Steven Norman Carlton is an American former professional baseball player. He
played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher for six different
teams from 1965 to 1988, most notably as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies
with whom he won four Cy Young Awards as well as the 1980 World Series. He was
elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
Nicknamed "Lefty",
Carlton has the second-most lifetime strikeouts of any left-handed pitcher (4th
overall), and the second-most lifetime wins of any left-handed pitcher (11th
overall). He was the first pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards in a career. He
held the lifetime strikeout record several times between 1982 and 1984, before
his contemporary Nolan Ryan passed him. One of his most remarkable records was
accounting for nearly half (46%) of his team's wins, when he won 27 games for
the last-place (59–97) 1972 Phillies. He is the last National League pitcher to
win 25 or more games in one season, as well as the last pitcher from any
team to throw more than 300 innings in a season. He also holds the record
with the most career balks of any pitcher, with 90 (double the second on the
all-time list, Bob Welch).