Matt Carpenter is struggling through the worst season of his career. Fresh off signing a contract extension, it looks possible that this is the end of the line for the 33-year-old. That’s the bad news.
What baffles me are all the people - in the comments here and on Twitter - who seem to want to revise the history of the last decade and argue that Matt Carpenter was overrated, or never that good at all. For me, Matt Carpenter was clearly the most productive hitter of the last decade, and that makes him a slam-dunk, first ballot Cardinal Hall of Famer.