BIOGRAPHY
Corbin Carroll was born August 21, 2000, in Seattle, Washington. He is an outfielder in the MLB.
The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Carroll in the first round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft. He signed for $3.7 million and was assigned to the Arizona League Diamondbacks to make his professional debut. 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. Over 11 games with Hillsboro, he batted .326 with six RBIs. Between the two teams, he batted .299/.409/.487 in 154 at bats, with 18 stolen bases in 19 attempts.
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. Carroll 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. At the time, he was 10-for-23 for the season.
Carroll opened the 2022 season with the Amarillo Sod Poodles. In early July, he was promoted to the Reno Aces. 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.
The Diamondbacks promoted Carroll to the major leagues on August 29, 2022. He made his debut later that day, against the Philadelphia Phillies. He went 1–for-5 with a two-RBI double. In 2022 with Arizona, he batted .260/.330/.500 in 104 at bats, playing primarily left field, and was the 7th-youngest ballplayer in the NL. He had the fastest sprint speed of any major league player, at 30.7 feet/second.
On March 11, 2023, Carroll signed a contract extension worth $111 million over eight years with the Diamondbacks.
On September 20, 2023, Carroll became the first rookie in Major League history to record 25 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season. 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. Carroll won the National League Rookie of the Year Award.
