Clinton Charles Everts (born August 10, 1984) is an
American
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former
professional baseball
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pitcher
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. He played
Minor League Baseball from 2003 to 2013 and last pitched for the
independent
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Sugar Land Skeeters
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in 2014.
Career
Everts attended
Cypress Falls High School
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, where he pitched alongside
Scott Kazmir
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. He was drafted by the
Montreal Expos
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in the first round (fifth overall) of the
2002 Major League Baseball Draft
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It is featured in Michael Lewis' 2003 book '' Moneyball''.
First round selections
Supplemental first round compensation selections
* ...
.
He was rated as a top-100 prospect by ''
Baseball America
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'' prior to the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
During his third season, he underwent
Tommy John surgery
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.
Everts pitched in the Montreal Expos /
Washington Nationals
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farm system until he signed with a major league contract with the
New York Mets
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prior to the 2010 season.
He was sent to AA prior to the start of the season, and was designated for assignment on April 11.
On June 216, 2010, he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays to complete a previous trade which sent
Jorge Padilla to
New York Mets
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' AAA affiliate,
Buffalo Bisons
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.
In 2013, he played in the
Australian Baseball League
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, pitching for the
Canberra Cavalry
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. He last played for the
Sugar Land Skeeters
The Sugar Land Space Cowboys are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball club. They are located in Sugar Land, Texas, part of the Greater Houston metr ...
from 2013 to 2014.
In May 2017 he was named the Interim Director of Baseball/Head Varsity Coach for the 2017/18 school year for
St. John's School in Houston, Texas, in his third year on the school's coaching staff.
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
People from Cypress, Texas
Baseball pitchers
Vermont Expos players
Savannah Sand Gnats players
Brevard County Manatees players
Gulf Coast Nationals players
Potomac Nationals players
Hagerstown Suns players
Harrisburg Senators players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Binghamton Mets players
New Hampshire Fisher Cats players
Las Vegas 51s players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Sugar Land Skeeters players
Baseball players from Texas
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