With the 2024 season now blessedly just days away, it’s time to look at a player who is perhaps being taken for granted this spring. Kerry Carpenter followed Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene to the major leagues late in 2022, and so far has surpassed them both with a very nice full season debut in 2023. Carpenter’s dangerous bat remains his calling card, but it’s the secondary parts of his game that offer room for improvement this season.
By now, Carpenter’s story is well known. A 19th rounder back in 2019, the corner outfielder came out of nowhere with a monstrous 2022 campaign in the upper minors after re-making his swing with Aaron Judge’s swing coach, Richard Schenck.