Kyle Karros

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Kyle Karros

Kyle Garret Karros

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Biographical Information[edit]

Third baseman Kyle Karros comes from a baseball family. His father, Eric Karros, was the 1992 National League Rookie of the Year who clubbed 284 home runs in a 14-year Major League career spent mostly with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and his older brother, Jared Karros, is a pitching prospect in the Dodgers chain. After slashing .276/.342/.407 at his father's alma matter - UCLA - the Colorado Rockies organization drafted him in the 5th round of the 2023 Amateur Draft. They sent him to the rookie league ACL Rockies, but he spent only three weeks there during which he slashed .327/.450/.408. He was moved up to the class A California League on August 15 and spent the rest of the season with the Fresno Grizzlies, in which hit .259/.365/.284. His aggregate numbers between the two levels were a slash line of .285/.397/.311 with 4 doubles, 17 RBI, and 3 stolen bases.

He moved up again to begin the 2024 season, to the Advanced-A Spokane Indians of the Northwest League. He and the Indians got off to a white-hot start, with Karros mashing .324/.439/.529 in the team's first nine games and the Indians winning the first eight in a row against the Vancouver Canadians and Tri-City Dust Devils. Karros hit his first professional home run on April 13th in Gesa Stadium against Brady Choban. It was an inside-the-park home run in an 8-3 Indians victory (Spokane's 8th win in succession to begin the season). His sizzling start continued through the month of April - he led the Northwest League in batting average (.333), slugging (.530), and OPS (.973), was second in on-base percentage (.443) and doubles (8), and checked in third with 22 hits, 35 total bases, and 14 RBI. On May 3rd, he was named the Northwest League Player of the Month for April. He would collect a Player of the Week award on June 30th, and ended the year at .311/.390/.485 from the #3 spot in the Indians' lineup. He led the NWL in hits (147), doubles (33), RBI (78), total bases (229), and batting average (among those who qualified). He was tied for 2nd with Josh Hood of the Everett AquaSox with 15 home runs, just one long ball fewer than teammate Cole Carrigg, Spokane's leadoff hitter. He collected the game-winning RBI of the 2024 Northwest League Championship Series on September 14th. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th inning, Geison Urbaez hit him with the first pitch of the plate appearance, forcing home the winning run; Spokane won the series over Vancouver, three games to one. He was named the Northwest League MVP on September 18th, the third straight player out of the Lilac City to earn the honor, following Zac Veen (2022) and Jordan Beck (2023). He was also one of six Indians to be named an NWL All-Star, along with Carrigg, Zach Agnos, Chase Dollander, Carson Skipper, and the NWL Pitcher of the Year, Sean Sullivan. Furthermore, Baseball America named him the circuit's best defensive third baseman.

He was a non-roster invitee to spring training by the Rockies in 2025. He started the season with the AA Hartford Yard Goats, but he missed almost a month of action with an injury in May. When he returned, after a brief rehabilitation stint in the Arizona Complex League, he batted .294 in 55 games and was promoted to the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes in mid-July. He had time to hit .306 and slug .500 in 16 games there before he was called up to Colorado, making his debut as the starting third baseman against the Arizona Diamondbacks on August 8th. He went 1 for 3 and drove in his team's lone run with his first big league hit, a single off Zac Gallen in the 2nd inning as the Rockies lost the game, 6-1.

Notable Achievements[edit]

Further Reading[edit]

  • Thomas Harding: "'Just be you’: Rox prospect Karros soaking in 1st Spring Training", mlb.com, March 7, 2025. [1]
  • "Kyle Karros Named NWL Player of the Month", milb.com/spokane, May 3, 2024 [2]
  • "Karros Named NWL MVP, Sullivan Earns POTY", milb.com/spokane, September 18, 2024 [3]

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