MLB / Players

Chris Carpenter

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 230 lb

BornApril 27, 1975 · Exeter, NH, USA

MLB debutMay 12, 1997

Final gameOctober 2, 2012

Seasons15 (1997–2012)

Toronto Blue Jays 1997–2002; St. Louis Cardinals 2004–2012

Percentile snapshot

2011 season — qualified pitchers

88.2

92.5

34.4

64.5

SHO

88.2

243

2.2

24.7

58.1

191

76.3

69.9

237.3

95.7

ERA

3.45

66.7

WHIP

1.256

52.7

K/9

7.24

FIP

3.03

87.1

FIP-

81.2

83.9

ERA+

108.2

53.8

sWAR

3.2

67.7

of 94 qualified 2011 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.4

83.5

sWAR

35.7

97.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1997	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1998	33	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.5	-100.0	.000	2.2
1999	24	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	112.6	43.3	.369	2.3
2000	34	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.3	-100.0	.000	-0.5
2001	34	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-23.8	-11.9	.149	3.2
2002	13	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	470.4	430.0	.894	0.2
2004	28	67	62	1	5	0	0	1	1	21	0	.081	.095	.081	.176	-71.2	-53.2	.083	3.0
2005	33	93	77	7	5	2	0	2	5	23	1	.065	.120	.091	.211	-57.0	-42.8	.108	5.7
2006	32	80	71	2	9	0	0	2	0	27	0	.127	.127	.127	.254	-49.6	-33.9	.114	5.2
2007	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.0	-100.0	.000	-0.2
2008	4	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.5	-100.0	.000	0.5
2009	28	69	63	3	11	3	1	7	2	13	0	.175	.212	.270	.482	20.0	28.1	.219	6.2
2010	35	84	72	2	8	0	1	4	1	25	0	.111	.135	.153	.288	-34.2	-21.1	.133	4.1
2011	34	82	71	2	11	3	0	5	2	25	0	.155	.178	.197	.375	-7.7	4.6	.173	3.2
2012	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-22.6	-7.4	.150	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1997	14	13	3	7	1	1	108	46	37	55	7	81.3	5.09	1.783	6.09	4.35	95.5	89.5	0.3
1998	33	24	12	7	1	1	177	85	61	136	18	175.0	4.37	1.360	6.99	4.14	89.2	106.0	2.2
1999	24	24	9	8	4	1	177	73	48	106	16	150.0	4.38	1.500	6.36	4.20	85.6	112.0	2.3
2000	34	27	10	12	2	0	204	122	83	113	30	175.3	6.26	1.637	5.80	5.66	112.9	80.1	-0.5
2001	34	34	11	11	3	2	229	98	75	157	29	215.7	4.09	1.410	6.55	4.66	102.4	111.1	3.2
2002	13	13	4	5	1	0	89	43	27	45	11	73.3	5.28	1.582	5.52	5.05	110.2	86.8	0.2
2004	28	28	15	5	1	0	169	70	38	152	24	182.0	3.46	1.137	7.52	3.76	88.7	122.4	3.0
2005	33	33	21	5	7	4	204	76	51	213	18	241.7	2.83	1.055	7.93	2.87	68.8	147.4	5.7
2006	32	32	15	8	5	3	194	76	43	184	21	221.7	3.09	1.069	7.47	3.40	76.7	143.6	5.2
2007	1	1	0	1	0	0	9	5	1	3	0	6.0	7.50	1.667	4.50	3.18	73.3	57.8	-0.2
2008	4	3	0	1	0	0	16	3	4	7	0	15.3	1.76	1.304	4.11	2.97	70.9	238.1	0.5
2009	28	28	17	4	3	1	156	48	38	144	7	192.7	2.24	1.007	6.73	2.73	66.8	182.6	6.2
2010	35	35	16	9	1	0	214	84	63	179	21	235.0	3.22	1.179	6.86	3.71	95.1	121.5	4.1
2011	34	34	11	9	4	2	243	91	55	191	16	237.3	3.45	1.256	7.24	3.03	81.2	108.2	3.2
2012	3	3	0	2	0	0	16	7	3	12	2	17.0	3.71	1.118	6.35	4.14	107.6	103.7	0.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

350

501

439

RBI

144

.1185

OBP

.1454

SLG

.1503

OPS

.2957

Pitching

G (P)

350

332

250th-most career GS

144

288th-most career W

SHO

396th-most career SHO

2,219

342nd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,697

162nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

627

499th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.759

WHIP

1.2761

451st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.88

225th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2009-10-01	STL @ CIN Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	6	6
2010-09-10	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	5
2005-09-28	HOU @ STL Gameday	2	2	2	2	0	0	4
2012-10-10	STL @ WSH Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3
2004-06-24	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2006-06-13	STL @ PIT Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	3	13	0
2001-09-04	NYY @ TOR Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	12	0
2005-04-27	MIL @ STL Gameday	7.2	8	3	3	0	12	1
2005-06-25	PIT @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	11	0
2011-09-28	STL @ HOU Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	11	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Cy Young Award3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.