The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award has never been presented to a Spanish member of the Tampa Bay Rays.
 Among other Caribbean countries and territories, a combined 97 MLB players were born in Venezuela, Cuba, and Puerto Rico
 Baseball's original steroid testing policy, in effect from 2002 to 2005, provided for penalties ranging from a ten-game suspension for a first positive test to a one-year suspension for a fourth positive test

