Education
Everts attended Cypress Falls High School, where he pitched alongside Scott Kazmir.
Everts attended Cypress Falls High School, where he pitched alongside Scott Kazmir.
He was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the first round (fifth overall) of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft. He was rated as a top-100 prospect by Baseball America prior to the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Everts pitched in the Expos and Washington Nationals farm system until he signed with a major league contract with the New York Mets prior to the 2010 season.
He was sent to Associate of Arts prior to the start of the season, and was designated for assignment on April 11.
In 2010, he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays to complete a previous trade which sent Jorge Padilla to New York Mets" American Automobile Association affiliate, Buffalo Bisons. Everts has not pitched in a minor league game since May 15th, 2013 and has not signed with any franchise since the end of the 2013 season.