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Kyle Wright

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Born
1995 (29 years old)

Birth Place

Huntsville, Alabama

Position
Pitcher

Status
Injured

Ethnicity
White

Team Number
30

Height
6' 4"

Weight
215

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Team
Kansas City Royals

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Kyle Hardy Wright (born October 2, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Atlanta Braves. He played college baseball at Vanderbilt University. He was selected by the Braves with the fifth overall selection of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, and made his MLB debut in 2018.

Early life
Kyle was born in Huntsville, Alabama, to Roger and Belinda Wright. He has an elder brother, Mitchell, and younger brother, Trey.

Amateur career
Wright attended Buckhorn High School in New Market, Alabama. As a junior, he went 6–2 with a 0.88 earned run average (ERA) and 75 strikeouts. He committed to Vanderbilt University to play college baseball.

As a freshman at Vanderbilt in 2015, Wright appeared in 29 games with three starts and went 6–1 with a 1.23 ERA, 62 strikeouts and four saves. Wright became a full-time starter in 2016. In 16 starts, he went 8–4 with a 3.09 ERA and 107 strikeouts. After the season, he played for the United States collegiate national team. As a junior in 2017, Wright went 5–6 with a 3.40 ERA and 121 strikeouts.