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Re: Matt Carpenter

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go birds wrote:I feel like he's also gotten alot of bad strike calls.
I know everyone has posted metrics that show statistical evidence that is probably more related to why but by watching I still think he was getting some bad strike calls against him.

Carp's typically not one to chase balls that out of the zone (even though his K rate this year seems to have jumped pretty drastically), but I think umps have been calling the ball up and away against him a lot more often this year. The pitches look like balls to me, and I think Carp knows he can't do much w/ the pitch and lays off it (as he's done in the past since it's been called a ball), but now w/ it being called a strike he's either striking out looking or being force to swing (and miss many times).

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