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Corbin Carroll

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. Carroll was again named an All-Star in 2025.

Corbin Franklin Carroll was born on August 21, 2000, in Seattle, Washington, to Brant and Pey-Lin Carroll. 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. 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. Carroll participated in cross-country sports to improve his speed.

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. As a senior in 2019, he hit .540 with nine home runs and a 1.859 OPS. He committed to play college baseball at UCLA.

The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Carroll with the 16th overall pick 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. 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. At the time, he was 10-for-23 (.435) 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. On September 7, Carroll hit his first career home run, a solo shot off of San Diego Padres starter Yu Darvish. 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. 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. Carroll immediately made an impact for the Diamondbacks to begin the 2023 season, hitting .309 with a .910 OPS and 10 stolen bases in the month of April. On June 1 against the Colorado Rockies, Carroll hit a two-out, two-run single in the ninth inning, marking the first walk-off hit of his career. Carroll hit his first career grand slam on June 9 against the Detroit Tigers, and later won the National League Rookie of the Month for June, hitting .291 with eight homers, 22 RBIs, and eight steals. On June 29, it was announced Carroll would be a starting outfielder in the 2023 All-Star Game in his hometown of Seattle, marking his first career All-Star appearance.

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