The Most Famous
BASEBALL PLAYERS from Canada
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadian Baseball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 74 Baseball Players, 1 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 8th most number of Baseball Players behind Panama and South Korea.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Canadian Baseball Players of all time. This list of famous Canadian Baseball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Joey Votto (1983 - )
With an HPI of 28.32, Joey Votto is the most famous Canadian Baseball Player. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Joseph Daniel Votto (born September 10, 1983) is a Canadian professional baseball first baseman in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, for whom he made his MLB debut in 2007. He was the first Canadian MLB player since Larry Walker to have 2,000 hits, 300 home runs and 1,000 career runs batted in (RBI). Votto is a six-time MLB All-Star, a seven-time Tip O'Neill Award winner, and two-time Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's athlete of the year. In 2010, he won the National League (NL) MVP Award and the NL Hank Aaron Award. Renowned for his plate discipline and ability to get on-base, he was first in career on-base percentage (.427), second in OPS (.957) and walks (1,104), and fourth in batting average (.311) among all active players through the 2018 season.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as baseball players born between 1983 and 1983. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living baseball players include Joey Votto.
