Matt Carpenter (baseball)
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Carpenter with the St. Louis Cardinals
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Born: November 26, 1985 Galveston, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
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| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .284 | ||
| Hits | 733 | ||
| Home runs | 74 | ||
| Runs batted in | 335 | ||
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Matthew Martin Lee Carpenter (born November 26, 1985) is an American professional baseball third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Cardinals selected him in the 13th round of the 2009 MLB draft from Texas Christian University (TCU). The team called him up to the majors for the first time on June 3, 2011, and he made his MLB debut the following night at Busch Stadium. He has been their primary leadoff hitter since early in the 2013 season.
Carpenter has also played second base and first base. A three-time second-team All Mountain West Conference selectee, he broke TCU's school record for games played and at bats and is second in hits, doubles and walks. He was the Cardinals' organization Player of the Year in 2010. A three-time MLB All-Star Game selection, he became the first Silver Slugger Award winner at second base in Cardinals franchise history after leading the major leagues in hits, runs scored and doubles in 2013. He is signed through 2019 with an option for 2020.
Carpenter was born in Galveston, Texas on November 26, 1985, the son to Rick and Tammie Carpenter. The elder Carpenter is a former college baseball player turned high school coach. His mother played softball in her youth. The Carpenter family spent seven years in La Marque, Texas, where Rick Carpenter taught and coached at La Marque High School before moving to Lawrence E. Elkins High School. There, Rick coached for another fifteen years. That baseball team won numerous championships, including nine at the district level, six regional, three state, and one national. He also coached three other major leaguers: James Loney, Kip Wells and Chad Huffman. The elder Carpenter now coaches at Prosper High School near Dallas. Carpenter's brother, Tyler, was a minor league baseball player in the New York Mets organization.
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