Matt Carpenter
1B | B/T: L/R | 6' 4" 210LBS | Age: 37
Draft: 2009 | Rd: 13, #399, St. Louis Cardinals | Texas Christian

Stats

PA AB R H HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 154 128 28 39 15 37 0 .305 .412 .727 1.139
12 Seasons 5379 4531 780 1192 170 613 27 .263 .369 .456 .825
AVG HR RBI SB OPS
2022 .305 15 37 0 1.139
12 Seasons .263 170 613 27 .825

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Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 Sweet
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB%
2015 29 2807 427 39 9.1 5.9 88.9 109.5 16.9 42.4 .285 .526 .372 .391 .476 35.8 22.7 12.2
2016 30 2390 372 42 11.3 7.4 90.7 111.1 18.2 43.0 .287 .543 .375 .398 .452 41.9 19.1 14.3
2017 31 2764 379 31 8.2 5.0 89.7 113.0 22.6 37.7 .255 .483 .361 .381 .412 37.2 20.1 17.5
2018 32 2853 410 56 13.7 8.3 90.7 109.4 21.6 44.1 .267 .542 .375 .391 .476 44.7 23.4 15.1
2019 33 2166 293 21 7.2 4.3 88.0 108.9 19.0 36.2 .219 .406 .315 .323 .378 31.1 26.2 12.8
2020 34 736 92 9 9.8 5.3 88.1 106.2 17.1 44.6 .212 .403 .293 .332 .393 36.3 28.4 13.6
2021 35 1123 131 15 11.5 6.0 90.0 106.9 21.1 45.0 .225 .427 .269 .341 .433 42.0 30.9 14.1
2022 36 723 95 13 13.7 8.4 89.8 107.7 22.4 41.1 .231 .485 .472 .362 .415 42.1 22.7 12.3
Player 15562 2199 226 10.3 6.3 89.6 113.0 19.8 41.4 .258 .494 .357 .373 .439 38.8 23.1 14.3
MLB 6.7 4.6 88.4 122.4 12.1 33.0 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 35.8 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 31.6 29.0 36.8 2.6 38.2 39.6 22.0 2.6 22.2 25.1 27.9 8.2 9.1 5.9
2016 32.8 33.9 30.4 3.0 46.5 35.2 18.0 3.0 20.7 28.0 26.6 8.1 11.3 7.4
2017 29.0 37.7 26.6 6.6 45.9 31.4 22.7 2.9 15.3 37.7 25.6 8.4 8.2 5.0
2018 28.3 37.8 28.5 5.4 47.6 30.7 21.7 3.2 15.6 30.0 24.9 11.5 13.7 8.3
2019 34.5 34.8 25.3 5.5 44.7 30.7 24.6 5.1 21.8 31.1 23.2 8.5 7.2 4.3
2020 38.0 40.2 21.7 0.0 52.2 29.3 18.5 3.3 23.9 32.6 25.0 4.3 9.8 5.3
2021 30.5 43.5 22.1 3.8 43.5 36.6 19.8 3.1 17.6 30.5 26.7 10.7 11.5 6.0
2022 27.4 40.0 25.3 7.4 57.9 23.2 18.9 6.3 14.7 32.6 22.1 9.5 13.7 8.4
Player 31.2 35.6 28.9 4.4 45.3 33.3 21.3 3.4 19.0 30.4 25.6 8.9 10.3 6.3
MLB 44.9 23.1 25.0 7.1 36.8 37.7 25.4 3.8 33.0 24.6 24.4 5.7 6.7 4.6
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2022 4-Seamer 3.8 11 281 38.9 62 .300 .860 .527 20.7 19.4 12.6 .249 .673 .449 55.3
2022 Changeup -0.6 -1 105 14.5 14 .231 .385 .357 38.9 28.6 14.8 .211 .267 .242 11.1
2022 Curveball 3.6 3 96 13.3 14 .364 .727 .511 9.7 14.3 5.3 .211 .320 .329 33.3
2022 Slider 4.0 3 85 11.8 25 .250 .750 .466 41.0 36.0 25.7 .192 .394 .338 36.4
2022 Sinker 1.8 1 80 11.1 16 .375 .563 .403 17.6 12.5 8.7 .304 .395 .304 50.0
2022 Cutter 3.1 1 36 5.0 15 .333 .667 .411 14.3 26.7 28.6 .173 .372 .249 20.0
2022 Splitter -1.1 0 24 3.3 4 .250 .250 .225 28.6 25.0 9.1 .182 .200 .172 33.3
2022 Sweeper 6.3 1 13 1.8 1 -- -- .700 0.0 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
2021 4-Seamer -0.2 -1 390 34.7 87 .187 .347 .301 26.3 27.6 20.2 .235 .518 .365 49.0
2021 Changeup -0.1 0 190 16.9 43 .158 .211 .223 26.7 23.3 16.1 .283 .405 .342 32.1
2021 Sinker -0.8 -1 164 14.6 40 .207 .276 .350 19.2 15.0 18.2 .293 .477 .414 54.2
2021 Slider -2.7 -4 144 12.8 35 .069 .138 .191 41.0 48.6 31.5 .134 .241 .252 16.7
2021 Curveball -0.5 -1 142 12.6 24 .100 .250 .238 47.1 58.3 40.0 .069 .121 .183 16.7
2021 Cutter -1.1 -1 69 6.1 14 .273 .273 .343 25.8 21.4 18.8 .302 .685 .473 50.0
2021 Splitter -3.7 -1 17 1.5 3 .000 .000 .000 55.6 100.0 42.9 -- -- .000 --
2021 Sweeper 7.3 1 7 0.6 2 1.000 1.500 1.075 0.0 0.0 0.0 .542 1.716 .923 50.0
2020 4-Seamer -0.2 -1 234 31.8 61 .146 .333 .306 22.3 23.0 17.5 .221 .452 .369 38.2
2020 Changeup -3.8 -4 114 15.5 26 .077 .077 .069 50.0 34.6 25.7 .154 .195 .152 17.6
2020 Sinker 4.4 5 111 15.1 26 .400 .550 .481 20.8 15.4 13.3 .375 .641 .491 56.3
2020 Slider -1.0 -1 101 13.7 23 .111 .111 .230 55.3 43.5 29.4 .121 .212 .261 12.5
2020 Curveball 3.1 3 97 13.2 12 .111 .222 .354 39.1 25.0 13.0 .103 .297 .295 33.3
2020 Cutter 0.8 0 46 6.3 13 .333 .500 .385 33.3 38.5 41.7 .328 .750 .465 57.1
2020 Splitter -3.7 -1 20 2.7 4 .250 .250 .225 12.5 50.0 15.4 .034 .065 .041 0.0
2020 Sweeper 4.8 0 9 1.2 2 .500 2.000 1.000 25.0 50.0 33.3 .100 .360 .179 100.0
2019 4-Seamer 0.7 5 775 35.8 186 .269 .506 .391 22.6 20.4 16.8 .278 .582 .405 37.0
2019 Sinker 1.1 4 343 15.8 79 .381 .587 .454 16.3 15.2 16.4 .282 .496 .378 35.2
2019 Slider -1.8 -6 333 15.4 69 .121 .138 .208 31.5 40.6 21.2 .143 .194 .232 16.7
2019 Changeup -3.5 -11 311 14.4 84 .128 .192 .179 30.7 28.6 21.1 .175 .276 .226 22.2
2019 Curveball 1.5 3 196 9.0 28 .250 .583 .371 21.7 28.6 15.4 .144 .302 .240 35.3
2019 Cutter -0.1 0 93 4.3 22 .063 .063 .232 30.3 45.5 35.7 .126 .183 .287 33.3
2019 Splitter -2.7 -2 68 3.1 14 .077 .077 .064 48.7 57.1 25.8 .083 .103 .168 16.7
2019 Sweeper 2.8 0 4 0.2 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 4-Seamer 1.7 19 1,113 39.0 272 .308 .643 .442 15.0 16.9 15.2 .319 .672 .466 50.8
2018 Sinker -0.1 -1 570 20.0 128 .212 .356 .328 17.0 15.6 16.3 .300 .634 .448 54.1
2018 Slider -1.2 -5 392 13.7 82 .125 .250 .215 45.6 46.3 24.7 .132 .212 .216 26.5
2018 Changeup 1.1 4 324 11.4 85 .228 .481 .325 30.7 27.1 23.0 .247 .455 .328 26.8
2018 Curveball 2.6 6 228 8.0 37 .286 .714 .428 33.9 48.6 25.7 .126 .256 .189 41.2
2018 Cutter 4.4 7 159 5.6 36 .424 .879 .558 23.8 25.0 20.0 .280 .675 .423 50.0
2018 Splitter -3.3 -2 56 2.0 17 .188 .250 .221 27.3 23.5 15.4 .291 .398 .323 16.7
2018 Sweeper 6.1 0 2 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 Slurve -1.1 0 2 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2017 4-Seamer 0.4 5 1,073 38.8 243 .259 .465 .393 16.2 16.9 13.6 .281 .538 .422 39.2
2017 Sinker 3.3 17 533 19.3 124 .375 .792 .542 13.0 14.5 15.7 .324 .696 .487 49.4
2017 Changeup -1.0 -3 333 12.0 76 .132 .206 .194 23.6 21.1 15.8 .234 .355 .288 28.3
2017 Slider -0.7 -2 298 10.8 67 .119 .203 .204 27.3 34.3 21.1 .157 .237 .231 30.6
2017 Curveball 3.1 8 272 9.8 45 .286 .571 .436 23.6 26.7 12.6 .201 .427 .357 34.8
2017 Cutter -0.3 0 135 4.9 31 .259 .370 .329 23.5 22.6 15.6 .280 .511 .379 35.0
2017 Splitter -1.9 -1 56 2.0 18 .077 .077 .218 36.0 27.8 23.8 .106 .125 .240 11.1
2017 Knuckleball -3.5 -1 24 0.9 6 .167 .667 .333 13.3 0.0 0.0 .266 .632 .367 16.7
2017 Sweeper 0.0 0 1 0.0 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2012 355 1,476 4 -14 11 7 8
2013 791 3,242 -8 6 27 11 35
2014 743 3,250 -13 -4 29 11 23
2015 678 2,855 17 -14 19 13 35
2016 560 2,366 6 -7 19 8 26
2017 613 2,730 -4 -17 27 16 22
2018 657 2,847 4 -17 29 12 28
2019 498 2,201 -14 -27 24 10 -7
2020 181 799 -6 -12 14 7 2
2021 248 1,123 -12 -14 12 6 -8
2022 164 772 4 3 7 4 18
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 2,807 47.2 59.4 83.6 20.6 62.0 43.9 16.2 38.9 21.5 6.3 71.2
2016 2,390 46.6 57.1 88.8 22.3 60.7 44.1 14.8 38.5 19.1 6.2 66.0
2017 2,764 48.7 55.7 84.6 14.2 59.8 45.8 13.2 34.6 19.5 6.8 71.9
2018 2,853 48.3 57.9 83.9 18.6 48.2 43.7 18.7 37.5 24.1 7.0 74.9
2019 2,166 47.9 61.9 80.0 20.9 54.1 44.8 22.4 40.7 25.5 6.3 77.6
2020 736 46.7 61.1 74.2 20.3 43.0 41.4 24.4 39.4 33.1 5.9 60.5
2021 1,123 48.6 63.6 74.9 15.3 52.3 41.7 18.5 38.7 29.7 5.6 79.4
2022 723 53.1 63.2 81.8 16.6 50.0 39.9 19.0 41.4 23.7 9.4 80.9
Player 15,562 48.0 59.0 82.8 18.9 55.8 43.9 17.4 38.2 23.1 6.6 72.8
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.3 42.6 29.5 47.1 24.7 7.2 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		Speed OAA Arm
Strength
2015 96 90 95 92 96 88 83 55 72 55 23 92 49 96 55
2016 98 92 95 93 98 84 87 80 81 78 53 95 69 88 46
2017 92 42 77 80 98 67 65 86 91 59 51 99 72 99 42 13
2018 96 73 96 97 96 96 94 81 70 85 34 94 50 94 40 4
2019 42 5 27 47 56 33 42 25 64 16 19 90 42 91 31 89
2020 54 11 41 57 69 41 63 38 34 34 19 84 14 85 23 83 7
2021 45 25 2
2022 36 22
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 22.0 21 24.7 -4 10 24 8 38.1
2017 23.1 23 22.6 0 15 18 8 34.8
2018 22.4 36 35.9 0 16 32 11 30.6
2019 24.2 15 16.2 -1 8 18 4 26.7
2020 24.0 4 5.2 -1 2 7 0 0.0
2021 25.5 3 5.3 -2 4 7 1 33.3
2022 24.8 15 15.0 0 1 9 8 53.3
Player 23.2 117 124.9 -8 56 115 40 34.2

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 21 29 32 24 20 31 16 26 26 21 32 26 15 19 21 27 27 34 14 23 34 13 18 29 25 27 35 20 18 25 33
2017 23 20 31 19 23 24 23 22 25 20 25 23 17 17 23 24 23 25 11 24 30 20 18 23 23 23 24 20 23 23 31
2018 36 40 45 29 34 38 32 47 33 24 42 40 27 28 33 36 32 41 25 31 37 37 36 36 41 40 42 32 31 36 52
2019 15 15 20 14 16 13 19 21 19 11 18 17 8 13 14 19 13 21 12 16 20 15 12 15 15 19 19 15 20 15 22
2020 4 7 6 4 5 5 0 5 6 5 6 6 2 3 2 7 6 6 2 3 7 5 5 5 6 6 6 3 6 5 9
2021 3 8 6 3 6 8 3 8 3 6 6 9 1 2 1 5 8 9 2 2 5 5 5 9 8 3 8 2 6 4 9
2022 15 14 15 14 16 17 15 16 15 11 17 16 11 15 14 17 18 15 12 14 17 16 16 14 14 15 17 13 14 14 18
Player 117 133 155 107 120 136 108 145 127 98 146 137 81 97 108 135 127 151 78 113 150 111 110 131 132 133 151 105 118 122 174
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-  
Exit Velocity 88.9 90.7 1.8 ↑ 89.7 -1 ↓ 90.7 1 ↑ 88 -2.7 ↓ 88.1 0.1 ↑ 90 1.9 ↑ 89.8 -0.2 ↓
Launch Angle 16.9 18.2 1.3 ↑ 22.6 4.4 ↑ 21.6 -1 ↓ 19 -2.6 ↓ 17.1 -1.9 ↓ 21.1 4 ↑ 22.4 1.3 ↑
Barrel % 9.1 11.3 2.2 ↑ 8.2 -3.1 ↓ 13.7 5.5 ↑ 7.2 -6.5 ↓ 9.8 2.6 ↑ 11.5 1.7 ↑ 13.7 2.2 ↑
Hard Hit % 35.8 41.9 6.1 ↑ 37.2 -4.7 ↓ 44.7 7.5 ↑ 31.1 -13.6 ↓ 36.3 5.2 ↑ 42 5.7 ↑ 42.1 0.1 ↑
Sweet Spot % 42.4 43 0.6 ↑ 37.7 -5.3 ↓ 44.1 6.4 ↑ 36.2 -7.9 ↓ 44.6 8.4 ↑ 45 0.4 ↑ 41.1 -3.9 ↓
xBA .285 .287 0.002 ↑ .255 -0.032 ↓ .267 0.012 ↑ .219 -0.048 ↓ .212 -0.007 ↓ .225 0.013 ↑ .231 0.006 ↑
BA .272 .271 -0.001 ↓ .241 -0.03 ↓ .257 0.016 ↑ .226 -0.031 ↓ .186 -0.04 ↓ .169 -0.017 ↓ .305 0.136 ↑
xwOBA .391 .398 0.007 ↑ .381 -0.017 ↓ .391 0.01 ↑ .323 -0.068 ↓ .332 0.009 ↑ .341 0.009 ↑ .362 0.021 ↑
wOBA .372 .375 0.003 ↑ .361 -0.014 ↓ .375 0.014 ↑ .315 -0.06 ↓ .293 -0.022 ↓ .269 -0.024 ↓ .472 0.203 ↑
xSLG .526 .543 0.017 ↑ .483 -0.06 ↓ .542 0.059 ↑ .406 -0.136 ↓ .403 -0.003 ↓ .427 0.024 ↑ .485 0.058 ↑
SLG .505 .505 0 .451 -0.054 ↓ .523 0.072 ↑ .392 -0.131 ↓ .314 -0.078 ↓ .275 -0.039 ↓ .727 0.452 ↑
K% 22.7 19.1 -3.6 ↓ 20.1 1 ↑ 23.4 3.3 ↑ 26.2 2.8 ↑ 28.4 2.2 ↑ 30.9 2.5 ↑ 22.7 -8.2 ↓
BB% 12.2 14.3 2.1 ↑ 17.5 3.2 ↑ 15.1 -2.4 ↓ 12.8 -2.3 ↓ 13.6 0.8 ↑ 14.1 0.5 ↑ 12.3 -1.8 ↓
Swing % 38.9 38.5 -0.4 ↓ 34.6 -3.9 ↓ 37.5 2.9 ↑ 40.7 3.2 ↑ 39.4 -1.3 ↓ 38.7 -0.7 ↓ 41.4 2.7 ↑
Whiff% 21.5 19.1 -2.4 ↓ 19.5 0.4 ↑ 24.1 4.6 ↑ 25.5 1.4 ↑ 33.1 7.6 ↑ 29.7 -3.4 ↓ 23.7 -6 ↓
In Zone % 47.2 46.6 -0.6 ↓ 48.7 2.1 ↑ 48.3 -0.4 ↓ 47.9 -0.4 ↓ 46.7 -1.2 ↓ 48.6 1.9 ↑ 53.1 4.5 ↑
Out of Zone % 52.8 53.4 0.6 ↑ 51.3 -2.1 ↓ 51.7 0.4 ↑ 52.1 0.4 ↑ 53.3 1.2 ↑ 51.4 -1.9 ↓ 46.9 -4.5 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 20.6 22.3 1.7 ↑ 14.2 -8.1 ↓ 18.6 4.4 ↑ 20.9 2.3 ↑ 20.3 -0.6 ↓ 15.3 -5 ↓ 16.6 1.3 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 16.2 14.8 -1.4 ↓ 13.2 -1.6 ↓ 18.7 5.5 ↑ 22.4 3.7 ↑ 24.4 2 ↑ 18.5 -5.9 ↓ 19 0.5 ↑
First Pitch Strike %