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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 33)

IP	ERA	WHIP	SO	W	L	SV	WARP
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Birth Date	7-15-1985
Height	6' 3"
Weight	250 lbs

Age	38 years, 9 months, 8 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

: -0.32015
: 2016
: 2017
: 2018
: -0.32019
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MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
cFIP and DRA are not available on a by-team basis and display as zeroes(0). See TOT line for season totals of these stats.
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YEAR	Team	Lg	G	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
2011	HOU	MLB	34	27.7	1	3	1	28	13	29	3	101	9.1	4.2	1.0	9.4	0%	.329	1.48	4.14	2.93	111	5.35	124.4	-0.2
2012	HOU	0	30	29.7	0	2	0	43	14	27	4	101	13.0	4.2	1.2	8.2	0%	.402	1.92	4.58	6.07	105	4.76	109.2	0.0
2012	TOR	0	3	2.7	0	0	0	8	2	4	1	100	27.0	6.8	3.4	13.5	0%	.583	3.75	8.29	30.38	84	1.67	38.3	0.1
2013	ATL	MLB	56	65.7	4	1	0	45	20	74	5	99	6.2	2.7	0.7	10.1	0%	.260	0.99	2.80	1.78	87	2.88	68.9	1.4
2014	ATL	MLB	65	61.0	6	4	3	61	16	67	5	95	9.0	2.4	0.7	9.9	0%	.333	1.26	2.90	3.54	94	3.16	77.5	1.0
2015	NYA	0	22	18.7	0	1	0	20	7	11	3	108	9.6	3.4	1.4	5.3	0%	.283	1.45	5.29	4.82	111	5.44	127.1	-0.2
2015	WAS	0	8	6.0	0	0	0	5	2	4	1	95	7.5	3.0	1.5	6.0	0%	.222	1.17	4.99	1.50	118	6.07	141.7	-0.1
2019	TEX	MLB	4	3.3	0	0	0	4	4	2	0	112	10.8	10.8	0.0	5.4	46%	.308	2.40	5.64	5.40	114	7.19	147.4	-0.1
2012	TOT	MLB	33	32.3	0	2	0	51	16	31	5	101	14.2	4.5	1.4	8.6	0%	.000	2.07	4.88	8.07	103	4.51	103.3	0.1
2015	TOT	MLB	30	24.7	0	1	0	25	9	15	4	105	9.1	3.3	1.5	5.5	0%	.000	1.38	5.22	4.01	112	5.59	130.7	-0.3
Career		MLB	222	214.7	11	11	4	214	78	218	22	99	9.0	3.3	0.9	9.1	41%	.329	1.36	3.64	3.69	98	3.90	92.0	1.9

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-
2011	HOU	MLB	NL	34	0	27.7	1	3	1	28	13	29	3	101	9.1	4.2	1.0	9.4	0%	.329	1.48	4.14	2.93	111	5.35	124.4
2011	CCH	AA	TEX	14	0	14.0	0	1	5	14	3	17	4		9.0	1.9	2.6	10.9	0%	.303	1.21	5.73	4.50	112	5.18	105.7
2011	OKL	AAA	PCL	19	0	19.0	0	0	9	15	6	21	0		7.1	2.8	0.0	9.9	0%	.306	1.11	2.51	0.00	66	2.35	47.9
2011	ESC	Wnt	LID	10	0	10.3	1	0	0	12	2	10	0		10.5	1.7	0.0	8.7	0%	.387	1.35	1.71	3.48	0	0.00	0.0
2012	HOU	MLB	NL	30	0	29.7	0	2	0	43	14	27	4	101	13.0	4.2	1.2	8.2	0%	.402	1.92	4.58	6.07	105	4.76	109.2
2012	TOR	MLB	AL	3	0	2.7	0	0	0	8	2	4	1	100	27.0	6.8	3.4	13.5	0%	.583	3.75	8.29	30.38	84	1.67	38.3
2012	LVG	AAA	PCL	16	0	17.7	0	1	1	15	7	19	1		7.6	3.6	0.5	9.7	0%	.292	1.25	3.60	3.57	83	3.60	75.1
2012	OKL	AAA	PCL	7	0	8.7	1	0	3	7	0	6	1		7.3	0.0	1.0	6.2	0%	.231	0.81	3.77	2.08	82	4.95	103.1
2013	ATL	MLB	NL	56	0	65.7	4	1	0	45	20	74	5	99	6.2	2.7	0.7	10.1	0%	.260	0.99	2.80	1.78	87	2.88	68.9
2013	GWN	AAA	INT	6	0	15.3	1	2	0	17	4	11	1		10.0	2.3	0.6	6.5	0%	.340	1.37	3.59	3.52	95	4.30	93.5
2014	ATL	MLB	NL	65	0	61.0	6	4	3	61	16	67	5	95	9.0	2.4	0.7	9.9	0%	.333	1.26	2.90	3.54	94	3.16	77.5
2014	GWN	AAA	INT	2	2	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	117	0.0	0.0	0.0	18.0	0%	.000	0.00	-0.66	0.00	44	2.02	42.8
2015	NYA	MLB	AL	22	0	18.7	0	1	0	20	7	11	3	108	9.6	3.4	1.4	5.3	0%	.283	1.45	5.29	4.82	111	5.44	127.1
2015	WAS	MLB	NL	8	0	6.0	0	0	0	5	2	4	1	95	7.5	3.0	1.5	6.0	0%	.222	1.17	4.99	1.50	118	6.07	141.7
2015	POT	A+	CAR	1	1	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	92	9.0	9.0	0.0	0.0	0%	.250	2.00	6.25	9.00	122	4.20	92.1
2015	HAR	AA	EAS	2	0	1.7	0	0	0	0	1	1	0		0.0	5.4	0.0	5.4	0%	.000	0.60	3.87	0.00	109	3.72	81.7
2016	SLC	AAA	PCL	15	0	15.0	1	1	0	17	9	18	2		10.2	5.4	1.2	10.8	38%	.375	1.73	5.85	7.80	106	4.79	105.7
2017	WTN	AA	SOU	3	0	2.7	0	0	0	5	2	2	0		16.9	6.8	0.0	6.8	18%	.455	2.63	4.99	10.13	110	7.43	158.1
2017	RNO	AAA	PCL	7	0	10.0	0	0	0	18	6	7	2		16.2	5.4	1.8	6.3	34%	.444	2.40	7.02	9.90	120	8.38	178.3
2019	TEX	MLB	AL	4	0	3.3	0	0	0	4	4	2	0	112	10.8	10.8	0.0	5.4	46%	.308	2.40	5.64	5.40	114	7.19	147.4
2019	NAS	AAA	PCL	39	0	38.7	2	0	21	30	13	42	3		7.0	3.0	0.7	9.8	44%	.287	1.11	3.79	1.63	83	2.40	49.3

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2011	452	0.5265	0.4934	0.7354	0.6639	0.3037	0.8101	0.5538	0.2646
2012	619	0.5008	0.4879	0.7152	0.6581	0.3172	0.8039	0.5306	0.2848
2013	1048	0.5248	0.5000	0.7252	0.6764	0.3052	0.8011	0.5395	0.2748
2014	997	0.5667	0.5216	0.7500	0.6743	0.3218	0.8084	0.5899	0.2500
2015	384	0.5000	0.4948	0.7421	0.7031	0.2865	0.8296	0.5273	0.2579
2019	69	0.4638	0.4638	0.8438	0.7500	0.2162	1.0000	0.3750	0.1563
Career	3569	0.5287	0.5018	0.7358	0.6754	0.3080	0.8117	0.5494	0.2642

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation
2014-06-17	2014-07-02	15-DL	15	15	Right	Arm	Strain	Biceps	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2020	CIN	$
2019	TEX	$
2018	ARI	$
2017	TBA	$
2016	ATL	$
2015	NYA	$1,275,000
2014	ATL	$532,500
2013	ATL	$
2012	HOU	$485,000

Years	Description	Salary
3 yr	Previous	$2,292,500
3 yr	Total	$2,292,500

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
4 y 36 d	Sports One Athlete Mgt.	1 year (2020)

Details

1 year (2020). Signed by Cincinnati as a free agent 12/19 (minor-league contract).
1 year (2019). Signed by Texas as a free agent 2/4/19 (minor-league contract). DFA by Texas 6/8/19. Sent outright to Triple-A 6/10/19. Contract selected by Texas 8/13/19. DFA by Texas 8/19/19. Sent outright to Triple-A 8/21/19. Elected free agency 10/19.
1 year (2018). Released by Arizona 3/17/18.
1 year (2017). Signed by Tampa Bay as a free agent 1/30/17 (minor-league contract). Released by Tampa Bay 3/23/17. Signed by Arizona as a free agent 7/21/17 (minor-league contract).
1 year (2016). Signed by Atlanta as a free agent 11/21/15 (minor-league contract). Released by Atlanta 3/5/16. Signed by Tampa Bay as a free agent 3/11/16 (minor-league contract). Released by Tampa Bay 3/30/16. Signed by LA Angels 5/10/16 (minor-league contract). Released by LA Angels 6/22/16.
1 year/$1.275M (2015). Acquired by NY Yankees in trade from Atlanta 1/1/15. Signed by NY Yankees 1/16/15 (avoided arbitration). Acquired by Washington in trade 6/11/15 after being DFA by NY Yankees 6/3/15. Sent outright to Triple-A by Washington 11/18/15.
1 year/$0.5325M (2014). Re-signed by Atlanta 2/25/14.
1 year (2013). Re-signed by Atlanta 2/27/13.
1 year/$0.485M (2012). Re-signed by Houston 2/23/12. Acquired by Toronto in trade from Houston 7/20/12. Acquired by Boston in trade from Toronto 10/20/12. Claimed by Atlanta off waivers 11/30/12 after being DFA by Boston 11/20/12.
1 year/$0.414M (2011). Contract purchased by Houston 11/19/10. Re-signed by Houston 2/11.
Acquired by Houston in trade from St. Louis 8/19/10 (Pedro Feliz deal).
Drafted as catcher by St. Louis 2006 (12-376) (West Virginia).

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	L	SV	G	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	VORP	WARP
90^o	1.5	2.2	51	49.7	44	22	40	7	.260	1.32	4.50	4.57	-8.4	-0.9
80^o	1.2	1.8	45	43.3	41	21	35	6	.276	1.44	4.98	5.07	-9.6	-1.0
70^o	1	1.6	40	38.8	39	20	31	6	.287	1.53	5.34	5.44	-10.1	-1.1
60^o	0.9	1.4	36	35.1	37	19	28	6	.297	1.60	5.65	5.77	-10.4	-1.1
50^o	0.7	1.2	33	31.8	35	18	26	5	.307	1.68	5.95	6.08	-10.5	-1.1
40^o	0.6	1	29	28.5	33	17	23	5	.316	1.76	6.26	6.39	-10.3	-1.1
30^o	0.5	0.9	26	25.1	31	16	20	5	.327	1.84	6.60	6.74	-10.0	-1.1
20^o	0.4	0.7	22	21.3	27	14	17	4	.339	1.95	7.00	7.16	-9.5	-1.0
10^o	0.2	0.5	17	16.3	23	12	13	3	.356	2.10	7.58	7.75	-8.3	-0.9
Weighted Mean	0.7	1.2	32	31.0	34	17	25	5	.304	1.66	5.90	6.03	-10.0	-1.1

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, David Carpenter threw 3,669 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2011 and 2020, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2020, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (93mph) and Slider (86mph), also mixing in a Splitter (88mph).