 |
| Heinz Becker | Berlin | - | 1943 | 1947 | 152 | 2 | 0.263 |
| Fritz Buelow | Berlin | - | 1899 | 1907 | 431 | 6 | 0.192 |
| Otto Deininger | Wasseralfingen | - | 1902 | 1909 | 58 | - | 0.263 |
| Brendan Donovan ACT | Wurzburg | - | 2022 | 2026 | 531 | 43 | 0.282 |
| Barney Dreyfuss | Freiburg | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ed Eiteljorge | Berlin | - | 1890 | 1891 | 9 | - | 0.185 |
| Max Fiske | Waldau | - | 1914 | 1914 | 39 | - | 0.235 |
| Judge Fuchs | Hamburg | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fred Gaiser | Stuttgart | - | 1908 | 1908 | 1 | - | - |
| Pretzels Getzien | - | - | 1884 | 1892 | 303 | 8 | 0.198 |
| George Heubel | - | - | 1871 | 1876 | 23 | - | 0.255 |
| Max Kepler ACT | Berlin | - | 2015 | 2026 | 1,240 | 181 | 0.234 |
| Ed Kippert | Stetten | - | 1914 | 1914 | 2 | - | - |
| Ben Koehler | Schondorf | - | 1905 | 1906 | 208 | 2 | 0.233 |
| Marty Krug | Koblenz | - | 1912 | 1922 | 151 | 4 | 0.278 |
| Bill Kuehne | Leipzig | - | 1883 | 1892 | 1,087 | 25 | 0.232 |
| David Lenz | - | - | 1872 | 1872 | 4 | - | 0.083 |
| Bruce Maxwell | Wiesbaden | - | 2016 | 2018 | 127 | 5 | 0.240 |
| Bill Miller | Bad Schwalbach | - | 1902 | 1902 | 1 | - | 0.200 |
| Joe Miller | - | - | 1872 | 1875 | 29 | - | 0.139 |
| Fritz Mollwitz | Coburg | - | 1913 | 1919 | 534 | 1 | 0.241 |
| Reggie Richter | Dusseldorf | - | 1911 | 1911 | 22 | - | 0.100 |
| Skel Roach | Danzig | - | 1899 | 1899 | 1 | - | - |
| Phoenix Sanders | Augsburg | - | 2022 | 2022 | 8 | - | - |
| Dutch Schesler | Frankfurt | - | 1931 | 1931 | 17 | - | 0.111 |
| Dutch Schliebner | Berlin | - | 1923 | 1923 | 146 | 4 | 0.271 |
| Mickey Scott | Weimar | - | 1972 | 1977 | 135 | - | - |
| Gus Shallix | Paderborn | - | 1884 | 1885 | 36 | - | 0.065 |
| Marty Swandell | Baden | - | 1872 | 1873 | 16 | - | 0.213 |
| Bob Troy | Bad Wurzach | - | 1912 | 1912 | 1 | - | - |
| Tony Welzer | - | - | 1926 | 1927 | 76 | - | 0.150 |
| Henry Youngman | Horde | - | 1890 | 1890 | 13 | - | 0.128 |
| Bill Zimmerman | Kengen | - | 1915 | 1915 | 22 | - | 0.281 |
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Players born in Germany
Germany is the birthplace of 34 major league players on this page. George Heubel was the first Germany-born player to appear, in 1871. The most recent debut year on the list is 2022, for Brendan Donovan and Phoenix Sanders. The most common birthplaces are Berlin, Landstuhl, and Wasseralfingen. More Germany-born players debuted in the 1910s than in any other decade. The games leader is Max Kepler, at 1,240. The best average among players with long careers is .234, by Max Kepler. The full table can be filtered by decade and position and sorted by any column. Birthplaces are taken from the Lahman biographical record, so players are grouped by country of birth, not by nationality.
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2020s
2
2010s
3
1970s
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1940s
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1930s
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1920s
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1910s
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1900s
4
1890s
4
1880s
3
1870s
4