Veteran manager Edwin Rodríguez raises concern about the rise of some players.
With the promotion on Sunday of valued prospect Nelson Velázquez with the Chicago Cubs, there are already five Puerto Rican players who have debuted in the Majors in the first two months of the season. This has increased the number of Puerto Ricans in MLB who in the past were behind the number of Cuban’s in MLB. As we had written then that was a bit embarrassing as there is presently a US Blockade against Cuba and Puerto Rico is a colonial territory of the US.
While MLB has 28.5% Latino players in this 2022 season, Puerto Ricans still have one of the lowest number of professional baseball players in MLB, but for having a few, some of those few do shine.
The last stats indicated the following:
Rank | Country | # | % |
---|---|---|---|
#1 | United States | 1,088 | 72.3% |
#2 | Dominican Republic | 169 | 11.2% |
#3 | Venezuela | 101 | 6.7% |
#4 | Puerto Rico | 30 | 2% |
#5 | Cuba | 27 | 1.8% |
#6 | Mexico | 17 | 1.1% |
#7 | Canada | 14 | 0.9% |
#8 | Colombia | 11 | 0.7% |
#9 | Panama | 9 | 0.6% |
#10 | Japan | 8 | 0.5% |
#11 | South Korea | 7 | 0.5% |
#12 | Curaçao[a] | 5 | 0.3% |
#13 | Australia | 3 | 0.2% |