I've been requesting Carp to hit a home run all season but he still has zero. Carp has one homer in the last calendar year. One. For a guy who can't run and can't play much defense, that is horrible. I liked the Carp pick up last year and thought he would be a solid bat for years, but he has just not done the job at all this year. If he leaves it means we'll probably have to DFA him.
Here are just a few of the players with more homers than Carp this year:
Tuffy Gosewich, Endy Chavez, Kevin Frandsen, Aaron Hicks, Grant Green, Carlos Pena, Skip Schumaker, Bobby Abreu, Ben Revere, Ender Inciarte, Wil Nieves, Wilmer Flores, Nyjer Morgan, Abraham Almonte, Jake Goebbert, Willie Bloomquist, Reid Brignac, Sandy Leon, Travis Wood, Madison Bumgarner, Jordan Lyles, Ian Kennedy, Mike Minor, Gio Gonzalez, and Mike Leake. (The last 7 are pitchers, by the way.)
Sam Fuld has more HRs this year alone than Carp his hit in the last 365 days.
Carp should be glad he even has a job in the majors. He didn't have one when we picked him up, and if he gets dumped he might have to take a minor league deal.