Stu's Hunt Down Name: Steve Carlton

Claim to Fame, Minnesota: easily the biggest name on the 1987 World Champion Minnesota Twins that was left off the playoff roster. The Twins acquired the legendary lefthander from Cleveland at the trade deadline for a player to be named later (Baseball Reference tells me it was Jeff Perry). He was decidedly on the downside of his career, posting a brutal 6.70 ERA for the Twins. He was cut by Minnesota in April of 1988, and that would prove to be the end of his major-league career. Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: arguably the greatest left-handed pitcher outside of Randy Flores in the history of baseball. If you want to see something that will never, ever happen again, please check his numbers from 1972: 27-10, 1.97 ERA, 310 Ks, 346.1 innings pitched, 30 complete games (for all you new-fangled stat fiends, his WAR that year was 12.4, which is also absurd). He won the first of his four Cy Youngs that season despite the Phillies' last-place finish. It's a shame that the anti-Felix Hernandez movement wasn't around then to tell the voters the error of their ways. He also was notoriously media-shy, going years without talking to reporters. Where He Is Now: lives in the Durango, Colorado area. Is He On Twitter: no. This is allegedly his MySpace account, and he does have a website. Glorious Randomness: perhaps you've read Orioles slugger Luke Scott's interesting thoughts on Barack Obama's ancestry and said, "Wow, that's some really out-there stuff for a professional baseball player to say." Well, Steve Carlton was quoted in 1994 as saying that the world was controlled by Russia and the United States via low-frequency sound waves, with the assistance of the Elders of Zion, British intelligence, Jewish bankers, etc. Oh, and the AIDS virus was created in a Maryland laboratory to kill homosexuals and African-Americans. Your move, Luke Scott.