The Most Famous
BASEBALL PLAYERS from Netherlands
This page contains a list of the greatest Dutch Baseball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 91 Baseball Players, NaN of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 0th most number of Baseball Players.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dutch Baseball Players of all time. This list of famous Dutch Baseball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Didi Gregorius (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 36.56, Didi Gregorius is the most famous Dutch Baseball Player. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Mariekson Julius "Didi" Gregorius (born February 18, 1990) is a Curaçaoan professional baseball shortstop for the Algodoneros de Unión Laguna of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, and Philadelphia Phillies. Gregorius was born in Amsterdam to Johannes Gregorius Sr., a Dutch professional baseball player. His family moved to Curaçao when Gregorius was five years old, at which point he began playing tee-ball and youth baseball. MLB scouts began taking notice of Gregorius when he was a teenager, and he signed with the Reds in 2007 after they offered to bring him to the United States. Gregorius' rise through the Reds' farm system was hindered in 2011 when a chronic kidney malfunction caused him to miss two months of the season, but he made his major league debut in September 2012. After the 2012 season, with Gregorius' path to the majors blocked by starting shortstop Zack Cozart, Cincinnati traded him to Arizona, where he split his playing time with Chris Owings and Cliff Pennington. The Yankees, needing a shortstop to replace the recently retired Derek Jeter, acquired Gregorius in December 2014, and he played the next five seasons for the team. His batting improved with the Yankees: in addition to breaking Jeter's single-season home run record in 2017, he put up 20 or more home runs in three consecutive seasons. Despite missing several weeks of the 2019 season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, Gregorius continued to hit for power upon his return, with a postseason grand slam securing the Yankees' place in the 2019 American League Championship Series. The Yankees chose not to extend his contract at the end of the season, and the Phillies signed Gregorius as a free agent that winter. Gregorius' first two seasons with the Phillies were hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic, associated visa issues, and a battle with pseudogout, and he batted a career low .209 in 2021. The Phillies released him in August 2022, and he has since played in the Mexican League. Gregorius has represented the Dutch national baseball team at several international tournaments, including the Baseball World Cup and World Baseball Classic. At the 2011 Baseball World Cup, he and his teammates received honorary knighthood after defeating Cuba in the gold medal match. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2025 European Championship.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Dutch baseball players born between 1990 and 1990. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Dutch baseball players include Didi Gregorius. As of April 2024, 1 new Dutch baseball players have been added to Pantheon including Didi Gregorius.
