3BSTLMLB🌅 Early Bloomer · 1882

Hick Carpenter

5'11" · 186 lbsBorn August 16, 18551879–1892MLB.com ↗

MLB Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

MLB profile

Peak 3Y VAL

4.5

1882, 1883, 1885 avg

Career VAL

22.0

Value Above League

Games

1,118

Hits

1,202

Home Runs

Runs Batted In

543

Batting Avg

.259

Career Shape

Comet

62% in peak 3y

All-time standings

Career boards only, within MLB

Cross-sport prominence: 79.1th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Historical franchise

2 clubs that no longer exist

No continuous modern successor — attributed to the franchise itself, never folded into a modern club.

Syracuse Stars19th-Century Majors · 1879 Worcester Brown Stockings19th-Century Majors · 1881

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Boards that rank MLB careers

MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ Leaders MLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 K MLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps MLB Career Arc Types MLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories MLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in October MLB Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape MLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust MLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale MLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms MLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team MLB Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Hitters and Pitchers)MLB Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on Cooperstown's Doorstep MLB Journeymen MLB League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading Seasons MLB Loyalty

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	VAL
1879	23–24	Syracuse Stars	65	261	30	53	6	0	0	20	—	2	15	.203	—	.226	—	0
1880	24–25	Cincinnati Reds	77	300	32	72	6	4	0	23	—	2	15	.240	—	.287	—	0.6
1881	25–26	Worcester Brown Stockings	83	347	40	75	12	2	2	31	—	3	19	.216	—	.280	—	0.1
1882	26–27	CIN	80	351	78	120	15	5	1	67	—	10	—	.342	—	.422	—	6
1883	27–28	CIN	95	435	99	130	18	4	3	40	—	19	—	.299	—	.379	—	4.2
1884	28–29	CIN	108	474	80	121	16	2	4	60	—	6	—	.255	.271	.323	.594	2
1885	29–30	CIN	112	473	89	131	12	8	2	61	—	9	—	.277	.295	.349	.644	3.4
1886	30–31	CIN	111	458	67	101	8	5	2	61	8	18	—	.221	.262	.273	.535	0
1887	31–32	CIN	127	498	70	124	12	6	1	50	44	19	—	.249	.282	.303	.585	0
1888	32–33	CIN	136	551	68	147	14	5	3	67	59	5	—	.267	.280	.327	.607	2.9
1889	33–34	CIN	123	486	67	127	23	6	0	63	47	18	41	.261	.293	.333	.626	2.8
1892	36–37	STL	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	—