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 and 2026. He is the active leader in triples with 59.
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Early life
Corbin Franklin Carroll was born on August 21, 2000, in Seattle, Washington, to Brant and Pey-Lin Carroll. 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. Carroll participated in cross-country sports to improve his speed.
Amateur career
Carroll played on the USA U-18 National Team that won Gold in the 2018 COPABE Pan-American Championships. He attended Lakeside School in Seattle. 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.
Professional career
Draft and minor leagues
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 of the Texas League. In early July, he was promoted to the Reno Aces of the Pacific Coast League. 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.
Arizona Diamondbacks (2022–present)
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, after having played in only 32 major league games. 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.
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. He became the first rookie in major league history to join the 20–50 club, reaching 20+ home runs and 50+ stolen bases in the same season. He also became the first player ever to have 10+ triples, 25+ doubles, 25+ home runs, and 50+ stolen bases in a single season. Carroll won the Major 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), and the first Asian-American to win it. He was also named to the All-MLB First Team as an outfielder and finished fifth in NL MVP voting.
Carroll helped the Diamondbacks advance to the 2023 postseason, where they faced the Milwaukee Brewers in the Wild 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. Carroll and the Diamondbacks closed out the Brewers in game 2 and swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Division Series, with Carroll boasting a slash line of .412/.565/.824 across the five games. In the NLCS against the Philadelphia 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 (behind Ty Cobb in the 1908 World Series) to achieve at least three hits and two steals in a playoff game. Carroll reached the 2023 World Series in his first full season with the Diamondbacks, where they lost in five games to the Texas Rangers, with Carroll driving in four runs in the series.
Awards and honors
MLB
3× All-Star (2023, 2025, 2026)
National League Rookie of the Year (2023)
2× All-MLB Team selection:
All-MLB First Team (2023)
All-MLB Second Team (2025)
Silver Slugger Award (2025)
National League Player of the Month (August 2024)
National League Rookie of the Month (June 2023)
3× National League Player of the Week (June, 11 2023; September, 1 2024; August, 16 2026)
Players Choice Award for National League Outstanding Rookie (2023)
MiLB
USA Today Minor League Player of the Year Award (2022)
All-Star Futures Game selection (2022)
Baseball America Triple-A All-Star selection (2022)
Baseball America Double-A All-Star selection (2022)
Texas League Postseason All-Star selection (2023)
International
COPABE U-18 Pan-American Championships Gold Medalist (2018)
High school
MLB statistical achievements
20–50 club – September 20, 2023, San Francisco Giants
30–30 club – September 21, 2025, Philadelphia Phillies
International career
Carroll was invited to join the Taiwanese national baseball team for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. He declined, informing Chinese Professional Baseball League commissioner Tsai Chi-chang that he would seek a roster spot on the United States national baseball team. Ultimately, Carroll did not end up playing for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic due to a broken hamate bone in his right hand.