Where 2025-26 baseball players came from
California sends more players to college baseball than any other state: 8.6% of 2025-26 players, clear of New York at 7.3%.
Out of 23,567 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
596 schools' 2025-26 baseball rosters, 23,567 players. We don't say what share of all programs that is — no authoritative count of programs exists.
- California2,028 players · 8.6%
- New York1,726 players · 7.3%
- Pennsylvania1,616 players · 6.9%
- Texas1,530 players · 6.5%
- Illinois1,233 players · 5.2%
- New Jersey1,203 players · 5.1%
- Florida1,200 players · 5.1%
- Virginia931 players · 4.0%
- Ohio910 players · 3.9%
- Georgia845 players · 3.6%
- North Carolina711 players · 3.0%
- Minnesota692 players · 2.9%
- Massachusetts656 players · 2.8%
- Wisconsin559 players · 2.4%
- Missouri492 players · 2.1%
- Home state unknown407 players · 1.7%
These players' roster pages didn't list a readable home town. We count them rather than hide them.
38 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 23,567 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
Fewer than 1.7% of the baseball players we read came from outside the U.S. (401 players), so there's no second chart — the numbers per country are too small to be worth ranking.
How to read this
Each bar is the number of players on a 2025-26 college baseball roster whose listed home town is in that state. It is not a count of recruits, offers, or scholarships, and it says nothing about your own odds — it's simply where the players currently on rosters grew up.
We only call a state first when its lead survives the count. Here California is ahead of New York by 302 players, more than the ~123 that ordinary variation could explain.
The unknown bar matters. 407 baseball players (1.7%) are on rosters that didn't list a readable home town. We show them because a chart with no leftovers is usually a chart someone tidied up.
Source: official athletics roster pages, 2025-26 season, read August 4, 2026.