Steve Carlton
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Steven Norman Carlton (born December 22, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher for six different teams from 1965 to 1988, most notably as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies with whom he won four Cy Young Awards as well as the 1980 World Series. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
Steve Carlton | |
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Pitcher | |
Born: (1944-12-22) December 22, 1944 (age 79) Miami, Florida, U.S. | |
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |
MLB debut | |
April 12, 1965, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |
Last MLB appearance | |
April 23, 1988, for the Minnesota Twins | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 329–244 |
Earned run average | 3.22 |
Strikeouts | 4,136 |
Teams | |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Member of the National | |
Baseball Hall of Fame | |
Induction | 1994 |
Vote | 95.6% (first ballot) |
Nicknamed "Lefty", Carlton has the second-most lifetime strikeouts of any left-handed pitcher (4th overall), and the second-most lifetime wins of any left-handed pitcher (11th overall). He was the first pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards in a career. He held the lifetime strikeout record several times between 1982 and 1984, before his contemporary Nolan Ryan passed him. One of his most remarkable records was accounting for nearly half (46%) of his team's wins, when he won 27 games for the last-place (59–97) 1972 Phillies. He is the last National League pitcher to win 25 or more games in one season,[1] as well as the last pitcher from any team to throw more than 300 innings in a season.[2] He also holds the record with the most career balks of any pitcher, with 90 (double the second on the all-time list, Bob Welch).