Kyle Regnault

Kyle Regnault is an American baseball pitcher, born on December 13, 1988, who is nicknamed Leaf and played professionally in the United States and Japan. He attended La Salle Academy in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was named to the Rhode Island All-State baseball team and won a state wrestling championship. After two years at Chipola College he moved to the University of Rhode Island, where Tommy John surgery limited him to 13 games in two seasons. Passed over in the Major League Baseball draft, he began his professional career in the independent Canadian American Association with the Worcester Tornadoes and the Québec Capitales. The New York Mets signed him before the 2015 season and he rose through their system to the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s in 2017. In 2019 he made 52 appearances for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball, going 6-3 with a 3.34 earned run average. He signed with the San Diego Padres organization in 2020 but never played for them.