White pitched in seven different organizations over nine professional seasons. He has three stints in the majors:he pitched three games for the Boston Red Sox in 2003 before being traded to the Seattle Mariners,for whom he pitched three more games in the same season. In 2005,he pitched one game for the Washington Nationals.
In seven major-league games,White pitched 92⁄3 innings with an 0-2 record. He allowed 17 hits, eight walks and 18 runs, for a 16.76 ERA and a WHIP of 2.59.
White was a non-roster invitee to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2007. In spring training, he only allowed one earned run in 71⁄3 innings. However, he failed to make the major league roster and was optioned to the Las Vegas 51s, the Dodgers Triple-A team.[3] He was 2-4 with a 3.83 ERA in 40 games out of the bullpen for the 51s during the 1st half of the 2007 Pacific Coast League season.
On June 25, 2007, he asked for, and was granted, his release from the 51s so that he could sign a contract to play baseball in Japan. He signed with the Yokohama BayStars.[4] He was released on August 15, 2008.
In 2003, White purchased 50 acres (200,000m2) of mountain real estate in Cummington, Massachusetts from his aunt for $50,000, giving her the money she needed to enter a nursing home. His original intention was to build his home, but he found the land to be too hard. When he called a surveyor out to inspect the land, the surveyor found that the land was a type of mica schist estimated to be about 400 million years old. Estimates have placed the low estimate of the find at 24 million tons. At current prices (he has been selling the stone for over $100/ton), it is estimated to be worth around $2.5 billion, minus extraction costs.
White has begun a small-scale extraction operation, Swift River Stone, and made $600,000 in 2006. He has expressed interest in selling the land, and believes he will get "several million dollars."
When a story broke on most sports news outlets about him on February 28, 2007, some of his teammates in spring training started referring to him in the clubhouse as "Mr. Billionaire." White put the land up for sale in 2009, but was actively working on it in 2013.[7][8][9]
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