Matt Carpenter
DH | Bats/Throws: L/R | 6' 4" 224LBS | Age: 38
Draft: 2009 | Rd: 13, #399, St. Louis Cardinals | Texas Christian
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 154 128 28 39 15 0 .305 .412 .727 1.139
2023 237 188 18 33 5 1 .176 .322 .319 .641
2024 157 137 15 32 4 0 .234 .314 .372 .686
14 Seasons 5,773 4,856 813 1,257 179 28 .259 .366 .449 .815
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .305 15 0 1.139
2023 .176 5 1 .641
2024 .234 4 0 .686
14 Seasons .259 179 28 .815
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart
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Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 LA 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 .282 .523 .372 .389 .472 35.8 22.7 12.2
2016 30 2390 372 42 11.3 7.4 90.7 111.1 18.2 43.0 .284 .540 .375 .397 .450 41.9 19.1 14.3
2017 31 2764 379 31 8.2 5.0 89.7 113.0 22.6 37.7 .253 .480 .361 .379 .409 37.2 20.1 17.5
2018 32 2853 410 56 13.7 8.3 90.7 109.4 21.6 44.1 .265 .540 .375 .389 .473 44.7 23.4 15.1
2019 33 2166 293 21 7.2 4.3 88.0 108.9 19.0 36.2 .216 .403 .315 .321 .374 31.1 26.2 12.8
2020 34 736 92 9 9.8 5.3 88.1 106.2 17.1 44.6 .209 .400 .293 .330 .388 36.3 28.4 13.6
2021 35 1123 131 15 11.5 6.0 90.0 106.9 21.1 45.0 .223 .425 .269 .340 .431 42.0 30.9 14.1
2022 36 723 95 13 13.7 8.4 89.8 107.7 22.4 41.1 .230 .484 .472 .360 .413 42.1 22.7 12.3
2023 37 1014 126 14 11.1 5.9 87.0 107.6 24.4 35.7 .173 .334 .293 .309 .341 31.0 28.3 17.3
2024 38 669 88 6 6.8 3.8 85.8 106.5 24.2 46.6 .211 .350 .303 .287 .377 28.7 32.5 9.6
Player 17245 2413 246 10.2 6.2 89.3 113.0 20.2 41.3 .249 .476 .351 .364 .429 38.0 23.8 14.3
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.5 22.2 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
2023 27.8 40.5 19.0 12.7 51.6 28.6 19.8 7.9 14.3 43.7 17.5 4.8 11.1 5.9
2024 28.4 35.2 27.3 9.1 40.9 36.4 22.7 5.7 17.0 35.2 25.0 8.0 6.8 3.8
Player 30.9 35.8 28.3 5.0 45.5 33.2 21.3 3.7 18.6 31.3 25.2 8.7 10.2 6.2
MLB 44.4 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.5 25.2 3.9 32.6 24.8 24.4 5.9 7.0 4.8
! 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 %
2024 4-Seam Fastball -0.3 -1 213 31.8 55 .245 .449 .343 21.8 29.1 25.0 .219 .440 .311 35.3
2024 Curveball -0.1 0 103 15.4 13 .182 .182 .192 42.9 61.5 25.8 .128 .135 .155 0.0
2024 Sinker 1.0 1 99 14.8 31 .360 .440 .419 9.5 19.4 21.4 .364 .500 .436 31.6
2024 Cutter 1.3 1 68 10.2 16 .286 .500 .381 33.3 18.8 18.8 .188 .364 .293 18.2
2024 Slider -1.8 -1 68 10.2 8 .000 .000 .088 52.0 62.5 27.8 .090 .098 .158 0.0
2024 Split-Finger -3.0 -1 40 6.0 12 .100 .100 .192 33.3 33.3 19.0 .232 .308 .312 16.7
2024 Changeup 3.4 1 38 5.7 12 .273 .545 .371 33.3 41.7 31.3 .099 .166 .161 50.0
2024 Sweeper -4.8 -2 37 5.5 8 .000 .000 .000 54.5 50.0 26.7 .026 .081 .045 25.0
2024 Knuckleball 2.3 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2023 4-Seam Fastball -0.5 -2 333 32.8 79 .208 .509 .403 24.0 13.9 11.6 .222 .539 .442 40.0
2023 Slider -2.1 -3 136 13.4 31 .115 .154 .189 42.1 41.9 24.1 .078 .096 .157 7.1
2023 Sinker 1.6 2 131 12.9 29 .273 .455 .436 22.0 17.2 17.2 .317 .652 .476 58.8
2023 Cutter -1.4 -2 122 12.0 28 .136 .227 .246 16.9 21.4 18.2 .092 .171 .234 23.5
2023 Curveball -1.6 -2 117 11.5 19 .063 .063 .158 36.8 47.4 26.5 .064 .075 .162 14.3
2023 Changeup 0.9 1 107 10.6 31 .267 .400 .310 30.0 35.5 26.8 .238 .340 .262 21.1
2023 Sweeper -4.7 -2 37 3.6 9 .000 .000 .000 36.4 77.8 38.9 .010 .016 .011 0.0
2023 Split-Finger -10.5 -3 25 2.5 10 .100 .100 .090 43.8 50.0 45.5 .146 .209 .151 20.0
2023 Slurve 1.2 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

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 25
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 -6
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
2023 237 1,014 -13 -8 7 4 -9
2024 156 668 -3 -6 6 2 -1
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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 19.3 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 24.2 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
2023 1,014 49.1 60.4 81.1 21.1 43.1 43.9 20.3 40.4 28.3 7.7 79.5
2024 669 52.7 62.2 80.4 20.3 37.5 44.2 22.3 42.5 28.9 7.0 66.0
Player 17,245 48.3 59.3 82.6 19.0 54.3 43.9 17.8 38.5 23.8 6.7 73.0
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 29.9 47.2 25.0 7.3 76.3
! 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 		Bat
Speed 		Squared-up
Rate 		Swing
Length
2015 95 88 95 92 96 88 83 55 72 55 23 92 49 96 53
2016 97 90 94 93 98 84 87 80 81 78 53 95 69 88 45 40
2017 92 38 75 80 98 67 65 86 91 59 51 99 73 99 42 14
2018 96 71 96 97 96 96 94 81 70 85 34 94 50 94 40 4
2019 39 4 27 46 53 33 42 25 64 16 19 90 43 91 31 89
2020 53 9 40 57 66 41 63 38 34 34 19 84 14 85 24 83 5
2021 45 25 2
2022 36 21
2023 32 9
2024 23 4
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Expected Home Runs

Adjusted
Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 22.0 21 24.8 -4 11 25 7 33.3
2017 23.1 23 23.3 0 19 19 7 30.4
2018 22.4 36 33.6 2 23 29 10 27.8
2019 24.2 15 16.1 -1 8 17 5 33.3
2020 24.0 4 5.0 -1 1 7 0 0.0
2021 25.5 3 5.1 -2 4 7 1 33.3
2022 24.8 15 14.9 0 2 8 8 53.3
2023 24.4 5 4.6 0 5 5 1 20.0
2024 23.2 4 4.7 -1 2 4 2 50.0
Player 23.2 126 132.0 -6 75 121 41 32.5
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 21 26 23 31 26 16 27 27 19 14 21 31 28 25 21 30 12 19 29 28 27 17 34 34 26 19 26 35 34 27 12
2017 23 23 19 26 26 22 26 21 18 19 23 30 20 22 24 25 19 20 25 25 24 24 32 25 22 22 23 34 24 25 10
2018 36 46 21 40 30 30 38 39 25 24 28 40 36 28 32 38 36 35 33 42 37 30 48 39 32 30 29 32 38 30 21
2019 15 20 15 18 18 18 21 16 12 8 15 19 16 14 17 13 14 13 13 18 14 19 23 18 16 15 12 21 19 17 10
2020 4 5 5 6 5 6 7 5 2 2 2 6 7 5 5 4 6 5 5 6 6 6 8 5 5 3 6 6 7 3 2
2021 3 8 6 5 4 3 5 7 2 1 1 6 8 3 4 7 4 5 8 4 8 6 9 8 4 2 8 5 8 2 2
2022 15 16 11 17 15 15 16 16 15 13 14 15 14 14 16 17 16 16 14 15 14 14 17 17 14 13 18 16 14 14 11
2023 5 5 2 5 6 5 5 6 5 2 2 5 3 5 7 5 7 6 4 6 5 3 9 6 3 2 4 2 5 4 3
2024 4 6 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 5 5 5 4 5 5 6 4 5 5 5 3 7 6 4 3 4 6 4 4 4
Player 126 155 104 153 135 120 150 142 103 86 111 157 137 120 131 144 120 123 136 149 140 122 187 158 126 109 130 157 153 126 75
Note: xHR tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
Exit Velocity 88.9 90.7 1.8 ↑ 89.7 -1.0 ↓ 90.7 1.0 ↑ 88.0 -2.7 ↓ 88.1 0.1 ↑ 90.0 1.9 ↑ 89.8 -0.2 ↓ 87.0 -2.8 ↓ 85.8 -1.2 ↓
Launch Angle 16.9 18.2 1.3 ↑ 22.6 4.4 ↑ 21.6 -1.0 ↓ 19.0 -2.6 ↓ 17.1 -1.9 ↓ 21.1 4.0 ↑ 22.4 1.3 ↑ 24.4 2.0 ↑ 24.2 -0.2 ↓
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 ↑ 11.1 -2.6 ↓ 6.8 -4.3 ↓
Hard Hit % 35.8 41.9 6.1 ↑ 37.2 -4.7 ↓ 44.7 7.5 ↑ 31.1 -13.6 ↓ 36.3 5.2 ↑ 42.0 5.7 ↑ 42.1 0.1 ↑ 31.0 -11.1 ↓ 28.7 -2.3 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 42.4 43.0 0.6 ↑ 37.7 -5.3 ↓ 44.1 6.4 ↑ 36.2 -7.9 ↓ 44.6 8.4 ↑ 45.0 0.4 ↑ 41.1 -3.9 ↓ 35.7 -5.4 ↓ 46.6 10.9 ↑
xBA .282 .284 0.002 ↑ .253 -0.031 ↓ .265 0.012 ↑ .216 -0.049 ↓ .209 -0.007 ↓ .223 0.014 ↑ .230 0.007 ↑ .173 -0.057 ↓ .211 0.038 ↑
BA .272 .271 -0.001 ↓ .241 -0.030 ↓ .257 0.016 ↑ .226 -0.031 ↓ .186 -0.040 ↓ .169 -0.017 ↓ .305 0.136 ↑ .176 -0.129 ↓ .234 0.058 ↑
xwOBA .389 .397 0.008 ↑ .379 -0.018 ↓ .389 0.010 ↑ .321 -0.068 ↓ .330 0.009 ↑ .340 0.010 ↑ .360 0.020 ↑ .309 -0.051 ↓ .287 -0.022 ↓
wOBA .372 .375 0.003 ↑ .361 -0.014 ↓ .375 0.014 ↑ .315 -0.060 ↓ .293 -0.022 ↓ .269 -0.024 ↓ .472 0.203 ↑ .293 -0.179 ↓ .303 0.010 ↑
xSLG .523 .540 0.017 ↑ .480 -0.060 ↓ .540 0.060 ↑ .403 -0.137 ↓ .400 -0.003 ↓ .425 0.025 ↑ .484 0.059 ↑ .334 -0.150 ↓ .350 0.016 ↑
SLG .505 .505 0.000 .451 -0.054 ↓ .523 0.072 ↑ .392 -0.131 ↓ .314 -0.078 ↓ .275 -0.039 ↓ .727 0.452 ↑ .319 -0.408 ↓ .372 0.053 ↑
K% 22.7 19.1 -3.6 ↓ 20.1 1.0 ↑ 23.4 3.3 ↑ 26.2 2.8 ↑ 28.4 2.2 ↑ 30.9 2.5 ↑ 22.7 -8.2 ↓ 28.3 5.6 ↑ 32.5 4.2 ↑
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 ↓ 17.3 5.0 ↑ 9.6 -7.7 ↓
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 ↑ 40.4 -1.0 ↓ 42.5 2.1 ↑
Whiff% 21.5 19.3 -2.2 ↓ 19.5 0.2 ↑ 24.2 4.7 ↑ 25.5 1.3 ↑ 33.1 7.6 ↑ 29.7 -3.4 ↓ 23.7 -6.0 ↓ 28.3 4.6 ↑ 28.9 0.6 ↑
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 ↑ 49.1 -4.0 ↓ 52.7 3.6 ↑
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 ↓ 50.9 4.0 ↑ 47.3 -3.6 ↓
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 -5.0 ↓ 16.6 1.3 ↑ 21.1 4.5 ↑ 20.3 -0.8 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 16.2 14.8 -1.4 ↓ 13.2 -1.6 ↓ 18.7 5.5 ↑ 22.4 3.7 ↑ 24.4 2.0 ↑ 18.5 -5.9 ↓ 19.0 0.5 ↑ 20.3 1.3 ↑ 22.3 2.0 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 61.1 55.8 -5.3 ↓ 56.4 0.6 ↑ 53.6 -2.8 ↓ 54.7 1.1 ↑ 60.1 5.4 ↑ 51.4 -8.7 ↓ 50.3 -1.1 ↓ 59.9 9.6 ↑ 54.1 -5.8 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 550 186 33.8 .367 .392
2017 Shifts L 610 369 60.5 .321 .392
2018 Shifts L 659 549 83.3 .412 .368
2019 Shifts L 471 417 88.5 .294 .315
2020 Shifts L 168 163 97.0 .177 .296
2021 Shifts L 244 223 91.4 .444 .254
2022 Shifts L 152 136 89.5 .534 .468
2023 Shades L 232 129 55.6 .230 .338
2024 Shades L 155 89 57.4 .179 .400
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2011 36 16.9 25.0% 2.8% 17 23.8 0.0% 5.9%
2012 382 17.1 26.4% 2.1% 300 23.7 0.3% 10.0%
2013 1222 17.3 22.7% 1.8% 419 25.3 0.2% 21.5%
2014 1318 18.2 19.7% 1.4% 485 27.8 0.0% 30.7%
2015 1064 19.5 16.4% 7.0% 403 28.1 3.0% 39.0%
2016 940 19.1 17.0% 4.7% 339 27.5 2.4% 34.5%
2017 1071 19.5 9.5% 2.0% 482 27.6 0.0% 30.1%
2018 1114 19.1 9.3% 2.2% 446 26.9 0.0% 27.8%
2019 810 19.4 9.0% 2.7% 291 26.9 0.0% 26.8%
2020 198 20.9 10.1% 3.5% 169 26.8 0.0% 29.0%
2021 381 20.3 12.9% 2.4% 206 28.0 0.0% 32.5%
2022 204 20.4 7.8% 4.9% 160 24.8 0.0% 17.5%
2023 323 15.5 42.4% 0.6% 180 19.8 3.9% 1.1%
2024 196 15.7 36.7% 0.5% 131 18.8 0.8% 0.8%
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