The Most Famous
BASEBALL PLAYERS from Canada
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadian Baseball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 91 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 (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 30.26, 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-American former professional baseball first baseman who spent his entire 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Cincinnati Reds from 2007 to 2023. He was the second Canadian player, following Larry Walker, to have 2,000 hits, 300 home runs, and 1,000 runs batted in (RBI) in MLB. 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) Most Valuable Player Award and Hank Aaron Award. Renowned for his plate discipline and ability to get on-base, Votto was first in career walks (1,365), third in on-base percentage (.409), and fourth in on-base plus slugging (.920) among all active players at the time of his retirement during the 2024 season. He is one of two Reds with at least 300 home runs, 1,000 RBI, and 2,000 hits in franchise history, the other being Johnny Bench.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Canadian baseball players born between 1983 and 1983. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Canadian baseball players include Joey Votto.
