{"id":23392,"date":"2013-03-09T05:08:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T13:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=23392"},"modified":"2013-03-09T05:08:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T13:08:59","slug":"steve-carlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/09\/steve-carlton\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Carlton"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hey baseball fans!<\/div>\n
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I recently thought to myself: “Who was the best pitcher ever on the worst team?” I didn’t want to write something about Walter Johnson<\/a><\/strong>, because his name regularly appears in my articles, so I decided to go with the next best person: Steve Carlton<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n
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Steve Carlton was a very tough competitor, which is why he won 329 games (second only toWarren Spahn<\/a><\/strong> among lefties) in his 24-year career from 1965-1988 with the Cardinals, Phillies, Twins, Giants, Indians, and White Sox. His hard slider complemented a great fastball, getting him 4,136 career strikeouts, fourth on the all-time list and second on the list when he retired. “Lefty” (as he was nicknamed) had six 20-win seasons, was the first pitcher to win four Cy Young<\/a><\/strong> Awards, and is in second place (behind Bob Gibson<\/a><\/strong>) in baseball history for the most starts in a row with at least six innings pitched (69). The Miamian ten-time All Star was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994, his first year of eligibility. Also, in 1972, Carlton won 27 games for the last-place Philadelphia Phillies, a team that only won 59 games all season! That’s almost 50% of the team’s wins, which is amazing! He definitely deserves a plaque in Cooperstown.<\/div>\n
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Well, that’s my article about the great Steve Carlton.  (Note that I originally posted this for Big Leagues Magazine<\/a>, a really great online magazine that I write for. Hope you check it out.)
\nI hope you enjoyed this post and thanks, as always, for reading. Check back soon for more of “all the buzz on what wuzz.”<\/p>\n
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