Kerry Carpenter - Detroit Tigers outfielder on his breakout 2023 season and finding freedom on the field

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Kerry Carpenter is an outfielder and designated hitter with the Detroit Tigers. He was selected in the 19th round of the 2019 MLB Draft by Detroit and made his MLB debut on Aug. 10, 2022.

In 98 minor league games in 2022, he hit .313 with 30 home runs and was named Eastern League (Double-A) Player of the Month in May. A few months later, he was called up to the big-league club, and in 31 games with the Tigers he hit .252 with six home runs. In 2023 with the Tigers, he became a staple in the Detroit lineup, hitting .278 with 20 home runs in 118 games played.

Today on the podcast, we welcome Kerry Carpenter back to talk about his breakout 2023 campaign, hitting home runs at Fenway Park and what it means to play with freedom and peace.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys?
0:01.1	Coming up today on Sports Spectrum, Carrie Carpenter, Detroit Tigers Outfielder returns to the show.
0:07.6	We had Kerry on about a year ago.
0:09.8	We jumped on a Zoom, and I talked to him about some of the things that he had walked through in the previous few years.
0:17.2	In 2022, he made his Major League debut August 10th for Detroit against Cleveland. He didn't get a hit for the first bunch of years. In 2022, he made his major league debut August 10th for Detroit against Cleveland.
0:22.7	He didn't get a hit for the first bunch of at-bats that he had in the big leagues.
0:27.8	He struggled a little bit, and then he figured it out. And he had a nice little run at the end of
0:32.7	2022, which catapulted him into this past season of 2023, where he played in 118 games, 418 at-bats,
0:43.0	basically his first full season, and he hit 20 home runs, 64 RBI and hit 278 on the year.
0:50.5	It was an interesting year for Kerry, and that's why we wanted to have him back on.
0:54.2	We were at a conference together in person, and I invited him to the podcast.
0:58.6	We taped an interview.
0:59.5	He's just such a good kid, a good young man, I should say, 26 years old, and I think got a very bright future in the big leagues.
1:09.0	He lost his father a couple years back, and that was what our conversation consisted of
1:13.9	in 2022.
1:15.6	And today, as you hear our new conversation, we talk a little bit about 2023, what he
1:20.2	learned this past season going through a full year in the big leagues, but also what God's
1:25.5	been showing him now that he's had a few years removed
1:28.0	from losing his father to cancer.
1:31.4	I just want to make a note on stats.
1:33.7	Kerry, in the month of August last year, was red hot.
1:37.4	347 average, nine homers, 20 RBI.
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