Carson Kelly
Bats: RThrows: RAge: 31Season: 2025
2025 Season Stats
AVG
.238
OPS
0.727
HR
18
RBI
51
R
49
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BAL • Catcher • #15
about 2 months ago
Ragsdale will be making his major-league debut when he gets into a game. The 27-year-old pitching prospect was claimed off waivers from the Giants in early August. He’s posted an encouraging 3.47 ERA across seven appearances (five starts) for Triple-A Norfolk.
CHC • Catcher • #15
2 months ago
Kelly broke the seal for the Cubs’ lineup with his solo shot after Braves’ starter Chris Sale struck out eight of the first 12 batters he faced. That gave him four home runs in his last seven games as he closes out what’s been the best offensive season of his career to this point with 17 homers and a .799 OPS.
CHC • Catcher • #15
2 months ago
It’s Kelly’s fourth career two-homer game, three of which have come this season. He entered September having gone 27 straight games without an extra-base hit, but he has three homers in four games this month.
CHC • Catcher • #15
2 months ago
Kelly tied the game at 6-6 with a two-run homer, and then drove homer the game-winner in the 10th with a single to score Seiya Suzuki. Not a bad little Labor Day. Kelly now has 14 homers and has slashed .259/.350/.443 in his best season since 2019.
NYM • Catcher • #15
2 months ago
There are more than just elite pitching prospects in New York’s system. Benge is one the verge of ascending to top-25 range dynasty prospect status by season’s end as he’s continued making consistent hard contact in the upper minors while also controlling the strike zone at a borderline elite level. The 22-year-old power-hitter went deep for the first time since being promoted to Triple-A and is slashing a robust .305/.410/.507 with 43 extra-base hits, including 13 round-trippers, and 20 steals in 98 games this season.
NYM • Catcher • #15
3 months ago
All three rank inside the Mets’ top 10 prospects, according to MLB Pipeline, with Jett Williams being the top-ranked prospect, Benge ranked 4th, and Clifford ranked seventh. The Mets’ top-ranked pitching prospect, Jonah Tong, was also promoted to Triple-A on Sunday. Benge was the Mets’ first-round pick in the 2024 MLB Draft, and is one of the fastest risers on top prospect lists after hitting .311/.417/.519 with 12 home runs and 19 steals across 91 games between High-A and Double-A. Williams hit .284 in 95 games at Triple-A with 10 home runs and 32 steals, while Clifford had 24 home runs, four steals, and an .857 OPS in 104 games in Double-A this season. The future of the Mets’ lineup is pretty bright.
BAL • Catcher • #15
3 months ago
Ragsdale will heads to Triple-A Norfolk as a developmental project for Baltimore. The 27-year-old was removed from San Francisco’s 40-man roster earlier this week after struggling to an inflated 5.37 ERA across 65 1/3 innings (18 appearances, 14 starts).
CHC • Catcher • #15
3 months ago
The 31-year-old backstop smacked a leadoff single off of Trevor Rogers to open the second inning and advanced to third on a double by Pete Crow-Armstrong. He then trotted home on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Ian Happ. That would be the only run that either team would muster in the ballgame. With his two-hit attack, Kelly is now hitting .272/.367/.498 with 13 homers and 36 RBI in what has been a strong offensive season for the Cubs.
CHC • Catcher • #15
4 months ago
Kelly’s roller-coaster season has seen him hit .361/.500/.820 in his first 20 games and .156/.224/.211 in his subsequent 26. However, he’s bounced back nicely recently, batting .386/.461/.727 with three homers in his last 15 games. It all adds up to an .892 OPS, placing him third among catchers behind Cal Raleigh and Will Smith,
CHC • Catcher • #15
4 months ago
Kelly delivered a two-run double off of Gavin Williams in the second inning that extended the Cubs’ early lead to 3-0 and proved to be the difference in the ballgame. He also tacked on a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to cap off the scoring in the ballgame. With his two-hit night, the 30-year-old backstop is slashing a respectable .267/.369/.453 with nine homers and 29 RBI in 203 plate appearances on the season.
CHC • Catcher • #15
6 months ago
Kelly will miss his third straight game on Tuesday night due to illness. It’ll be Reese McGuire handling the catching duties in his absence. There figures to be an update on his status at some point ahead of Wednesday’s series finale at Wrigley Field.
Source: MLB.com
CHC • Catcher • #15
6 months ago
Reese McGuire, who was just called up from Triple-A Iowa, will handle the catching duties on Sunday afternoon in his place. Kelly has been an unexpected revelation this season in his Cubs debut and he’ll take on a larger share of the workload in the coming weeks with Miguel Amaya out with an oblique strain.
Source: Maddie Lee
CHC • Catcher • #15
6 months ago
Kelly replaced an injured Miguel Amaya at catcher in the fifth inning. He led off the seventh with a base hit and scored on a groundout. Kelly later led off the ninth with a solo homer off Emilio Pagán. The 30-year-old backstop is up to nine homers while hitting .301/.425/.612 with 24 RBI across 127 plate appearances.
CHC • Catcher • #15
6 months ago
Kelly continued his torrid start to the year by taking Giants reliever Hayden Birdsong deep in the sixth inning with a no-doubter to left field, kicking off an eventual five-run explosion in the frame. The 30-year-old journeyman backstop has been an unexpected revelation this season in his Chicago debut, batting an astronomical .361/.500/.820 with eight homers and 23 RBI through 20 games. He won’t sustain this stratospheric level of production forever, but fantasy managers should continue to ride the wave. He’s clearly a mixed-league relevant catcher for fantasy purposes until further notice.
CHC • Catcher • #15
7 months ago
Kelly has been hotter than the surface of the sun of late with Friday’s two-homer explosion raising his full-season OPS to a surreal 1.675 mark. The 30-year-old backstop has never showcased this level of elite offensive firepower previously, so we’re anticipating some regression. However, that doesn’t mean his transformation into a viable mixed-league catching option isn’t real. Kelly should be rostered in all fantasy formats by this point after hitting .419 with six homers and 18 RBI in just 11 contests. He’s not going to catch every single day for obvious workload reasons, but he’ll be an impactful fantasy contributor when he’s behind the plate for Chicago.
Source: MLB.com
CHC • Catcher • #15
7 months ago
The game was anything but wild for 6 1/2 innings, but after Corbin Burnes exited, the Cubs scored five times in the bottom of the seventh, giving them a 7-1 lead. The Diamondbacks responded with 10 in the top of the eighth, which included a grand slam from Eugenio Suárez and a three-run shot from Lourdes Gurriel Jr. However, the Diamondbacks were trying to avoid most of their top relievers today, and they let Bryce Jarvis and Joe Mantiply combine to give up six runs in the bottom of the eighth. Kelly, Kyle Tucker and Seiya Suzuki all homered in the frame. Ryan Pressly then calmly set Arizona down in the top of the ninth. Kelly is currently hitting an absurd .419/.578/1.097 in 45 plate appearances. Even though he debuted nine years ago in 2016, just these 11 games along have taken his career OPS from .681 to .701.
CHC • Catcher • #15
7 months ago
Kelly is back behind the dish after missing a pair of games following an early exit from Sunday’s showdown against the Dodgers with a wrist contusion. It doesn’t appear to be a serious concern moving forward.
Source: MLB.com
CHC • Catcher • #15
7 months ago
It’ll be Miguel Amaya behind the plate on Tuesday evening with Kelly sitting out with a wrist contusion. Fantasy managers should consider him day-to-day for now.
Source: MLB.com
CHC • Catcher • #15
7 months ago
X-rays came back negative for any fractures after Kelly was hit in the wrist by a 94-mph sinker from Dodgers ace Tyler Glasnow during Sunday night’s game. The 30-year-old backstop will likely get a couple days off for the swelling to subside before returning to Chicago’s lineup. It’ll be Miguel Amaya handling the catching duties in his absence.
Source: MLB.com
CHC • Catcher • #15
7 months ago
The 30-year-old backstop was pulled from Sunday night’s tilt against the Dodgers after getting drilled in the wrist by a 94 mph sinker from Tyler Glasnow. Fractures don’t always show up in the initial X-ray due to swelling and inflammation, so he’s not completely out of the woods just yet, but this is at least an encouraging sign. Fantasy managers should continue to monitor his status over the next couple of days.
Source: Taylor McGregor
CHC • Catcher • #15
7 months ago
Carson Kelly cannot be contained. The pair of homers brings his total up to four in 2025, and the three hits and pair of walks ups his slash to 417/.571/1.042 in the (very, very) limited sample. Kyren Paris could never. The regression is likely to be hard and swift, but Cubs’ fans have every right to enjoy what they’ve seen from Kelly in 2025.