Eric Cyr

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Eric Cyr (born February 11, 1979 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian baseball pitcher.

Contents 1 Baseball career 2 Legal problems 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Baseball career

He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 30th round of the 1998 MLB draft. He made his major league debut for the Padres in 2002. He played 5 games that year going 0-1 with an ERA of 10.50 in 6 innings of total work.

He was part of Team Canada in the 2004 Summer Olympics who finished in fourth place.

He was on the 2006 Canadian WBC Roster. Shortly before attending 2006 WBC, he signed with CPBL's Uni-President Lions in Taiwan. He left 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.

After quitting the Uni-President Lions, he started one game for the Quebec Capitales of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball and gave only 4 hits and no walk in eight shut-out innings before quiting the team to join Team Canada at the qualifiers for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

[edit] Legal problems

On January 25, 2001, Cyr sexually assaulted 15-year-old Angela Rogers on an international flight from New Zealand to Los Angeles. Cyr was seated next to Rogers on Qantas Flight 25, and according to Rogers, he passed her a note saying "what's up sexy, you are very cut (sic) it is bad that you are 15 the law is very strick (sic) about that kind of stuff but I may have to do an execption (sic) this time ..." Rogers claimed that Cyr subsequently "tricked" her into meeting him in one of the airplane's lavatories, where they engaged in sex for approximately thirty minutes.^[1] Cyr plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of sexual assault, and served 30 days in jail later that year.^[2] On February 18, 2004, Rogers filed a lawsuit against Cyr, the Padres, the Lake Elsinore Storm (the Padres' minor-league affiliate for which Cyr was playing at the time of the assault), Qantas Airlines, and up to 100 John Does.^[3]

[edit] See also

• Players from Canada in MLB

[edit] References

1. ^ "MLB Pitcher Accused Of Molesting 15-Year-Old On Plane", KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, posted January 22, 2004, accessed May 10, 2006.
2. ^ "Rookie roundup", Pat Coleman, USA TODAY Baseball Weekly, published July 16, 2002, accessed May 10, 2006.
3. ^ U.S. District Court: CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA (Western Division - Los Angeles), CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 2:04-cv-01088-DSF-PLA".

[edit] External links

• MLB Stats