I am not sure that there has ever been a player on the St. Louis Cardinals who had so many people begging the Cardinals to trade/cut him that changed their minds so fast. Matt Carpenter had even me really hoping the Cardinals would get rid of him after the first month of the season. How mad we would have been…
In myself and other fans’ defense, the anger with Carpenter was understandable given his .155 batting average and .579 OPS at the end of March. If memory serves me correctly, there was a time where both Matt Carpenter and Dexter Fowler were the two worst hitters in the National League.