Position: OF
  Number: #29
  Bats:R
  Throws: R
  Height: 6-3 Weight: 215
  Birthdate: March 7, 1960

Career Notes

1997 SEASON Carter spent his final year in Toronto doing what he does best - driving in runs. He had over 100 RBI for the 10th time in his 15-year career, and also slugged 21 homers and slugged .399. He played all over the diamond, seeing time at first base and left field, as well as manning DH chores on occasion. Carter still showed a degree of speed on the basepaths, as he was successful in 8 of 10 attempts at a stolen base.

1996 SEASON Another typical Joe Carter year - he hit thirty home runs for the sixth time in his career and reached the century mark in RBI for the ninth time. He has strung together 11 consecutive years of 20 or more home runs, becoming the seventeenth player in Major League history to do so. He homered in four straight games from June 14-18, tying a club record set by George Bell in 1985 and himself in 1991. Other milestones that were reached in the course of the 1996 season were hit # 1800 (April 18 versus California's Troy Percival), and home run # 350 (July 23 versus Cleveland's Chad Ogea). He also pieced together four separate 10-game hitting streaks, the last of which ran from September 1-11 and became the first Jay and third player overall (McGwire & Canseco) to homer into the fifth deck at the Skydome.

1995 SEASON In his 12th Major League season hit .253 with 25 HR and 76 RBI in 139 games...extended his string of 20-HR seasons to 10 but snapped at 6 his stretch of 100-RBI seasons...led the club in HR for the fifth consecutive season...tied for sixth in the American League with 558 at-bats and 9 outfield assists...led the league in fly balls hit (231) and errors by a left fielder (7)...had four multi-HR games...recorded 23 consecutive stolen bases until he was caught on 6/26 at Boston, a streak dating back to May 1993.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Joseph Chris Carter was selected by the Cubs in the first round (second overall) of the June 1981 free-agent draft...after 3 seasons in the Cubs organization, including 23 Major League games in 1983, was traded to Cleveland on 6/13/84 with Mel Hall, Don Schulze and Darryl Banks in exchange for Ron Hassey, Rick Sutcliffe and George Frazier....after 6 seasons with the Indians was traded to San Diego on 12/6/89 in exchange for Sandy Alomar, Chris James and Carlos Baerga...after 1 season in San Diego was traded to Toronto on 12/5/90 with Roberto Alomar in exchange for Tony Fernandez and Fred McGriff...has spent the last 5 seasons with the Blue Jays...is a 4-time All-Star...has at least 24 HR in each of the last 10 seasons...is only the 22nd Major Leaguer to produce at least 20 HR in 10 straight years...has eight 100-RBI seasons, including 6 straight from 1989-94, and nine 90-RBI seasons...has 32 multi-homer games, tied for 26th on the all-time list...had one of his best seasons in 1986, when he hit a career-high .302 with 29 HR and a career-high 121 RBI for Cleveland...tied that career high in RBI in 1993 with Toronto...in 1989 for Cleveland hit a career-high 35 HR...in 1994 established the Major League record for RBI in April (31)...that season had a club-record 80 RBI at the All-Star break...shares Major League record for most HR in consecutive games (5, 1989) and most 3-HR games in a season (2, 1989)...established the American League record for most career 3-HR games (5)...became the first Major League player ever to have 100-RBI seasons in 3 consecutive seasons with 3 different clubs (Cleveland 1989, San Diego 1990, Toronto 1991)...in 1987 became the first 30-30 player in Indians history when he hit 32 HR with 31 stolen bases...that season also became just the third player ever to have a 30-30 season with 100 RBI...in 1991 won a Silver Slugger Award...in April 1994 became only the seventh player to win the AL Player of the Week Award twice in the same month...in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series vs Philadelphia hit the biggest HR of his career, a 3-run shot off Mitch Williams in the bottom of the ninth that erased a 6-5 lead and gave the Jays their second straight championship...was just the second Series-ending homer in history.

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