Country
Eddie Rosario
Puerto Rico (US Territory)
Gerrit Cole
UCLA
Harrison Bader
New York
"The Rookie" worked as a high school baseball coach before reaching the major leagues.
Jim Morris
Adam Wainwright was traded to St. Louis by this team
Braves
Alejandro Kirk
Mexico
Alex Bregman
LSU
Hunter Brown
Michigan
This player worked as a janitor before being called up and hitting 11 triples in the major leagues.
Evan Gattis
The Dodgers traded Yordan Alvarez to the Astros for this player
Josh Fields
Edmundo Sosa
Panama
Paul Goldschmidt
Texas State
Michael Lorenzen
California
This player worked as an Uber driver the winter before a season in which he pitched in game 2 of the ALDS
Randy Dobnak
This team traded Tyler O'Neill to St. Louis in 2017
Mariners
Alex Wilson
Saudi Arabia
Charlie Blackmon
Georgia Tech
Kendall Graveman
Alabama
Edgar Martinez worked as a ____ and a ____ as a semiprofessional baseball player before finally receiving major league attention
Furniture store supervisor and General Electric factory worker
This team traded Josh Hader to Milwaukee in 2015 after receiving Hader from Baltimore in 2013
Astros
Austin Brice
Hong Kong, China
Shane Baz
TCU
Brandon Nimmo
Wyoming
This Dodgers player was bagging frozen food at Kroger before reaching the NLCS with the team.
Andrew Toles
This team traded Kyle Hendricks to Chicago in 2012
Texas Rangers