It's the last Friday before the regular season starts (Yay!), so let's get in a positive frame of mind. Who are the greatest Indians born in each nation (or, in a couple of cases, territory)? In this case "greatest" will be determined by Baseball-reference's career WARP while playing for the Indians.
- USA - Napolean 'Larry' Lajoie, 74.7
- Venezuela - Omar Enrique Vizquel, 28.6
- Dominican Republic - Manuel Aristedes Ramirez, 28.2
- Mexico - Roberto Francisco Avila, 28.0
- Cuba - Luis Tiant, 23.0
- Canada - Jeff Heath, 22.9
- Puerto Rico - Roberto Alomar, 20.6
- South Korea - Shin-Soo Choo, 18.2
- Netherlands - Rik Aalbert Blyleven, 17.7
- Nicaragua - Dennis Martinez, 11.4
- Virgin Islands - Jerry Browne, 4.9
- Panama - Einar Diaz, 4.5
- Switzerland - Otto Hess, 3.8
- Scotland - Tom Waddell, 2.3
- Italy - Mario Pieretti, 0.6
- Germany - Heinz Becker, 0.4
- Japan - Kazuhito Tadano, 0.3
- Spain - Bryan Oelkers, 0.2
- Czechoslovakia - Elmer Valo, 0.2
- Australia - Cam Cairncross, 0.1
- Bahamas - Tony Curry, -0.1
- Vietnam - Danny Graves, -0.4
- Indonesia - Tom Mastny, -0.5
- England - Ed Walker, -0.6
- Jamaica - Justin Masterson, -0.9
- Russia - Bill Cristall, -0.9
- Colombia - Jolbert Cabrera, -1.4
Two of these leaders are current members of the squad; by day two of the season, it is likely three will be, unless that #3 guy has an absolutely awful first game.
The list is sorted by decreasing WARP, so the names should get more obscure as go you lower down. There are a couple of notable exceptions which have been drilled into our heads by excessive repetition though.
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