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Jersey Number 18
Kannon Carr
- Position:
- RHP
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 190
- Hometown:
- Poplar Bluff, Mo.
- High School:
- Poplar Bluff HS
- Prev School:
- Jefferson College
Get to Know Kannon ...
At what age did you start playing baseball and how did you get into baseball?
- I started playing at three years old. My brothers played so my parents started me.
How would you describe your game to someone who has never seen you play?
- Quick, by the book.
- Football, I played all growing up and through high school.
- My dad, he has always set a good example of what a man, a father, and a husband should look like.
- Albert Pujols, but I model my game after Tim Lincecum.
NAME & HOMETOWN PRONUNCIATION
SINGLE-GAME CAREER HIGHS
- Innings pitched: 4.0, at A&M-Corpus Christi, Feb 16, 2025
- Walks allowed: 3, Milwaukee, Mar 09, 2025
- Strikeouts: 5, Omaha, Feb 28, 2025
- Batters faced: 13, at A&M-Corpus Christi, Feb 16, 2025
- Field chances: 1, at A&M-Corpus Christi, Feb 16, 2025 ; at Tarleton State, Feb 22, 2025 ; Milwaukee, Mar 09, 2025
- Assists: 1, at A&M-Corpus Christi, Feb 16, 2025 ; at Tarleton State, Feb 22, 2025 ; Milwaukee, Mar 09, 2025
JUNIOR – 2025
- Committed in March 2024
JEFFERSON COLLEGE – 2023-24
- Spent two years in the Jefferson program
- All-Region Second Team in 2023
- NJCAA All-Academic First Team in 2023
- Career: 11-2, 4.19 ERA, 109.1 IP, 57 BB, 132 SO, 1 SV in 24 appearances (two starts)
- 2024: 9-2, 4.08 ERA, 53.0 IP, 30 BB, 58 SO, 1 SV in 11 appearances (one start)
- Posted a 2-0 record with a 4.31 ERA in 56.1 innings pitched in 13 appearances (one start) as a freshman in 2023
- Recorded 74 strikeouts and 11.82 strikeouts per nine innings along with a 1.35 WHIP in 2023
- Helped Jefferson become Midwest Community College Athletic Conference Champions in 2023
HIGH SCHOOL
- Played four years of baseball at Poplar Bluff High School in Poplar Bluff, Missouri
- Ranked the No. 23 right-handed pitcher in Missouri, and the No. 74 overall prospect in the state by Perfect Game in 2022
- Selected to the all-conference and all-district teams his junior and senior years
- Set a single-season record for innings pitched
- Threw an 8-inning complete game against the No. 1 team in his district junior year
- Senior year threw a 6-inning shutout with 12 strikeouts against a state-ranked opponent
- Played four years of football and two years of basketball in addition to baseball
- Earned all-conference and all-district honors in football his junior and senior years
- Threw for five touchdowns in a game his junior year
- Threw for 427 yards in a game his senior year
- Top 30 in his graduating class
- Scholar Athlete of the Year in all of southeast Missouri
PERSONAL
- Son of Richard and Shanna Carr
- Has two older brothers, Kyler and Keaton
- Picked Kansas over Purdue, Jacksonville State, SEMO, Rutgers, Nebraska, UNC Charlotte and Long Island
- Chose Kansas because, “They offer a great education, they have a great baseball program, and they gave me a great scholarship offer.”
- Majoring in liberal arts & sciences
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