Please please answer my question below which is abt verb tenses?

Baseball, long touted as the all-American pastime, has steadily become the all-Dominican pastime. While in 2005, about 100 major league players (had arrived/arrived) from the Dominican Republic, in 2008, their number (had risen/rose) to 850. Many Dominican boys (had wanted/wanted) to be the next Sammy Sosa before they realized they would spend up to 8 hours a day fine-tuning their technique.