Corbin Carroll

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Corbin Carroll
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Carroll with the Diamondbacks in 2023
Arizona Diamondbacks – No. 7
Outfielder
Born: (2000-08-21) August 21, 2000 (age 23)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
MLB debut
August 29, 2022, for the Arizona Diamondbacks
Men's baseball
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COPABE U-18 Pan-American Championship
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Corbin Franklin Carroll (born August 21, 2000) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Diamondbacks selected Carroll 16th overall in the first round of the 2019 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2022. In 2023, Carroll was an MLB All-Star and was named the National League Rookie of the Year en route to winning Arizona's first National League pennant since 2001.

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Early life

Corbin Franklin Carroll was born on August 21, 2000, in Seattle, Washington, [1] to Brant and Pey-Lin Carroll. [2] He is biracial; his father is Irish-American, and his mother was born in Taiwan and moved to Louisiana with her parents at the age of four. [3] Carroll has a younger sister who went to Holy Names Academy and became a soccer player. The family grew up in an Asian-American neighborhood in Seattle. [4] Carroll participated in cross-country sports to improve his speed. [5]

Amateur career

Carroll played on the USA 18U National Team that won Gold in the 2018 COPABE Pan-American Championships. He attended Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington. [6] [7] [8] As a senior in 2019, he hit .540 with nine home runs and a 1.859 OPS. [6] He committed to play college baseball at UCLA. [9]

Professional career

Draft and minor leagues

The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Carroll with the 16th overall pick in the first round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft. [10] [11] He signed for $3.7 million and was assigned to the Arizona League Diamondbacks to make his professional debut. [12] [13] [14] After batting .291 with two home runs, 14 RBIs, and 16 stolen bases over 31 games, he was promoted to the Hillsboro Hops on August 8. [15] Over 11 games with Hillsboro, he batted .326 with six RBIs. [16] Between the two teams, he batted .299/.409/.487 in 154 at bats, with 18 stolen bases in 19 attempts. [17]

Carroll did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. [18] He returned to Hillsboro to begin the 2021 season. However, in early May, Carroll injured his shoulder while hitting a home run and later underwent season-ending shoulder surgery. [19] [20] [21] At the time, he was 10-for-23 (.435) for the season. [17]

Carroll opened the 2022 season with the Amarillo Sod Poodles. [22] In early July, he was promoted to the Reno Aces. [23] With three minor league teams in 2022 he batted .307/.425/.611 in 362 at bats with 24 home runs and 31 steals in 36 attempts. [17]

Arizona Diamondbacks (2022–present)

The Diamondbacks promoted Carroll to the major leagues on August 29, 2022. [24] He made his debut later that day, against the Philadelphia Phillies. He went 1–for-5 with a two-RBI double. [25] On September 7, Carroll hit his first career home run, a solo shot off of San Diego Padres starter Yu Darvish. [26] In 2022 with Arizona, he batted .260/.330/.500 in 104 at bats, playing primarily left field, and was the seventh-youngest ballplayer in the National League. [27] He had the fastest sprint speed of any major league player, at 30.7 feet/second. [28] [29]

On March 11, 2023, Carroll signed a contract extension worth $111 million over eight years with the Diamondbacks. [30] On June 29, 2023, it was announced Carroll would be a starting outfielder in the 2023 All-Star Game, his first career All-Star appearance. [31] [32] Carroll became the first rookie in major league history to record 25 home runs and 50 stolen bases in one season. [33] In Game 7 of the 2023 National League Championship Series, Carroll went 3-for-4 with two stolen bases, becoming the second-youngest player in MLB history with at least three hits and two steals in a playoff game, just behind Ty Cobb when he did it in the 1908 World Series at 21 years old. [34] Carroll won the National League Rookie of the Year Award by a unanimous vote, becoming the first Diamondbacks player to win the award (the Diamondbacks were the only remaining franchise to not win it at the time). [35]

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  5. ↑ "Corbin Carroll talks MLB Fight, Kevin Durant, & More: On Base with Mookie Betts, Ep. 9". August 5, 2023.
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