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Chris Carpenter

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #29

Born: April 27, 1975 in Exeter, NH, United States
MLB debut: May 12, 1997

dbWAR: 26.2
IP: 17.0
ERA: 3.71
FIP: 4.09
K/9: 6.4
FIP−: 102

Chris Carpenter was a starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2012 he struck out 12 batters over 17.0 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 0-2. His ERA of 3.71 was 7.7% lower than the league average of 4.01. Stripping out defence, his 4.09 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 16.9% of swings (7.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.7%. His 0.2 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2012 regular season.

FIP4.09

K/96.4

WHIP1.12

WAR.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2012; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	STL	3	3	17.0	0	2	16	7	12	3	3.71	4.09	1.12	6.4	1.6	92	102	0.2
2011	STL	34	34	237.1	11	9	243	91	191	55	3.45	3.06	1.26	7.2	2.1	88	78	5.0
2010	STL	35	35	235.0	16	9	214	84	179	63	3.22	3.69	1.18	6.9	2.4	79	90	3.7
2009	STL	28	28	192.2	17	4	156	48	144	38	2.24	2.78	1.01	6.7	1.8	52	64	5.5
2008	STL	4	3	15.1	0	1	16	3	7	4	1.76	3.00	1.30	4.1	2.3	41	69	0.4
2007	STL	1	1	6.0	0	1	9	5	3	1	7.50	3.24	1.67	4.5	1.5	168	72	0.1
2006	STL	32	32	221.2	15	8	194	76	184	43	3.09	3.44	1.07	7.5	1.7	68	76	5.2
2005	STL	33	33	241.2	21	5	204	76	213	51	2.83	2.90	1.06	7.9	1.9	66	67	6.7

Batting Regular season


2012	STL	3	6	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.000	.250	0.0%	33.3%	.148	-0.8	-18	-0.0
2011	STL	32	82	11	0	5	2	25	.155	.178	.197	.042	.239	2.4%	30.5%	.170	-9.5	-3	0.1
2010	STL	34	84	8	1	4	1	25	.111	.135	.153	.042	.152	1.2%	29.8%	.133	-12.8	-33	-0.2
2009	STL	26	69	11	1	7	2	13	.175	.212	.270	.095	.204	2.9%	18.8%	.218	-6.4	23	0.3
2008	STL	3	5	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.4	-130	-0.1
2007	STL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-130	-0.0
2006	STL	30	80	9	0	2	0	27	.127	.127	.127	.000	.205	0.0%	33.8%	.114	-15.0	-50	-0.3
2005	STL	32	93	5	0	2	5	23	.065	.120	.091	.026	.091	5.4%	24.7%	.106	-17.1	-53	-0.5

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Chris Carpenter's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	3	3	13.2	1	2	19	4	1	6	9	2.63	1.83	5.9
		NLDS	1	1	5.2	1	0	7	0	0	2	2	0.00	1.59	3.2
		NLCS	2	2	8.0	0	2	12	4	1	4	7	4.50	2.00	7.9
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	6	6	36.0	4	0	31	13	4	11	21	3.25	1.17	5.3
		NLDS	2	2	12.0	1	0	8	4	0	3	5	3.00	0.92	3.8
		NLCS	1	1	5.0	1	0	6	3	1	3	3	5.40	1.80	5.4
		World Series	3	3	19.0	2	0	17	6	3	5	13	2.84	1.16	6.2
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	1	1	5.0	0	1	9	4	1	4	3	7.20	2.60	5.4
2006 Post	STL	Postseason total	5	5	32.1	3	1	28	10	3	8	23	2.78	1.11	6.4
		NLDS	2	2	13.1	2	0	12	3	0	4	12	2.02	1.20	8.1
		NLCS	2	2	11.0	0	1	13	7	3	4	5	5.73	1.55	4.1
		World Series	1	1	8.0	1	0	3	0	0	0	6	0.00	0.38	6.8
2005 Post	STL	Postseason total	3	3	21.0	2	0	17	5	2	7	12	2.14	1.14	5.1
		NLDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	3	0	0	3	3	0.00	1.00	4.5
		NLCS	2	2	15.0	1	0	14	5	2	4	9	3.00	1.20	5.4
2005–2012		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	18	18	108.0	10	4	104	36	11	36	68	3.00	1.30	5.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Chris Carpenter's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	2B	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	3	5	5	3	2	1	2	.600	.600	1.000	1.600
		NLDS	1	3	3	2	1	0	1	.667	.667	1.000	1.667
		NLCS	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	5	11	11	2	0	0	3	.182	.182	.182	.364
		NLDS	2	4	4	1	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
		NLCS	1	2	2	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000
		World Series	2	5	5	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	1	3	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2006 Post	STL	Postseason total	5	14	12	1	0	0	3	.083	.083	.083	.167
		NLDS	2	6	5	1	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400
		NLCS	2	4	4	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	1	4	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005 Post	STL	Postseason total	3	9	7	0	0	1	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	3	3	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	6	4	0	0	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2012		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	17	42	37	6	2	2	12	.162	.162	.216	.378

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	30	26	10	0	3	4	.385	.467	.538	.441	13.3%
vs RHB	42	40	6	2	0	8	.150	.171	.350	.226	19.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Carpenter throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	32.0%	83	90.7	2,053	42.2%	6.3%	19	.316	.960
Cutter	25.1%	65	86.2	1,047	52.3%	28.9%	19	.158	.568
Sinker	22.8%	59	90.2	1,925	44.1%	11.1%	16	.250	.646
Curveball	14.3%	37	73.5	1,714	37.8%	7.7%	9	—	—
Changeup	5.8%	15	84.3	1,455	40.0%	37.5%	3	—	—

Chris Carpenter's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.