Detroit Tigers slugger Kerry Carpenter vs left-handed pitchers? Here's the plan

Detroit Tigers slugger Kerry Carpenter vs left-handed pitchers? Here's the plan

The Detroit Tigers are open to expanding Kerry Carpenter's role on offense in 2025, but they won't abandon their best strategy for scoring runs.

Tigers Notes: Carpenter, Baez, Maeda

Heading into 2025, Kerry Carpenter is one of the Tigers’ most accomplished young hitters. A career .276/.338/.512 hitter across 236 games in the majors, Carpenter missed time last year due to a lumbar spine stress fracture but raked when healthy, crushing the ball to the tune of a .284/.345/.587 slash line with 18 homers in just 87 games. For all of Carpenter’s success as a hitter, however, he’s been limited almost entirely to work against oppos…