Kyren Paris #44

Kyren Terrell Paris...On Twitter: @kyren_paris...2023 marks first season as a non-roster invitee to Major League Spring Training... Missed nearly two months of 2021 season with a non-displaced fibula fracture....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 yea 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.

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.