SEATTLE — The Lakeside School, where Corbin Carroll played high school baseball, is 11 miles from T-Mobile Park, where he will take the field as a starting outfielder in the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday (8 p.m. ET on FOX). He has traversed the vast gap between the two fields in just four years — a rapid rise that has by turns shocked his biggest believers and trained them to stop doubting his ability to amaze.
A month shy of his 23rd birthday, Carroll is the best player on a surprisingly good Arizona Diamondbacks team. He's the clear NL Rookie of the Year favorite, and he must be considered a midseason contender for NL MVP. After a brief and promising debut in 2022, his first full season is eating up positive adjectives. With 18 homers and 26 stolen bases, he's one of only two members of the 15/15 club at the All-Star break, alongside Ronald Acuña Jr.
“The big thing is, like, this is the one All-Star game in his career that is going to be in Seattle, right? And so this was his one chance to make it,” said Kellen Sundin, Carroll’s high school coach at Lakeside. “You don't expect a rookie to make the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but it's like, yeah, of course he's gonna do that.”The revelations of Corbin Carroll seem to repeat themselves at each level of baseball. Never an imposing physical specimen, he opened Sundin’s eyes when he was 14.
Playing his way onto that team also helped Carroll climb up Arizona’s draft board. Far from a secret on the draft scene, Carroll was nonetheless less heralded than Witt and others on that squad. “So we walked into the year thinking, ‘Man, we're picking 16th,’” he said. “‘Based on what we've seen this summer, I don't see how this guy gets to our pick.’”What likely aided the D-backs had nothing to do with Carroll and everything to do with the region where he happened to grow up.
Carroll’s senior high school season was a trademark example of why so many of the talented players from Washington and Oregon — from Jacoby Ellsbury to Michael Conforto to Rutschman — wind up going to college to fully prove their bona fides. Weather and school schedules conspired to limit Carroll to two pregame batting practice sessions, crucial opportunities for scouts to judge raw ability.
“I can't sit here and say that I anticipated him hitting I don't how many home runs,” Sawdaye said with a chuckle as Carroll continued to rack up homers in late June. “But I do think, as a group, we had a lot of conviction in his ability to hit the ball hard and barrel up the baseball.”Only seven games into what would’ve been his first full minor-league season in 2021, Carroll tore the labrum and damaged the posterior capsule in his right shoulder.
. Together, the duo absorbed the lesson that even big leaguers aren't perfect, that there are mistakes in every game, that a consistent approach will lead to good things over the long haul.
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