Chris Carter never stopped swinging for the fences.
Chris Carter never stopped hitting the ball over the fence.
The last time the big right-handed slugger played in Major League Baseball was 2019 with the New York Yankees.
But in the years since, Carter has traveled the baseball world and kept hitting home runs.
Recently, he hit the 500th homer of his professional baseball career, from the minor leagues to major, and all the way to Mexico.
Carter, 38 years old, is up to 16 dingers on the season for Campeche in the Mexican League, where he has played on and off since 2019.
Back in 2005, Carter was a 15th-round pick of the White Sox who signed out of Sierra Vista High School in Las Vegas.
In the majors, he played for Oakland, Houston, Milwaukee and the Yanks.
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Carter hit 158 big league home runs. That included a season of 41 with the Brewers in 2016.
A high strikeout rate and poor defense eventually pushed Carter out of MLB's affiliated baseball, and he has mostly stuck it out in Mexico since.
Carter hit 211 homers in minor league baseball, 158 in MLB, two in Hawaiian winter ball and is now up to 133 and counting in Mexico.
Through July 19, Carter has 504 professional homers.
They may not have all come in MLB, but Carter has proven one thing, over and over: He can hit the ball out of the ballpark.
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