There are no major surprises in the announcements, although Eaves had acquitted himself well in the Arizona Fall League recently. We provided a breakdown of each eligible Tigers player earlier Monday. We also explained the Rule 5 draft and who is eligible earlier this month. Essentially, players who were drafted out of college in the draft, and players who were drafted out of high school or signed as international free agents under the age of 19 in are eligible this year.
Carpenter is a year-old left-handed starter who was drafted out of college in the 21st round in by the Tampa Bay Rays He spent the last two seasons in Triple-A in the Colorado Rockies farm system, improving his ERA to 4. He struck out 9. The team will need at least one spot open if it wishes to add a player in the Rule 5 draft, and more if it plans to ink any other players this offseason.
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And yet, after that adversity, Chris came out the gates HOT in In his first start, against the habitually moribund Tampa Bay Devil Rays , he surrendered only 4 hits in 8 innings, striking out 11 men in an blowout. At the end of June, things were looking good , 3. It was a real Jekyll and Hyde year: after a truly rough July and part of August left him , 4. Things were looking up, and the Jays felt they could count on Carpenter and a new hope, Roy Halladay , to carry them back to prosperity.
Cue the ominous music A shoulder injury subsequently landed him on the DL, returning to allow 3 runs to the Yankees on April 21st. A return engagement was made with the DL for shoulder tendinitis. In August, with a , 5. The Blue Jays, kind souls that they were, outrighted Chris off the man roster at season's end and offered a minor league, incentive-laden deal to return.
Chris chose free agency, signing with the St. Louis Cardinals. In more unfortunate news, he was never able to get out of the minor league blocks in , his doctors discovering that the labrum was torn again. Finally fully healthy for the first time in a long time, Chris was , 3. Unlike past seasons, where struggles would undoubtedly find him, he kept on cruising. He reached a career best in victories by August 20th and struck out 11 Cincinnati Reds batters for a complete game six days later, only to fall, , to Aaron Harang.
A nerve issue ended his season in September, not before he had crafted a , 3. But the best was yet to come. In , Chris came out similar to Billy Madison preparing to destroy a classroom of first graders in dodgeball. The world was in big, big trouble. Days after agreeing to a contract extension through the season, Chris shut out the Chicago Cubs , his first shutout since his Blue Jay days.
In June, he made the Blue Jays look like a bunch of chumps, striking out 10 while allowing only one hit in a shutout. At 13 wins before the All-Star break, he was tabbed to start the iteration of the Mid-Summer Classic at Comerica Park , pitching a scoreless inning in the only ASG in which he would make an appearance. Another complete game victory against the Astros netted him the sacred 20th win of the season in just his 28th start, becoming the fastest to the mark as a Cardinal since the great Dizzy Dean.
He finished the season a filthy , 2. He stayed sharp in the postseason, going , 2. At season's end, he was winner of the Cy Young Award , finished 8th in MVP voting and cleaned up a handful of other awards, including being named co-St.
He made his second All-Star team in the summer, though he would not play, and when he defeated the Atlanta Braves on July 4th , he had now defeated every team in baseball except for his Cardinals.
Three weeks later, he tag-teamed a shutout of the Colorado Rockies with Randy Flores and Jason Isringhausen , the Cardinals' first shutout of the Rox in Denver in the existence of the Colorado club. Though he was not as sharp victory-wise, going , he posted a strong 3. His postseason was a contrast. Against the San Diego Padres , he was with a 2. In his first Fall Classic start, in Game 3, Chris enjoyed some rarefied air with Roger Clemens and Greg Maddux , becoming the third man in history to pitch 8 or more innings 8 in his case while allowing no runs and 3 hits or better 3 hits for Chris en route to a victory.
His services would not be needed again as the Cards won in five games. Life was great. And it immediately turned to crap to begin True, Chris made history in his Opening Day outing, but it was the kind of history nobody would be envious of him having made. In May, he had surgery to trim bone spurs off his elbow. After struggling with injuries and only pitching in three regular-season games, his career came to an end in at the age of When we see a pitcher winning awards, winning World Series and making millions and millions of dollars, we equate that to success.
But inside, Carpenter was struggling and he allowed the lifestyle of a big-league player to consume him. He was broken. I was lost. But Wainwright did not stop pursuing. With chapel getting no traction, Wainwright instead started inviting Carpenter to a charity golf tournament he held in Georgia.
Adam Wainwright gave Chris Carpenter a Bible in After being asked to go to this tournament for a few years, Carpenter finally said yes. Lost, broken, isolated, alone.
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