Steve Carter

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Steven Jerome Carter

Bats Left, Throws Right
Height 6' 4", Weight 201 lb.
School Hagerstown Community College, University of Georgia
High School Albemarle High School
Debut April 16, 1989
Final Game October 3, 1990
Born December 3, 1964 in Charlottesville, VA USA

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Steve Carter was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates as a 17th round pick, June 2, 1987. He was shipped out to the Watertown Pirates of the NY-Penn League. Steven played in 66 games and wound up with a .310 batting average in his first year as a pro. The NY-Penn is a class A short season league. He slugged .393 and had an OBP around .393. His 50 runs tied Wes Chamberlain for the team lead and his 24 steals were second on the squad. He tied Elio Jose for 5th in the league in batting average.

1988 saw Steven have a busy year playing with three different clubs, the Salem Buccaneers of the class A Carolina League, the Harrisburg Senators of the AA Eastern League and the Augusta Pirates of the South Atlantic League. He hit .299/.368/.439 with 22 steals in 30 tries in 74 games for Augusta, was 6 for 21 with Salem and 10 for 35 with 7 runs in 9 games for Harrisburg. Had he qualified, he would have ranked 5th in the SAL in average.

His performance earned him a shot in 1989 with the parent Pittsburgh Pirates team, where he got into nine games, going 2 for 16 with a double, homer, 2 walks, 2 runs and 3 RBI. In his big league debut, he pinch-hit for Rafael Belliard and was intentionally walked by Pascual Perez to get to Doug Drabek (who left for a pinch-hitter as well). Carter came around to score on a Jose Lind hit. His lone big league homer was a 3-run shot off of ex-Buc Don Robinson on April 30.

He spent most of the year with the Buffalo Bisons of the AAA American Association. He finished out the year with Buffalo, hitting .295/~.345/.404 with 17 steals and 6 triples and playing an even 100 games. Had he qualified, he would have been 5th in the AA in average.

He was with the Bisons again in 1990, hitting .303 in 120 games. Following this The Major League Pittsburgh Pirates called him up at he end of the Buffalo season but he only managed to get into five games and his Major League career ended on October 3, 1990.

The outfielder was traded by the Pirates to the Chicago Cubs for Gary Varsho on March 29, 1991 and he played this season for the Iowa Cubs of the AAA American Association. On December 10, 1991 he was granted free agency and signed with the Detroit Tigers for the 1992 season.

Steven spent the 1992 year with the Toledo Mud Hens of the AAA International League, hitting an even .300 in 130 games. He was then traded by the Detroit Team to the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, in an unknown transaction before the 1993 season.

1993 put Carter in the AAA American Association for 68 games where he hit .269 for the Indianapolis Indians. On July 12 the Cincinnati Team traded the outfielder to the Houston Astros for Jack Daugherty. Carter finised up the 1993 season with the Tucson Toros of the AAA Pacific Coast League.

Carter played in Italy in 1994, hitting .431/.529/.684 for C.F.C Nettuno in Serie A1; he had 64 runs and 54 RBI in 44 games and stole 10 bases in 11 tries. He hit .391 in the semifinals and .267/.542/.333 in the finals as Nettuno fell short. In 1995 he played in 24 games with the Charlotte Knights of the AAA International League before retiring early, in what was to be his last known season.

Statistics

Year	League	Clubs	G	AB	H	AVG
1987	Ny-Penn (A)	Watertown Pirates	66	242	75	.310
1988	Carolina (A)	Salem Buccaneers	6	21	6	.286
1988	Eastern (AA)	Harrisburg Senators	9	35	10	.286
1988	So Atl (A)	Augusta Pirates	74	278	83	.299
1989	National (MLB)	Pittsburgh Pirates	9	16	2	.125
1989	Am Assoc (AAA)	Buffalo Bisons	100	356	105	.295
1990	Am Assoc (AAA)	Buffalo Bisons	120	426	129	.303
1990	National (MLB)	Pittsburgh Pirates	5	5	1	.200
1991	Am Assoc (AAA)	Iowa Cubs	136	519	149	.287
1992	International (AAA)	Toledo Mud Hens	130	470	141	.300
1993	Am Assoc (AAA)	Indianapolis Indians	68	212	57	.269
1993	Pac Coast (AAA)	Tucson Toros	40	146	36	.247
1994	Serie A1 (Italy)	Nettuno	44	174	75	.431
1995	International (AAA)	Charlotte Knights	24	72	18	.250