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.
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, .
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 .
During the 2000–01 offseason, Cyr played winter ball in Australia. 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.
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.
, he was married to alpine skier Sara-Maude Boucher. Their son, Simon-Xavier, was born in 2008. He has another daughter with his first wife named Chloé Cyr.
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. In 2004, the woman, then 18, filed suit against Cyr, Qantas, the San Diego Padres and the Lake Elsinore Storm.