| Corbin Carroll | |||||||||||||||
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| Arizona Diamondbacks – No. 7 | |||||||||||||||
| Outfielder | |||||||||||||||
| Born: (2000-08-21)August 21, 2000 (age 25) Seattle, Washington, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Left Throws: Left | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| August 29, 2022, for the Arizona Diamondbacks | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics (through 2025 season) | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .258 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 82 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 248 | ||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 123 | ||||||||||||||
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Corbin Franklin Carroll (born August 21, 2000) is an American professionalbaseballoutfielder for theArizona Diamondbacks ofMajor League Baseball (MLB). The Diamondbacks selected Carroll 16th overall in the first round of the2019 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2022. In 2023, Carroll was anMLB All-Star and was named theNational League Rookie of the Year en route to winning Arizona's firstNational League pennant since 2001. Carroll was again named an All-Star in 2025.
Corbin Franklin Carroll was born on August 21, 2000, inSeattle, Washington,[1] to Brant and Pey-Lin Carroll.[2] He is biracial; his father is Irish-American, and his mother was born inTaiwan and moved to Louisiana with her parents at the age of four.[3] Carroll has a younger sister who went toHoly 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]
Carroll played on the USA 18U National Team that won Gold in the 2018 COPABE Pan-American Championships. He attendedLakeside School inSeattle,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 playcollege baseball atUCLA.[9]
TheArizona Diamondbacks selected Carroll with the 16th overall pick in the first round of the2019 Major League Baseball draft.[10][11] He signed for $3.7 million and was assigned to theArizona 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 theHillsboro 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 theCOVID-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 theAmarillo Sod Poodles of theTexas League.[22] In early July, he was promoted to theReno Aces of thePacific Coast League.[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]
The Diamondbacks promoted Carroll to the major leagues on August 29, 2022.[24] He made his debut later that day, against thePhiladelphia 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 ofSan Diego Padres starterYu 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, after having played in only 32 major league games.[30] Carroll immediately made an impact for the Diamondbacks to begin the 2023 season, hitting .309 with a .910OPS and 10 stolen bases in the month of April.[31] On June 1 against theColorado Rockies, Carroll hit a two-out, two-run single in the ninth inning, marking the first walk-off hit of his career.[32] Carroll hit his first career grand slam on June 9 against theDetroit Tigers, and later won the National League Rookie of the Month for June, hitting .291 with eight homers, 22 RBIs, and eight steals.[33] On June 29, it was announced Carroll would be a starting outfielder in the2023 All-Star Game in his hometown of Seattle, marking his first career All-Star appearance.[34][35]
In his first full season in the majors, Carroll slashed .285/.362/.506 with 30 doubles, 10 triples, 25 homers, 76 RBI, 57 walks, and 54 stolen bases in 155 games.[36] He became the first rookie in major league history to join the20–50 club, reaching 20+ home runs and 50+ stolen bases in the same season.[37] He also became the first player ever to have 10+ triples, 25+ doubles, 25+ home runs, and 50+ stolen bases in a single season.[31] Carroll won theMajor League Baseball 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 not to have a player win it at the time),[38] and the first Asian-American to win it.[4] He was also named to theAll-MLB First Team as an outfielder and finished fifth in NL MVP voting.[39]
Carroll helped the Diamondbacks advance to the 2023 postseason, where they faced theMilwaukee Brewers in theWild Card Series. Down 3–0 early in game 1, Carroll hit a 444-foot, two-run home run to spark six unanswered Diamondback runs as they won 6–3.[40] Carroll and the Diamondbacks closed out the Brewers in game 2 and swept theLos Angeles Dodgers in theDivision Series, with Carroll boasting a slash line of .412/.565/.824 across the five games.[31] In theNLCS against thePhiladelphia Phillies, Carroll struggled with a .222 average and a .489 OPS, but he turned it around in game 7, going 3-for-4 with two RBIs and two stolen bases, becoming the second-youngest player in MLB history (behindTy Cobb in the1908 World Series) to achieve at least three hits and two steals in a playoff game.[41] Carroll reached the2023 World Series in his first full season with the Diamondbacks, where they lost in five games to theTexas Rangers, with Carroll driving in four runs in the series.[31]
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In the first half of the 2024 season, Carroll's performance declined significantly. Prior to theAll-Star Game, Carroll had a dismal batting average of .212 with only five home runs, 32 RBIs, and 18 stolen bases through 94 games.[42] This was a sharp dropoff compared to the first half of his rookie season, in which Carroll batted .289 with 18 home runs, 48 RBIs, and 26 stolen bases before the All-Star Game. Carroll achieved his first-half rookie numbers in 86 games, eight games fewer than in 2024, further highlighting hissophomore slump.[43]
In the second half of the 2024 season, Carroll turned his power numbers around by focusing on making better contact and driving the ball in the air. Following a .334 slugging percentage and five home runs at the All-Star break, Carroll slugged .660 with 14 homers in the first 40 games following the All-Star break, including a surge in power against high-velocity fastballs.[44] On July 29 against theWashington Nationals, Carroll hit a pinch-hit, two-run home run to cap off a five-run ninth-inning rally as the Diamondbacks won 9–8. The home run marked Carroll's first career walk-off home run.[45]
On August 16, Carroll hit a two-out, two-run home run off closerPete Fairbanks of theTampa Bay Rays in the ninth to tie the game, but the Diamondbacks ultimately lost in extra innings.[46] On August 28, he hit two home runs against theNew York Mets, including a two-out go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning against closerEdwin Diaz to lead the Diamondbacks to an 8–5 victory.[47] Carroll was later named theNL Player of the Month for August, slashing .280/.342/.700 with 11 homers, 24 RBI, and 30 runs scored in the month.[48] In his second full season in the majors, Carroll slashed .231/.424/.740 with 22 doubles, 14 triples, 22 homers, 74 RBI, 73 walks, and 35 stolen bases in 158 games.
On June 13, 2025, Carroll hit his 20th homer of the year as part of a three-run rally in the fifth inning, which led to Arizona's 5-1 victory over theSan Diego Padres. It's the third straight season Carroll has reached the 20-homer mark.[49] On September 21, Carroll stole his 30th stolen base to become the 50th member of the30-30 club, and the first in Diamondback history.[50] Due to reaching that milestone, Carroll became the second player in MLB history to record 30+ HR, 30+ SB, 30+ 2B, and 15+ 3B in a season, joiningJimmy Rollins (2007).[51]
Carroll ended the 2025 season with a slash line of .259/.343/.491 with 31 homers in 143 games and a career-highWins Above Replacement (WAR) of 5.8 onBaseball Reference, and 6.5 onFangraphs.[52][53] Fangraphs ranked him as tied for fourth among all National League players in 2025.[54]
Carroll was invited to join theTaiwanese national baseball team for the2026 World Baseball Classic. He declined, informingChinese Professional Baseball League commissionerTsai Chi-chang that he would seek a roster spot on theUnited States national baseball team.[55]
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