Kyren Paris #19

Kyren Terrell Paris...On Twitter: @kyren_paris...Did not play during 2020 season, but was part of Angels Player Pool and participated at Alternate Training Site in Long Beach....Limited to three games for AZL Angels in 2019 after breaking a hamate bone during batting practice....Committed to University of California, but elected to sign with Angels after being drafted in 2019....Graduate of Freedom HS (Oakley, Calif.), where he was a four-year varsity letterman...Completed his senior year with a .306 (16/62) batting average with 16 runs scored, three doubles, three triples, six RBI and 11 stolen bases....Originally signed by Angels scout Brian Tripp.

2025

Made first career Opening Day roster with Angels and had a 1.018 OPS through his first 19 games...Over the last 100 seasons, Paris was the seventh player age-23 (or younger) to have an OPS that high and at least five stolen bases through their first 19 games of a season, joining Don Baylor (1972 Orioles), Tony Gwynn (1984 Padres), Kal Daniels (1987 Reds), Hanley Ramirez (2007 Marlins), Fernando Tatis Jr. (2020 Padres) and Jazz Chisholm Jr. (2021 Marlins)... First player in American League history with at least five home runs and five stolen bases with an OPS of 1.400 or higher through a team's first 14 games of the season; the only N.L. players to do so are Eric Davis (1987) and Larry Walker (1997)... Had highest OPS through 12 games for a player age-23 or younger (min. 30 PA) since Jimmie Foxx (1.595) for the 1928 Philadelphia A's... Notched first career multi-homer game April 9 at TB; homered in three consecutive games Apr. 6-9 (first time in career)...Had nine-game on-base streak from Mar. 29 - Apr. 9... Third Angels player age-23 or younger to hit four home runs in a three-game span, joining Wally Joyner (1986) and Mike Trout (2015)...Paris is the seventh Angels player with homers in three straight games in his age-23 season or younger, joining Jim Spencer (1969), Wally Joyner (1986), Garret Anderson (1995), Troy Glaus (2000), Mike Trout (2013) and Shohei Ohtani (2018)... Had a game-tying or go-ahead hit in three consecutive games from March 30-April 1 to become the fourth player in Angels history with a tying or go-ahead RBI in the seventh inning-or-later of three straight games, joining Jared Walsh (April 3-5, 2021), Rod Carew (June 9-11, 1980) and Willie Smith (June 22-24, 1964). (ELIAS).. Optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake on May 26, and batted .224 (26/116) with a .825 OPS across 34 combined games with the Bees and Low-A Inland Empire to finish the season...Was recalled to Angels on June 23 and appeared in one game in final MLB stint of the year, as a defensive replacement on June 24 against Boston.

2024

Began season with Double-A Rocket City and batted .091 (7/77) with eight runs scored, two extra-base hits, seven RBI, and eight stolen bases over 23 games...Recalled on May 9 and appeared in 21 games for Angels; batted .118 (6/51) with four runs scored, two doubles, one home run and five RBI...Hit first career home run on May 22 at Houston (2-run HR off Hunter Brown)...Finished the season with Triple-A Salt Lake and batted .209 (29/139) with 20 runs scored, five doubles, two triples, four home runs, 19 RBI and eight stolen bases in 37 games.

2023

Contract selected by Angels, Sept. 1; played in 15 games across two Major League stints... Made Major League debut Sept. 1 at Oakland... Recorded first career Major League hit Sept. 2 at OAK via a single off Paul Blackburn...First career RBI came on Sept. 7 vs. Cleveland with game-tying RBI single in 9th inning off Emmanuel Clase and scored winning run on Randal Grichuk walk-off single... Missed final 12 games of the season on injured list with a left thumb ligament tear... In 113 games for Double-A Rocket City, led team (min. 350 PA) in batting average, runs scored, doubles (tied), walks, stolen bases, on-base percentage, and OPS...Reached safely in each of last 29 games for Trash Pandas, tying the Rocket City record... Set Trash Pandas franchise record with 44 stolen bases in 2023...Is all-time Rocket City stolen bases leader (49)... At the time of his promotion on Sept. 1, Paris was leading the Southern League in runs scored and walks... Finished season ranked second in the Southern League in walks (88), third in runs scored (79), fourth in stolen bases (44), sixth in OBP (.393) and 10th in total bases (173)... Named Southern League All-Star and participated in SiriusXM Futures Game.

2022

Played majority of season with High-A Tri-City, where he appeared in 89 games with a team-leading 28 stolen bases... Among Northwest League leaders, was fourth in triples, tied for seventh in runs and stolen bases, tied for eighth in walks and was ninth in OBP... Was Northwest League Player of the Week for Aug. 8-14, 2022 after batting .474 (9/19) with three triples, two RBI, seven walks and a 1.419 OPS in six games for Dust Devils... Promoted to Double-A Rocket City Aug. 31 and hit .359 (14/39) in 14 games for Trash Pandas, while posting a 1.151 OPS.