Cris Carpenter
St. Louis Cardinals 1988–1992; Florida Marlins 1993; Texas Rangers 1993–1994; Milwaukee Brewers 1996
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -33.6 | -17.4 | .133 | -0.3 |
| 1989 | 36 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .444 | .444 | .444 | .889 | 162.3 | 152.8 | .413 | 1.2 |
| 1990 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 59 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 87.7 | 88.5 | .308 | 0.3 |
| 1992 | 73 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 91.6 | 92.4 | .310 | 1.4 |
| 1993 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 25 | 9 | 24 | 3 | 47.7 | 4.72 | 1.364 | 4.53 | 3.15 | 91.0 | 73.3 | -0.3 |
| 1989 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 24 | 26 | 35 | 4 | 68.0 | 3.18 | 1.412 | 4.63 | 3.63 | 101.2 | 113.0 | 1.2 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 8.0 | 4.50 | .875 | 6.75 | 5.31 | 139.9 | 84.4 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 59 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 31 | 20 | 47 | 6 | 66.0 | 4.23 | 1.106 | 6.41 | 3.46 | 93.5 | 87.5 | 0.3 |
| 1992 | 73 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 29 | 27 | 46 | 10 | 88.0 | 2.97 | 1.091 | 4.70 | 4.26 | 124.5 | 115.4 | 1.4 |
| 1993 | 56 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 27 | 25 | 53 | 5 | 69.3 | 3.50 | 1.284 | 6.88 | 3.65 | 87.1 | 119.6 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 47 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 33 | 20 | 39 | 7 | 59.0 | 5.03 | 1.508 | 5.95 | 4.43 | 93.2 | 94.5 | 0.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8.3 | 7.56 | 1.680 | 2.16 | 5.05 | 98.4 | 67.9 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-04-18 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1992-05-23 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1988-06-10 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1989-09-17 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1991-05-26 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-05-19 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989-09-17 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 7.1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990-04-17 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1988-05-24 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994-07-01 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 4.1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
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.