Matt Carpenter is an 11-year major league veteran who's spent his entire professional career with the St. Louis Cardinals. He's a three-time All-Star who has been a part of two World Series teams in 2011 and 2013. But he almost didn't make it there.
He arrived at Texas Christian to play baseball, but it wasn't long after that he began to neglect the discipline that got him there. He added a lot of weight and was just sort of treading water with his ability. His head coach had a heart-to-heart conversation with him prior to his senior year, and it changed everything. Carpenter quit a number of things cold turkey and realized it was now or never if he was going to have a career playing professional baseball.
He shares that story in this week's clip for Table Forty.
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