MLB / Players

Matt Carpenter

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 210 lb

BornNovember 26, 1985 · Sugar Land, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 4, 2011

Final gameSeptember 29, 2024

Seasons14 (2011–2024)

St. Louis Cardinals 2011–2021; New York Yankees 2022; San Diego Padres 2023; St. Louis Cardinals 2024

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified batters

156

676

84.2

564

66.9

111

96.4

145

56.1

90.6

91.4

RBI

66.2

102

96.4

158

10.8

33.8

68.3

.257

43.9

OBP

.374

87.1

SLG

.523

88.5

OPS

.897

92.1

wRC+

141.5

94.2

OPS+

144.0

wOBA

.382

89.9

sWAR

4.9

88.5

of 140 qualified 2018 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

125.4

86.2

OPS+

122.7

sWAR

34.6

97.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2011	7	19	15	0	1	1	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	.067	.263	.133	.396	28.1	15.0	.223	-0.1
2012	114	340	296	44	87	22	5	6	46	34	63	1	1	.294	.365	.463	.828	127.7	126.7	.362	1.9
2013	157	717	626	126	199	55	7	11	78	72	98	3	3	.318	.392	.481	.873	149.1	142.3	.389	7.0
2014	158	709	595	99	162	33	2	8	59	95	111	5	3	.272	.375	.375	.750	120.1	113.1	.346	4.4
2015	154	665	574	101	156	44	3	28	84	81	151	4	3	.272	.365	.505	.871	140.4	137.0	.379	5.7
2016	129	566	473	81	128	36	6	21	68	81	108	0	4	.271	.380	.505	.885	139.4	137.7	.383	4.3
2017	145	622	497	91	120	31	2	23	69	109	125	2	1	.241	.384	.451	.835	126.4	121.7	.368	3.1
2018	156	676	564	111	145	42	0	36	81	102	158	4	1	.257	.374	.523	.897	141.5	144.0	.382	4.9
2019	129	492	416	59	94	20	2	15	46	63	129	6	1	.226	.334	.392	.726	94.5	91.1	.319	1.4
2020	50	169	140	22	26	6	0	4	24	23	48	0	0	.186	.325	.314	.640	84.6	78.2	.296	0.1
2021	130	249	207	18	35	11	1	3	21	35	77	2	0	.169	.305	.275	.581	68.9	62.4	.274	-0.1
2022	47	154	128	28	39	9	0	15	37	19	35	0	0	.305	.412	.727	1.138	216.7	219.2	.471	2.4
2023	76	236	188	18	33	12	0	5	31	41	67	1	0	.176	.322	.319	.641	87.3	81.0	.297	-0.3
2024	59	156	137	15	32	7	0	4	15	15	51	0	2	.234	.314	.372	.686	93.1	91.8	.305	-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
2021	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.3	0.00	1.500	0.00	5.38	133.4	—	-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

1,511

5,770

4,856

813

1,257

329

378th-most career 2B

179

470th-most career HR

RBI

659

774

295th-most career BB

1,225

220th-most career SO

.2589

OBP

.3656

364th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4487

497th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8143

397th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

0.00

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
2018-07-20	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	4	5	2	0	3	7	0	16
2018-06-26	CLE @ STL Gameday	5	5	5	1	0	2	3	0	12
2015-07-30	COL @ STL Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	4	0	11
2016-06-26	STL @ SEA Gameday	6	3	3	0	1	2	2	0	11
2022-06-12	CHC @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	7	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2021-05-15	STL @ SD Gameday	1.1	2	0	0	0	0	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× Silver Slugger3× 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.