- Carl Everett
Infobox MLB retired
name=Carl Everett
width=200
position=Outfielder /Designated hitter
bats=Switch
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date and age|1971|6|3
city-state|Tampa|Florida
debutdate=July 1
debutyear=by|1993
debutteam=Florida Marlins
finaldate=August 2
finalyear=by|2006
finalteam=Seattle Mariners
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.271
stat2label=Home run s
stat2value=202
stat3label=Runs batted in
stat3value=792
teams=
*Florida Marlins (by|1993-by|1994)
*New York Mets (by|1995-by|1997)
*Houston Astros (by|1998-by|1999)
*Boston Red Sox (by|2000-by|2001)
* Texas Rangers (by|2002-by|2003)
*Chicago White Sox (by|2003)
*Montréal Expos (by|2004)
*Chicago White Sox (by|2004-by|2005)
*Seattle Mariners (by|2006)
highlights=
* 2x All-Star selection (2000, 2003)
*World Series champion (2005)Carl Edward Everett III (born
June 3 ,1971 inTampa, Florida ) is a formerMajor League Baseball outfielder currently playing for theLong Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League. Aswitch hitter , he played with theChicago White Sox on their2005 World Series winning team. He throwsright-handed and plays all outfield positions, and occasionallydesignated hitter .High school years
Everett attended Hillsborough High School in
Tampa, Florida and was a letterman in football, baseball, and track. In football, he garnered 948 rushing yards as a senior. Carl Everett graduated from Hillsborough High School in 1990.Playing career
He was the 10th overall pick in the by|1990 amateur draft, selected by the
New York Yankees , but he would make his Major League debut with theFlorida Marlins onJuly 1 , by|1993.After being traded to the Mets, he had his first full season in by|1997 with 443
at bat s. He hit .248 that season, with a .420slugging percentage .He had his best seasons with the
Houston Astros , hitting .325 with 27stolen base s in by|1999. That year, his .571 slugging percentage was in the top 10 in the league.After being traded on
December 14 ,1999 , to theBoston Red Sox for minor league shortstopAdam Everett , he had a career high 34home run s in by|2000. The Boston fans welcomed him at first, but their enthusiasm cooled somewhat after he was suspended for 10 days for bumping into umpireRon Kulpa . The following year, Everett was fined for grabbing his crotch while yelling atSeattle Mariners pitcherJamie Moyer after hitting a home run. He struggled in by|2001, with a shoulder injury hampering his performance, and ongoing controversy with the Boston media serving as a distraction to the team. One of the few bright spots for Everett that season came onSeptember 2 ,2001 , when Everett came into the game as a pinch hitter and broke up a potentialperfect game by Mike Mussina of theNew York Yankees . Mussina had retired the first 26Boston Red Sox and gotten two strikes on Everett before he hit a soft single to left center.On
December 12 ,2001 , Everett was traded to the Texas Rangers forDarren Oliver .In three separate years, Everett has made his league's top 10 in the
hit by pitch category.In October of by|2005, Carl Everett won his first and only World Series Championship with the Chicago White Sox. Everett stepped in as the starting DH for most of that season for the White Sox after an early season injury to Frank Thomas.
On
December 14 ,2005 , Everett was signed by the Mariners off of thefree agent market to a one year contract for the 2006 season, with a vesting option for by|2007. On Mother's Day,May 14 ,2006 , Everett was one of more than 50 hitters who brandished apink bat to benefit the [http://www.komen.org Breast Cancer Foundation] .The majority of the time, he was a
designated hitter and very rarely played the field, backing up the corner outfield positions. He played in 92 games before the Mariners designated Everett for assignment onJuly 26 ,2006 , effectively ending his tenure with the Mariners organization. At the time of his release, Larry Stone pointed out in the Seattle Times [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2003155137_stone27.html] , he was 85th out of 86 AL players with qualifying at bats in batting average, at .227.Everett is currently on the roster of the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Through July 22, 2008 Everett was hitting a remarkable .342 with 15 HR and 52 RBI in only 67 games. The Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Angels have expressed interest in the veteran slugger, but he remains unsigned by a major league team.
Controversies
Everett is an outspoken man, and his remarks have proven controversial on several occasions.
Perhaps the best-known of these was his denial of the existence of
dinosaur s. He was quoted as saying, "God created the sun, the stars, the heavens and the earth, and then madeAdam and Eve . The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a "Tyrannosaurus rex"." He also deridedfossil s of dinosaur bones as man-made fakes. [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/news/2000/07/19/everett_flashback] In reference to these comments,Boston Globe columnistDan Shaughnessy dubbed Everett "Jurassic Carl." Everett, in turn, referred to Shaughnessy as the "curly-haired boyfriend" of Globe beat writerGordon Edes , [" [http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=185251 A Curt response] ", Inside Track, theBoston Herald , publishedFebruary 27 ,2007 , accessedFebruary 27 ,2007 .] a nickname which stuck afterESPN columnistBill Simmons started incorporating it into his work. In Seattle, he was known as C-Rex, a name given him by writers for the Mariners blogU.S.S. Mariner [http://www.ussmariner.com] .Everett, again in an interview with Shaughnessy, questioned the validity of the Apollo Moon Landing. [http://www.bostonphoenix.com/supplements/the_best/00/text/OE_BASE_BEHAVIOR.html]
In 1997, Everett and his wife Linda were charged with abusing their two children, Shawna and Carl IV. The criminal charges, which stemmed from allegations that Linda had applied "excessive
corporal punishment " and that Carl had chosen not to intervene, were ultimately dropped. A judge in New YorkFamily court , however, placed Shawna in the care of her maternal grandmother, where she currently remains. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mariners/2002684662_everetttimeline15.html]Each season, Everett tends to get into altercations with umpires. Some of these tirades have resulted in suspensions and fines, the longest of which, 10 games, came during the 2000 season after an incident in which he bumped noses with umpire
Ron Kulpa during the process of taking exception to Kulpa's ruling that Everett's batting stance was illegal, he was also fined $5,000. In numerous interviews, such as the one in which he denies the existence of dinosaurs [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/news/2000/07/19/everett_flashback] , Everett has stated that he thrives on being hated, and that it keeps him on top of his game. Opposing players, umpires, and even his own teammates are not immune, as evidenced by his postgame shouting match with Seattle managerMike Hargrove [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2510427] after a 14-6 loss to theLos Angeles Angels onJuly 5 ,2006 .Everett has also made controversial remarks about
homosexuality . He once said that if he had an openly gay teammate that he would consider retiring, or, at the very least, "set him straight." In the 2005 season, he told "Maxim" that he has had gay teammates and accepted them, but, "Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be. … I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay." [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2087125] .References
ee also
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Top 500 home run hitters of all time External links
* [http://www.liducks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=statistics Long Island Ducks Statistics]
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