Carl Everett

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. He ran the 100 meters in 10.5 seconds.^[1]

The New York Yankees selected Everett with the 10th overall pick in the 1990 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft. After two minor league seasons, he was selected by the Florida Marlins in the 1992 MLB expansion draft. He made his major league debut with the Marlins on July 1, 1993.

Everett was traded to the New York Mets after the 1994 season for Quilvio Veras.^[2] He had his first full season in 1997. He hit .248 with a .420 slugging percentage in 142 game.^[3]

After the 1997 season, Everett was traded to the Houston Astros for John Hudek.^[4] He hit .325 with 27 stolen bases in 1999. His .571 slugging percentage was in the top 10 in the league.

After being traded on December 14, 1999, to the Boston Red Sox for minor leaguers Adam Everett and Greg Miller, Everett had a career high 34 home runs in 2000. In July, Everett was suspended for 10 days for bumping into umpire Ron Kulpa.^[5] The following August, Everett was fined for grabbing his crotch while yelling at Seattle Mariners pitcher Jamie Moyer after hitting a home run.^[6] He struggled in 2001, with a shoulder injury hampering his performance, and ongoing controversy with the Boston media serving as a distraction to the team.^{[citation needed]} One of the few bright spots for Everett that season came on September 2, 2001, when Everett came into the game as a pinch hitter and broke up a potential perfect game by Mike Mussina of the New York Yankees. Mussina had retired the first 26 Boston Red Sox and gotten two strikes on Everett before he hit a soft single to left field.^[7] Everett was suspended later in September for arriving late to a team workout.^[8]

On December 12, 2001, Everett was traded to the Texas Rangers for Darren Oliver.^[9] His nine home runs in April 2003 matched a team record, shared with Iván Rodríguez (2000), Alex Rodriguez (2002) and later Ian Kinsler (2007), Josh Hamilton (2012), and Joey Gallo (2019).^[10]

Everett was traded to the Chicago White Sox during the 2003 season for Frank Francisco, Josh Rupe and Anthony Webster. He signed as a free agent with the Montreal Expos for the 2004 season, but was traded back to the White Sox on July 18, 2004, for Gary Majewski and Jon Rauch.^[2]

In October 2005, Everett won his first and only World Series championship with the 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.^[11]

On December 14, 2005, Everett was signed by the Mariners off the free agent market to a one-year contract for the 2006 season with a vesting option for 2007.^[12] On Mother's Day, May 14, 2006, Everett was one of many hitters who brandished a pink bat to benefit the Breast Cancer Foundation.^[13] With the Mariners, Everett was primarily a designated hitter, rarely playing the field as a back up corner outfielder. He played in 92 games before the Mariners designated Everett for assignment on July 26. At the time of his release, Larry Stone wrote in the Seattle Times that he was 85th out of 86 AL players with qualifying at bats in batting average, at .227.^[14][3]

In 2007, Everett played for the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. In 2007, he hit .312 with 25 home runs and 97 RBI. In 2008, he hit .327 with 29 home runs and 100 RBI in 115 games. In 2009, Everett was the designated hitter for the Newark Bears of the Atlantic League.^[15] He played for the Bears in 2010, as well.^[1] He batted .310 with 87 home runs in 422 games in his four seasons in the Atlantic League, Everett officially retired in 2011.^[16]