(through 2022 season)
Kodi James Whitley (born February 21,1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Whitley attended Cleveland High School outside of Clayton,North Carolina. [1] [2] In 2013,his senior year,he earned all-conference honors. [3] Undrafted in the 2013 Major League Baseball draft,he enrolled at the University of Mount Olive in Mount Olive,North Carolina,where he played college baseball.
In 2014,Whitley's freshman year,he pitched to a 6–2 record with a 2.74 ERA over 13 games (ten starts), [4] earning Conference Carolinas Freshman of the Year. [5] That summer,he played in the Coastal Plain League for the Fayetteville SwampDogs. [6] As a sophomore at Mount Olive in 2015,he appeared in 17 games (making 14 starts) in which he went 8–4 with a 4.41 ERA,striking out 88 batters over