Steve Karsay
| Steve Karsay | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: March 24, 1972 Flushing, New York |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 17, 1993, for the Oakland Athletics | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| June 17, 2006, for the Oakland Athletics | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 32–39 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.01 | ||
| Strikeouts | 458 | ||
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Stefan Andrew Karsay (born March 24, 1972) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics (1993–94, 1997, 2006), Cleveland Indians (1998–2001), Atlanta Braves (2001), New York Yankees (2002, 2004–05), and Texas Rangers (2005). Karsay is currently the pitching coach for the Cleveland Indians Class-AAA affiliate, the Columbus Clippers .
Karsay grew up in the College Point neighborhood in Queens, New York City, just a few miles from Shea Stadium.. In high school, he won the Gatorade Baseball Player of the year for New York State, as a pitcher for Christ the King High School.
A 1st round draft pick of the Toronto Blue Jays in 1990, Karsay was traded to the Athletics along with outfielder José Herrera for Rickey Henderson on July 31, 1993. A starter in his early days with the Athletics, Karsay worked mostly in middle relief and as a set-up man from 1998 on, although he also had some notable success as a closer in 2000 with the Indians and 2002 with the Yankees.
His career was marred by injuries, causing him to miss the 1995 (elbow surgery), 1996 (Tommy John surgery) and 2003 (shoulder surgery) seasons; in all, he was on the disabled list seven times.
On July 28, 2005, together with Scott Feldman and A. J. Murray, he threw a perfect game against the Corpus Christi Hooks. It was the first combined nine-inning perfect game in Texas League history, and the third overall.
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