Matt White (minor league pitcher)

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Matt White
Pitcher
Born: (1978-08-13) August 13, 1978 (age 46)
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Men's baseball
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World Junior Baseball Championship
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Matthew Edward White (born August 13, 1978) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

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Career

White attended Waynesboro Area High School from 1993 to 1996 [1] where he played four varsity sports and had a 0.79 earned run average as a baseball player. [2] During his senior year he posted a 10–1 record with an 0.63 ERA, allowing 21 hits and 37 baserunners. [3] Following the season he was named the high school baseball player of the year by USA Today , [4] Baseball America , the National High School Baseball Coaches Association [2] and Gatorade. [5] [6] [7]

After initially planning to attend Georgia Tech, [8] White was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 1996 amateur draft, [9] but his agent Scott Boras found a long-ignored provision in MLB's Collective Bargaining Agreement that allowed White to become a free agent after the Giants failed to offer him a written contract in the required 15-day time allotted. [2] [10] He received a $10.2 million signing bonus (equivalent to $19.8 million in 2023) in 1996 with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. [11] [12] It was the largest bonus ever given to an amateur player. [2]

Before even making his professional debut with the Hudson Valley Renegades in 1997, Baseball America ranked him the sixth-best prospect in baseball. [13] Shoulder and back injuries limited White to 122 minor league games during his career. He never played in the major leagues and retired in 2006 with a career mark of 35–47 and a 4.64 earned run average. [8] [14] [15] [16]

White was the only high school player invited to try out for the United States national baseball team for the 1996 Summer Olympics [2] but was the last player cut from the team. [17] He was selected to the 2000 Sydney Olympic team but suffered an injury prior to the games and was forced to return without participating. [8]

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