How desperate to do you have to be to try and claim the Anime is canon, its not.
Oda has some involvement but not much, usually just telling the staff what powers not to use in filler and stuff use little notes to expand on things namely fights (like you saw up top at Sanji & Pudding Wedding).
The only people who really know what will happen in One Piece are Oda, his editors and the heads of jump like Ken Sasaki, we know people who work on the series like Greg don't know and neither do anime staff or game developers.
Anime has constantly got colors wrong (from clothes, hair, eyes, etc), how they portray clashes (you can look at Luffy vs CC and the final clash of Dressrosa s Luffy blows through Doflamingo while the anime has it be a struggle, missed details, have filler that contradicts canon as with an early filler of Zoro cutting the net contradicts Arabasta.
Anime does what it wants usually, Oda didn't want them to reveal Laugh Tale name in the movie when they asked him about it they did anyway.
Anime isn't canon, always take anime as someones interpretation of the Manga.
You can want Carrot to join that crew thats fine, but using the anime or even shit thats filler from filler arc just reeks of being desperate just cause Carrot hasn't had the best appearance wise this arc and your trying to one up the other side by bring stuff up thats irrelevant.
Be better.