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Corbin Carroll

Arizona Diamondbacks · RF · through 2026-09-11

Elite season

Why he matters right now

Corbin Carroll leads the majors in triples

Through 142 games he is first in triples. It is a real league lead in a category that depends on opportunity as much as on the hitter, so the rate statistics below are the better read on how he has hit.

This has been his headline for 34 straight days.

The case in 30 seconds

  • 16 No. 1 in triples on MLB's own leaderboards — 16 triples MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  • .240 .803 OPS, 20 home runs, 63 RBI and 21 stolen bases over 142 games snapshot batting board — the union of MLB's top-10 hitting boards, then MLB's 3.1 PA per team game rule applied; not the league's full qualified pool

The honest caveat

It is still a partial season — 612 plate appearances so far. A rate moves fastest against the strongest arms a schedule has left, and the schedule ahead is not the schedule behind.

What to watch next

Next up: vs Texas Rangers.

Every claim above, with its source (3)
  1. No. 1 in triples on MLB's own leaderboards — 16 triples MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  2. No. 1 in triples on MLB's leaderboard MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  3. .803 OPS, 20 home runs, 63 RBI and 21 stolen bases over 142 games snapshot batting board — the union of MLB's top-10 hitting boards, then MLB's 3.1 PA per team game rule applied; not the league's full qualified pool

The evidence

Tracked on Live Chases

The score is an editorial score, not a measurement on a common scale. The rank above is this player's position on his own category's board — the ordering the site stands behind. See all tracked chases →

What changed last night

1 HR, 2 RBI W 9-1 vs Texas Rangers · 2026-09-11 carries a .240 average into today

What to watch next

vs Texas Rangers Chase Field · 8:10 p.m. ET Facing Kumar Rocker

Corbin Carroll faces a right-hander in Kumar Rocker. He is hitting .206 with 14 home runs in 359 at-bats against right-handers this season.

Situational splits

SplitABAVGHRRBIOPS
vs RHP 359 .206 1445 .731
vs LHP 171 .310 618 .955
Home 260 .258 1344 .887
Away 270 .222 719 .722
Day 197 .254 922 .875
Night 333 .231 1141 .760

2026 season, MLB Stats API. A split with no plate appearances is omitted rather than shown as zeroes.

142G
530AB
127H
.240AVG
20HR
63RBI
21SB
302B
163B
.803OPS

Chasing .400

.240Current AVG
142Consecutive hits needed to reach .400
125-for-100Needed over next 100 AB
2.100Rest-of-season AVG to finish .400 (105-for-50)

Status: IMPOSSIBLE

Milestone tracker

ChaseTargetCurrentPaceNeeded from hereStatus
.350 AVG .350 .240 .240 1.520 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
.380 AVG .380 .240 .240 1.880 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
.400 AVG .400 .240 .240 2.100 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
.406 AVG .406 .240 .240 2.180 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
.466 AVG .466 .240 .240 2.880 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
50 HR 50 20 22 30 in 14 g · 1 per 1.7 AB EXTREME
60 HR 60 20 22 40 in 14 g · 1 per 1.3 AB EXTREME
62 HR 62 20 22 42 in 14 g · 1 per 1.2 AB EXTREME
70 HR 70 20 22 50 in 14 g · 1 per 1.0 AB EXTREME
73 HR 73 20 22 53 in 14 g · 1 per 0.9 AB EXTREME
200 Hits 200 127 139 73 in 14 g EXTREME
225 Hits 225 127 139 98 in 14 g EXTREME
250 Hits 250 127 139 123 in 14 g EXTREME
262 Hits 262 127 139 135 in 14 g EXTREME
50 SB 50 21 23 29 in 14 g EXTREME
80 SB 80 21 23 59 in 14 g EXTREME
100 SB 100 21 23 79 in 14 g EXTREME
130 SB 130 21 23 109 in 14 g EXTREME
50 2B 50 30 33 20 in 14 g EXTREME
60 2B 60 30 33 30 in 14 g EXTREME
67 2B 67 30 33 37 in 14 g EXTREME
20 3B 20 16 18 4 in 14 g EXTREME
25 3B 25 16 18 9 in 14 g EXTREME
36 3B 36 16 18 20 in 14 g EXTREME
125 RBI 125 63 69 62 in 14 g EXTREME
150 RBI 150 63 69 87 in 14 g EXTREME
175 RBI 175 63 69 112 in 14 g EXTREME
191 RBI 191 63 69 128 in 14 g EXTREME

How likely is the finish?

0%finishes with 40+ home runs
0%finishes with 50+ home runs
0%finishes with 60+ home runs

His rate of 32.680 home runs per 1,000 plate appearances is read as 32.210 after regressing toward the league's 30.170 — a leaderboard selects for players who have outperformed, so an unregressed rate projected forward overstates every one of them. That puts the expected finish at 21.5, against a straight team-game pace of 22. Exact beta-binomial over 58 remaining plate appearances, averaged across playing-time scenarios. Calibrated against Retrosheet finishes: within 7 points of observed frequency in every band, and within 2 in three of five. It is a model, not a measurement.

Home run pace vs the benchmark seasons

36730162 gJudge 62Bonds 7320
Cumulative home runs by team game against straight 62 (Judge 2022) and 73 (Bonds 2001) paces. The homepage checkpoint card uses the exact game-by-game Retrosheet curves; these reference lines are straight-line paces.
0.0%of comparable chases reached 40 HR
0.0%of comparable chases reached 50 HR
0.0%of comparable chases reached 60 HR

Empirical: seasons within ±2 HR of his total at the same team-game checkpoint (n=2031); median finish 21. Retrosheet.

Recent game log

Derived nightly from the snapshot ledger — each row is the difference between consecutive days; multi-day rows are labeled.

DateOppResultABHHRRBIRSBBBKAVG
2026-09-11 Texas Rangers W 9-1 41 1 21 00 1 .240
2026-09-06 Houston Astros W 3-2 62 0 02 00 2 .240
2026-09-05 Houston Astros W 4-3 51 0 00 00 1 .238
2026-09-04 Houston Astros L 1-3 40 0 00 00 2 .239
2026-09-01 Philadelphia Phillies L 1-7 30 0 00 10 0 .241
2026-08-31 Philadelphia Phillies L 1-2 91 0 00 00 3 .242
2026-08-29 San Francisco Giants W 7-1 70 0 01 02 2 .244
2026-08-28 San Francisco Giants W 10-6 31 1 31 01 1 .248
2026-08-27 San Francisco Giants L 1-6 40 0 00 00 1 .247
2026-08-26 Chicago Cubs W 2-0 30 0 00 00 2 .249

Recent highlights

Lahman + Retrosheet context

How this season fits history

Historical twinChris Young · 2011

88% season-shape match

HR checkpoint-44 vs Barry Bonds

Through 148 team games; 64 in 2001

Chase history

.238.285.33304-0109-11
Batting average, day by day
16355404-0109-11
Projected HR, day by day