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Steve Carlton
Pitcher

1965-71 St. Louis Cardinals
1972-86 Philadelphia Phillies
1986 San Francisco Giants
1987 Cleveland Indians
1987-88 Minnesota Twins

  • Holds the NL record for career strikeouts with 4,000.

  • Leads all left-handed pitchers with 4,136 career strikeouts in the NL and AL combined.

  • Had one of the most spectacular seasons ever in 1972 when he went 27-10 with 310 strikeouts and a 1.97 ERA for the last place Phillies. Carlton's 27 wins accounted for an amazing 46 percent of the Phillies total of 59 wins that season, a modern major league record. Carlton led the NL in 6 major pitching categories that season--wins, ERA, starts, complete games, innings pitched, and strikeouts.

  • Was only the second pitcher in NL history to fan 300 men in a season when he accomplished that feat in 1972.

  • Won an amazing 4 Cy Young Awards--1972, 1977, 1980, and 1982.

  • After the 1972 season, Carlton signed a contract calling for $167,000 a season, then a record for a pitcher.

  • Won 2 games in the 1980 World Series to give the Phillies their first world championship.

  • Led the NL in wins 4 times.

  • Carlton's most famous pitch was his slider. He began developing it during a winter trip to Japan after the 1968 season.


A young Carlton, 1967

  • Was on four World Series teams--the 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals and the 1980 and 1983 Philadelphia Phillies.

  • Went 14-9 with a 2.98 ERA in his first full season in 1967 to help the Cardinals reach the World Series.

  • Had his first dominating season in 1969 when he went 17-11 with a 2.17 ERA.

  • Had a league-leading 24 wins in 1980 to send the Phillies to their first World Series in 30 years.

  • Had 329 career victories.

  • Carlton was famous for using kung fu to strengthen his body. One of his favorite exercises was to bury his hands into a three-foot deep barrel of rice.

  • Had six 20-win seasons.

  • Led the NL in strikeouts 5 times.

  • Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
YR TN L G W L PCT IP H BB K ERA
1965 StL N 15 0 0 .000 25.0 27 8 21 2.52
1966 StL N 9 3 3 .500 52.0 56 18 25 3.12
1967 StL N 30 14 9 .609 193.0 173 62 168 2.98
1968 StL N 34 13 11 .542 231.2 214 61 162 2.99
1969 StL N 31 17 11 .607 236.1 185 93 210 2.17
1970 StL N 34 10 19 .345 253.2 239 109 193 3.73
1971 StL N 37 20 9 .690 273.1 275 98 172 3.56
1972 Phi N 41 27 10 .730 346.1 257 87 310 1.97
1973 Phi N 40 13 20 .394 293.1 293 113 223 3.90
1974 Phi N 39 16 13 .552 291.0 249 136 240 3.22
1975 Phi N 37 15 14 .517 255.1 217 104 192 3.56
1976 Phi N 35 20 7 .741 252.2 224 72 195 3.13
1977 Phi N 36 23 10 .697 283.0 229 89 198 2.64
1978 Phi N 34 16 13 .552 247.1 228 63 161 2.84
1979 Phi N 35 18 11 .621 251.0 202 89 213 3.62
1980 Phi N 38 24 9 .727 304.0 243 90 286 2.34
1981 Phi N 24 13 4 .765 190.0 152 62 179 2.42
1982 Phi N 38 23 11 .676 295.2 253 86 286 3.10
1983 Phi N 37 15 16 .484 283.2 277 84 275 3.11
1984 Phi N 33 13 7 .650 229.0 214 79 163 3.58
1985 Phi N 16 1 8 .111 92.0 84 53 48 3.33
1986 Phi N 16 4 8 .333 83.0 102 45 62 6.18
1986 SF N 6 1 3 .250 30.0 36 16 18 5.10
1986 Chi A 10 4 3 .571 63.1 58 25 40 3.69
1987 Cle A 23 5 9 .357 109.0 111 63 71 5.37
1987 Min A 9 1 5 .167 43.0 54 23 20 6.70
1988 Min A 4 0 1 .000 9.2 20 5 5 16.7
  24   741 329 244 .574 5217.1 4672 1833 4136 3.21






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