Kyle Stowers

Kyle Jacob Stowers

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 3", Weight 200 lb.
School Stanford University
High School Christian High School (El Cajon)
Debut June 13, 2022

Born January 2, 1998 in El Cajon, CA USA

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Outfielder Kyle Stowers made his major league debut with the Baltimore Orioles in the middle of the 2022 season, three years after having been drafted in the second round of the 2019 amateur draft out of Stanford University. He was part of a wave of top draft picks added to the Orioles' organization when the team sank into the doldrums of the standings starting in 2018, and by the time he made his debut, having lost a full season of minor league baseball to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team was starting to show signs of turning things around, with the first members of that draft bounty, led by Adley Rutschman, starting to contribute at the big league level.

Stowers hit .253 in 34 games in his first season, but with an OPS+ of 106, as he showed some good power with 8 extra-base hits in his limited opportunities. He also had an excellent season with the AAA Norfolk Tides, where he hit .264/.357/.527 in 95 games, with 29 doubles and 19 homers. However, injuries messed with his 2023 season, when the Orioles took a big leap forward and ended up posting the best record in the American League. He was limited to just 75 minor league games, including rehab stints with the FCL Orioles and Class A Aberdeen IronBirds. He hit .245 in 68 games for Norfolk, with 17 homers and 49 RBIs. However, he only appeared in 14 major league games, going 2 for 30.

By the time spring training rolled around in 2024, the Orioles were awash in young players trying to make the major league roster including in the outfield with Heston Kjerstad and Colton Cowser, both of whom were also former top picks who had been outstanding in the minors. Stowers had to state his case with his bat, and that he did on March 17th when he became the first player since Mike Zunino in 2018 to homer three times in a spring training game, doing so in a split-squad game against the Detroit Tigers. At that point, he was leading all Orioles batters with 7 homers and 13 RBIs - but his competitors were also doing well and it was clear that some players who were big league-ready would need to return to AAA for the time being. In spite of his great spring, he was sent down to the minors on March 22nd alongside Kjerstad and the top overall prospect in all of baseball, Jackson Holliday, as the Orioles simply had too much young talent to put everyone on the opening day roster. On April 3rd, he showed that his performance in spring training was no fluke as he had another three-homer game, this one with Norfolk, as the team set a number of records in a 26-11 win over the Charlotte Knights. He managed just 19 games with Baltimore, hitting .306 with 1 homer and 9 RBIs, while at Norfolk he hit .240 in 58 games with 18 homers and 55 RBIs. At the trading deadline, the Orioles did what everyone had been expecting for a while, which was to use some of their excess young position players to strengthen their pitching. In Kyle's case, he was traded to the Miami Marlins along with IF Connor Norby on July 30th to acquire P Trevor Rogers. He played 50 games for Miami after the trade, hitting .182 with 2 homers and 15 RBIs, his OPS+ only at 53.

Given his poor performance after his trade to Miami in 2024, it was not a certainty that he would have a starting job in 2025, even on a Marlins team starved for good hitting, but he did manage to secure the starting right field job in spring training. He got off to a good start, hitting .323 and slugging .510 in March and April. On May 3rd, he had a career game against The Athletics, hitting his fifth homer of the season off Osvaldo Bido with one on in the 3rd, and then ending the game with a walk-off grand slam off closer Mason Miller with two outs in the 9th, giving Miami a 9-6 win. Miller, one of the hardest throwers in the majors, tried to blow a 101.7 mph fastball by him - but failed; it was the fastest pitch on which a Marlins player had hit a homer since pitch tracking began in 2008. He was named Miami's sole representative to the 2025 All-Star Game. He finished the first half with style, as he had the both the first five-hit game and the first three-homer game of his career against his former team, the Orioles, leading Miami to an 11-1 win on July 13th. All three homers were hit off Orioles starter Brandon Young. No Marlins player before had ever had a game with five hits and six RBIs, and the last to have hit three homers in a game had been Brian Anderson in 2020. He was one of three batters designated to take part in the swing-off that decided the All-Star Game, and set the table for the heroics of Kyle Schwarber by hitting one long ball. In his first game after the resumption of play on July 18th, he homered twice more, including a walk-off blast in the 10th inning in an 8-7 win over the Kansas City Royals. He became the first player in major league history to hit five homers in a two-game span, one of which was a walk-off blast. Ironically that homer came against Carlos Estevez, who Stowers had faced, and struck out against, in the All-Star Game. The two-game performance also featured a streak of getting a hit in 8 straight at-bats, and reaching base in 10 straight. He capped a great month by being named the National League Player of the Month for July after hitting .364 with 10 homers and an OPS of 1.269 for a resurgent Marlins team.

Notable Achievements[edit]

NL All-Star (2025)
20-Home Run Seasons: 1 (2025)

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