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By the end of the 2021 season, Matt Carpenter had seen better days in the big leagues and it looked like his ride was all but over. Carpenter finished up the season with the Redbirds and was hitting a paltry .169 with three homers in 207 trips to the plate. Whatever magic he had in St. Louis back in his heyday was gone and Carpenter was given his walking papers.
2022 didn’t start out any better as Carpenter ended up getting picked up by the Texas Rangers organization and found himself in unfamiliar territory -playing at the AAA level and nowhere to move up to on the Rangers depth chart. At any rate, Carpenter no doubt stood at the precipice and looked into the void that seemed to be the end of a pretty good MLB career. The Rangers and Carpenter came to mutual terms in May and the 36-year-old walked away from baseball with no idea what was going to happen next.
As Al Michaels asked us once, “do you believe in miracles?” Well, in the case of Matt Carpenter the answer is a resounding yes or at least where has this guy been? Of all the ballclubs out there, there was only one knocking at Matt Carpenter’s door and that knock couldn’t have been more fortuitous for both player and team as the New York Yankees sought Carpenter out. Whatever the case might be and their rationale for signing Carpenter, the Yankees have found a sort of folk hero in Matt Carpenter. You see, Carpenter has found himself again and part of the offensive firepower that keeps the Bronx Bombers steadily in first place as we head into the All-Star break.
Matt Carpenter has reinvented himself as a batting force of nature and since joining the Yankees, he’s batting .354 with thirteen home runs in 79 at-bats. That’s not a typo, folks. Carpenter has hit 13 dingers in his short time with the Yankees including numerous multi-homer games, most recently against the arch-rival Boston Red Sox this past Saturday in a 14-1 drubbing televised nationally on Fox Sports. While Aaron Judge is still the local hero in the Bronx, Matt Carpenter has completely rewritten his baseball story and has elevated himself to getting curtain calls from the Bronx faithful. Let’s see how the second half of the season goes with the Carpenter and Judge show. At any rate, Yankees fans should be excited about bringing Matt Carpenter aboard and how he’s making mustaches cool again.
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