Roger Clemens biography
Roger Clemens, in full William Roger Clemens, (born August 4, 1962, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.), American skilled baseball participant who was probably the most profitable energy pitchers in historical past, thus incomes his nickname, “Rocket.” He was the primary pitcher to win the Cy Young Award seven instances.
Clemens was raised in Texas and performed school baseball for the University of Texas Longhorns earlier than being drafted in 1983 by the Boston Red Sox. After just one yr within the minor leagues, Clemens made his main league debut in 1984. In 1986 he had a document of 24 wins and 4 losses with a league-leading earned run common (ERA) of two.48, and he helped the Red Sox to the American League pennant. He was awarded his first Cy Young Award and was additionally voted the American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP), a uncommon double honour for a pitcher. Clemens went on to win two extra Cy Young Awards (1987 and 1991) whereas enjoying with the Red Sox.
Clemens left Boston to play with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1997 and as soon as once more gained the Cy Young Award after profitable his first profession pitching triple crown by main the AL in wins (21), strikeouts (292), and ERA (2.05). In 1998 he gained a second triple crown (with 20 wins, 271 strikeouts, and a 2.65 ERA) to earn his document fifth profession Cy Young Award. He was traded to the New York Yankees in 1999 and eventually gained a World Series championship that season. He had respectable seasons in 1999 and 2000, however he was again in prime kind in 2001, incomes 20 wins and a sixth Cy Young Award. In 2004 he pitched for the Houston Astros, posting 18 wins and incomes his seventh Cy Young Award (and his first within the National League). After three seasons with the Astros, Clemens returned to the Yankees in 2007, a yr during which he began simply 17 video games and threw a career-low 68 strikeouts. Although he by no means formally retired, 2007 was his last season within the main leagues.
Clemens twice struck out 20 batters in a single recreation (in 1986 and 1996—at the moment no pitcher had reached this document even as soon as) and handed the 4,000-strikeout mark in 2003, the identical yr he picked up his three hundredth profession win. Clemens suffered from shoulder issues in the course of the latter levels of his profession, however he remained a feared pitcher regardless of his age and the decreased velocity of his fastball.
In December 2007 Clemens was prominently talked about within the report on steroid use in baseball by former U.S. senator George J. Mitchell. In it Clemens was alleged to have taken performance-enhancing medication in the course of the 1998, 2000, and 2001 baseball seasons; Clemens denied the allegations. In 2010 he was indicted by a federal grand jury on fees of perjury and making false statements to Congress for allegedly mendacity to a U.S. House of Representatives committee in 2008, when he denied having used performance-enhancing medication. After a mistrial in 2011, Clemens went on trial once more the next yr and was discovered not responsible on all fees.