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Can anyone explain why Chris Carpenter is such an abyssmal choice in fantasy baseball? I picked him twice and never again.

LOL.

Anytime we're in the same league, I will take Chris off your hands :wink: . . .

For me, until I traded him and Derreck Lee for Pujols, at Petco, he was 12-6 2.53/0.99 . . . with two no-hitters and FOUR shutouts until game 130 or so.

Pujols underperformed, and I wish I had kept Carpenter.

Of course, YMMV.

I got this out of him at Rogers Centre. I guess I was lucky....
14-9 266.2 229 84 79 64 185 20 2.67 1.10

Nothing short of good for me, 22-6 on a Minute Maid team and at least good or better on every other team. I actually like him the best of all the SP's.

You know I think the author of this thread is talking about "Fantasy" baseball and not Strat. If not he mis-spoke. This would obviously be the wrong place to do so.

Concerning his struggles of late in real baseball, unless there's an unknown injury (which is possible in his case) I think he'll be back to his normal self soon.

I thought he might be too.

I was talking about strat online, just wish I had the same luck you guys have had. Well, perhaps soon I'll go once more into the breach with Mr. Carpenter.

Thanks to all of you.

He's also excelled in just about every 2009 league I've been in, too. Those must have been two anomalies. Can you post links to the team, Barnyard?

Dave can certainly give a great analysis once he has your link.

I would guess, not even seeing your team, that four factors impacted Carpenter greatly.

1. [u:f45d80134d]ballpark selection.[/u:f45d80134d] I had him in Petco and he was lights out. If you are talking about a hitter's park, his ERA/WHIP numbers would most likely be higher. Ironically, that might not be indicative of his effectiveness: you need to index the slashlines to the ballpark.

2. [u:f45d80134d]the defense behind him.[/u:f45d80134d]. If you have a high number (3 or 4) in C, 2b, SS, CF especially (or even a low number high error combo), then his ERA/WHIP will zoom.

3. [u:f45d80134d]Your divisional competition.[/u:f45d80134d]. If you have a lot of boppers in small parks or very experienced managers in your division, they could just be outplaying you mano a mano.

4. [u:f45d80134d]Sample size.[/u:f45d80134d] I'm assuming you are talking about two FULL seasons of Carpenter. While my sampling is also low, I had it all going for me: ballpark, defense and divisional competition. That is why your question was a good one: trying to find a consensus amongst the managers here.

I would pick him again in a heartbeat.