Éric Cyr

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Éric Cyr

|image=

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=left

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1979|2|11}}

|birth_place=Montreal, Quebec, Canada

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=June 23

|debutyear=2002

|debutteam=San Diego Padres

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 2

|finalyear=2002

|finalteam=San Diego Padres

|debut2league = CPBL

|debut2date=March 25

|debut2year=2006

|debut2team=Uni-President Lions

|final2league = CPBL

|final2date=August 6

|final2year=2006

|final2team=Uni-President Lions

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–1

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=10.50

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=4

|stat2league = CPBL

|stat21label=Win–loss record

|stat21value=9–5

|stat22label=Earned run average

|stat22value=2.52

|stat23label=Strikeouts

|stat23value=97

|teams=

San Diego Padres ({{mlby|2002}})
Uni-President Lions ({{by|2006}})

|medaltemplates=

{{MedalCountry | {{CAN}}}}

{{MedalBronze| {{by|1997}} Moncton | Team}}

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Éric Cyr (born February 11, 1979) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, as well as in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Uni-President Lions.

Baseball career

Cyr graduated from Edouard Montpetit High School in Montreal and attended Seminole State College in Oklahoma.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 30th round of the 1998 MLB draft and signed with the Padres on May 31, {{Baseball year|1999}}.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Cyr made his professional debut in 1999, splitting time between the Azl Padres and the Idaho Falls Chukars of the rookie leagues. He played with the Single-A Fort Wayne Wizards in {{Baseball year|2000}}.

During the 2000–01 offseason, Cyr played winter ball in Australia. He was suspended at the beginning of the season due to an arrest.

In {{by|2001}}, he played with Lake Elsinore Storm. With the Storm he had a terrific season, turning in a record of 7–4 with a 1.61 ERA in 21 appearances (16 starts) and striking out 131 batters while only walking 24.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

He was promoted to the Double-A Mobile BayBears in {{Baseball year|2002}}, where he was 4–6 with a 3.24 ERA in 14 starts before being promoted to Triple-A Portland.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

He made his Major League Baseball debut for the Padres on June 23, 2002, against the New York Yankees, working one scoreless inning in relief. He played in 5 games that year, going 0–1 with an ERA of 10.50 in 6 innings of total work.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Cyr was claimed off waivers by the Anaheim Angels on March 5, {{Baseball year|2003}} and pitched briefly for the Angels Double-A team in Arkansas before the Angeles waived him and he was claimed by the Cincinnati Reds, who sent him to Chattanooga. After a short stint there, he was returned to the Angels.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Cyr pitched for both Arkansas and the Salt Lake Stingers in {{Baseball year|2004}} before leaving the Angels to take part in the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of Team Canada.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

He also pitched for Salt Lake in {{Baseball year|2005}}, accumulating a record of 5–5, 5.64 in 38 appearances, 9 starts.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

He was on the {{Baseball year|2006}} Canadian WBC Roster. Shortly before attending the 2006 WBC, he signed with CPBL's Uni-President Lions in Taiwan. He departed the Uni-President Lions in September 2006, leaving a record of 9 wins (including 2 shutouts), 5 losses, and an ERA of 2.52, a WHIP of 1.23 in his 128.2 innings during the 2006 CPBL season.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

After finishing with the Uni-President Lions, he started one game for the Quebec Capitales of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball giving up only 4 hits and no walks in eight shut-out innings before quitting the team to join Team Canada at the qualifiers for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

In {{Baseball year|2007}}, he signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, compiling a record of 6–3 with a 3.18 ERA in 16 starts for the Jacksonville Suns before being promoted to the Las Vegas 51s, where he was 3–6 with a 5.56 ERA in 12 games, 11 as a starter.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

He played winter ball in Venezuela during the off-season and signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers for {{Baseball year|2008}},[http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071211&content_id=2323214&vkey=hotstove2007&fext=.jsp MLB.com article on Rangers signing minor league free agents] but was released before the start of the season and signed with the Seattle Mariners; he was assigned to their Triple-A affiliate, the Tacoma Rainiers, but was released on May 2, 2008. After a stint pitching with Quebec of the Canadian American Baseball league, where he was named player of the week ending on May 25, 2008, he was again picked up by the Dodgers and assigned to the Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino and later promoted to the Las Vegas 51s. He became a free agent at the end of the season.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Early in 2009, he announced that he was planning on joining the Sherbrooke Expos a senior team in the Ligue de baseball senior élite du Québec.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

{{As of|December 2011}}, he was married to alpine skier Sara-Maude Boucher. Their son, Simon-Xavier, was born in 2008.{{cite news |last1=Trudeau |first1=Patrick |title=Sara-Maude Boucher: l'ex-olympienne revient au bercail |url=https://www.lerefletdulac.com/2011/12/22/sara-maude-boucher-lex-olympienne-revient-au-bercail/ |access-date=3 September 2021 |work=Le Reflet du Lac |date=22 December 2011 |language=fr-CA}} He has another daughter with his first wife named Chloé Cyr.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Sexual assault conviction and jail

In April 2001, Cyr turned himself into the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was charged with having had sex with a 15-year-old girl while on a Qantas flight from Australia to Los Angeles that January. In December 2001, he pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Central District of California to a misdemeanor charge of sexual contact with another without consent. He was sentenced to a year of probation and given credit for thirty days served in jail.{{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=John |title=Former Storm pitcher pleads guilty in sex case |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-former-storm-pitcher-pleads-guilty-in-sex-case-2001dec27-story.html |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=San Diego Union-Tribune |date=27 December 2001}} In 2004, the woman, then 18, filed suit against Cyr, Qantas, the San Diego Padres and the Lake Elsinore Storm.{{cite news |title=Former Padres, Storm player named in rape suit |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-former-padres-storm-player-named-in-rape-suit-2004jan23-story.html |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=San Diego Union-Tribune |agency=North County Times Wire Services |date=23 January 2004}}