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Of Interest to members of this
committee, this item reported to SABR-L by member Andrew Sharp.
In the first comprehensive study of
baseball and immigration, released to coincide with the 2006 World Series, the
National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), an Arlington, Va.-based public
policy group, examined both historical records and 2006 rosters and found the
impact of foreign-born players on major league baseball is at an all-time high.
A complete copy of the report ""Coming to
Among the findings in the study:
… In the American League in
2006, 7 of the top 9 batting averages belonged to foreign-born players, while
the leading home run hitter (DavidnOrtiz) and the two leaders in runs batted in
(Ortiz and Justin Morneau) were foreign-born. In the National League, two of
the top three hitters for average (Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera) and home
runs (Pujols and Alfonso Soriano) were foreign-born. Dominican-born pitcher
Johan Santana led the major leagues in strikeouts, earned run average and wins
(tied at 19 with Chien-Ming Wang).
… Foreign-born players
accounted for 31 percent of the players selected for the 2006 All Star Game and
44 percent of the game's starters, higher than their proportion of 23 percent
on major league active rosters.
… More than 23 percent of
major league baseball players on active rosters in 2006 were foreign-born, the
highest in baseball history. The percentage of foreign-born players in the
major leagues has more than doubled from 10 percent since 1990. As of Aug. 31,
175 of the 750 players on major league 25-man rosters were foreign born. This
total does not include 40 foreign-born players on the disabled list on Aug. 31.
Players born in
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