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Chris CarTer 22
OUTFiELDER
Height/Weight: 6-4 / 244 Bats/Throws: Right / Right
Birthdate: December 18, 1986 Opening Day Age: 24
Birthplace/Resides: Redwood City, California / Las Vegas, Nevada
Major League Service: 28 days
Obtained: Acquired from the Arizona Diamondbacks with pitchers Brett Anderson,
Dana Eveland and Greg Smith and outfielders Aaron Cunningham and Carlos
Gonzalez for pitchers Dan Haren and Connor Robertson, December 14, 2007
Contract Status: First year of a one-year contract through 2011
CAREER HiGHLiGHTS
Made his Major League debut with Oakland in 2010 after batting .284 (713 for 2512) with 149 home
runs and 507 RBI in 673 minor league games in six seasons…added 172 doubles and 12 triples for a
.540 slugging percentage and his 358 walks fueled a .380 on-base percentage…was ranked as the A’s
second best prospect by Baseball America following the 2010 season…set an Oakland record for consecutive
hitless bats to start a career (0-for-33) before going 13 for 38 (.342) over his final 13 games in
his debut…has topped 25 home runs and 90 RBI in each of his last four minor league seasons…named
to the Pacific Coast League Postseason All-Star Team in 2010 when he tied for ninth in the minors in
home runs (31)…was named the A’s Organizational Player of the Year in 2008 and 2009…was named
Texas League Player of the Year in 2009 and led all of Minor League Baseball with 179 hits…was also
named to the TL Midseason and Postseason All-Star Teams and played for the United States in the All-
Star Futures Game at St. Louis…was originally a 15th round pick of the Chicago White Sox in 2005 and
was traded to Arizona on Dec. 3, 2007 before being dealt to the A’s along with five others players in the
Dan Haren trade 11 days later…was a South Atlantic League Postseason All-Star in 2007 and a Pioneer
League All-Star in 2006.
2010 HiGHLiGHTS
The A’s two-time Organizational Player of the Year made his Major League debut in 2010…after setting
an Oakland record for consecutive hitless at bats to start a career (0-for-33), went 13 for 38 (.342)
with three home runs and seven RBI over his final 13 games…batted .186 in 24 games overall during
two stints with Oakland…hit .389 in Oakland and .115 on the road…was 1 for 14 (.071) with runners in
scoring position…made 22 starts in left field and one at designated hitter…also flew out in one pinch hitting
appearance…was recalled from Sacramento Aug. 9 and made his ML debut that night at Seattle…
started in left field and went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts…started each of his first six games with the
A’s in left field and went 0 for 19 with nine strikeouts before he was optioned back to Sacramento Aug.
16…struck out in each of those six games to match the Oakland record for consecutive games with a
strikeout to start a career (Travis Buck, 2007; Brooks Conrad, 2008)…returned to Oakland Sept. 14 following
the conclusion of Sacramento’s season…extended his career opening hitless streak to 33 at bats
before singling off Scott Linebrink to lead off the seventh inning Sept. 20 against Chicago…it broke the
Oakland record of 25 consecutive hitless at bats to start a career (set by Bill McNulty July 9, 1969-Sept.
30, 1972) and was the longest in the majors by a non-pitcher since Vic Harris had a 0-for-36 streak with
Texas in 1972…it was the sixth longest hitless streak in Oakland history and was the longest since Jose
Canseco set the record with a 0-for-40 streak in 1986 (Aug. 8-23)…hit safely in all six of his games in
the Coliseum, including Sept. 22 against Chicago when he belted his first Major League home run, a
solo shot off Edwin Jackson in the third inning…extended his road hitless streak to an Oakland-record
38 at bats before singling in the fifth inning Sept. 29 at Los Angeles…broke the previous mark of 34 by
Jermaine Dye in 2003…homered twice in the season-ending four-game series at Seattle, going 5 for 12
(.417) with five RBI and three walks…was named the A’s second best prospect by Baseball America
following the season…was also tabbed as the Best Power Hitter in the A’s organization in the magazines’
Best Tools survey for prospects following the 2010 season.
SACRAMEnTO: Batted .258 with 31 home runs and 94 RBI in 125 games with Sacramento…the
batting average was the lowest mark of his career but the home runs were second best…has at least 25
home runs and 93 RBI in each of his last four seasons…was named to the Pacific Coast League Postseason
All-Star Team as an outfielder after ranking fourth in the league in home runs and fifth in RBI,
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