Matt White (baseball)

Matthew Joseph White (born August 19, 1977 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He made news in 2007 not with his pitching, but for his possession of a potentially-lucrative stone quarry in his native Massachusetts.

Baseball career

White attended Wahconah Regional High School in Dalton, Massachusetts and played his college baseball at Clemson. He was first drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the amateur draft. He has been through the Rule V Draft twice. In , he was drafted by the Boston Red Sox. In , he was drafted by the Colorado Rockies.

White has pitched in seven different organizations over the past nine 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 , he pitched one game for the Washington Nationals.

In seven major-league games, White has pitched 9 2/3 innings. He is 0-2, and has allowed 17 hits, eight walks and 18 runs, for a 16.76 ERA and a WHIP of 2.59.

In in the minor leagues, he played for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, where he played 38 games, starting 13 of them. He had a record of 7-9 with a 3.58 ERA and 69 strikeouts. He also played for the Navegantes del Magallanes in the Venezuelan Winter League, where he went 2-4 in ten starts with a 3.40 ERA and 34 strikeouts.

White was a non-roster invitee to the Los Angeles Dodgers in . In spring training, he only allowed...
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