Kyle Wright

BIOGRAPHY

Kyle Wright was born October 2, 1995, in Huntsville, Alabama. He is a pitcher in the MLB.

The Atlanta Braves selected Wright with the fifth overall selection of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft. He signed for a $7 million signing bonus on June 16, and was assigned to the GCL Braves. Wright was promoted to the Florida Fire Frogs in August 2017, and finished the season there. In nine games started between the two teams, he was 0–1 with a 2.65 ERA.

Wright was called up to the major leagues for the first time on September 1, 2018. He was the first player from the 2017 draft class to make it to the majors. He made his major league debut on September 4 against the Boston Red Sox. He was 0-0 with a 4.50 ERA in six innings pitched.

Wright made the Braves' starting rotation at the start of the 2019 season.

He spent most of the 2021 regular season with Gwinnett, with which he was 10-5 with a 3.02 ERA in 24 starts in which he pitched 137 innings. He also pitched two starts for the Braves and was 0-1 with a 9.95 ERA in 6.1 innings. On October 26, 2021, it was announced that Wright was added to the Braves roster for the World Series against the Houston Astros. Wright pitched one inning in Game Two, striking out the side. Then, in Game Four, he entered the game with one out, and the bases loaded in the first inning. Wright proceeded to work out of the jam with only one inherited runner scoring, then pitched four subsequent innings, allowing only one additional run. The Braves scored three runs, with successive home runs by Dansby Swanson and Jorge Soler, and won the game, 3-2.

Wright began the 2022 season on the Braves Opening Day roster. On September 24, Wright won his twentieth game of the season, and became the first Braves pitcher since Russ Ortiz in 2003 to reach that milestone. Before the season had begun, Wright had only recorded two career wins. Wright matched Ortiz's 2003 win total on October 1, 2022, and ended the regular season as the major league leader in victories. A Braves pitcher had not led MLB in wins since Tom Glavine's 2000 season.