Former Vanderbilt star David Price will be inducted in the 2025 College Baseball Hall of Fame, becoming the first Commodore player to achieve the honor.
A Murfreesboro native and Blackman High School grad, Price and 20 other former college stars will be honored Feb. 12, 2026, in Overland Park, Kansas, home of the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
In three seasons at Vanderbilt (2005-07), the 6-5, 215-pound Price posted a 22-10 record in 53 appearances (44 starts). He piled up 441 strikeouts — a school record — while allowing 238 hits and 104 walks, producing a 3.23 ERA.
The left-handed pitcher was close to unbeatable during his final season, as Price went 11-1, compiling a 2.63 ERA and 194 strikeouts over 133-1/3 innings. He set school records for both strikeouts and innings pitched that season.
Price was the consensus national player of the year in 2007, as well as a consensus first-team All-American. He won the Dick Howser Trophy, Brooks Wallace Award and Roger Clemens Award and was the also the SEC pitcher of the year.
Thanks in part to Price, the ‘Dores won the SEC Tournament in 2007 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, falling to Michigan in a regional final.
Drafted No. 1 overall by Tampa Bay in 2007, Price debuted in Major League Baseball in 2008 and would eventually play for five teams over a combined 14 seasons.
The 39-year-old Price posted a career record of 157-82 in 2,143-2/3 innings, striking out 2,076 and registering a 3.32 ERA.
Price earned the American League Cy Young Award while with Tampa in 2012, and he was the winning pitcher when Boston captured the World Series in 2018.
Traded to the Dodgers in 2019, Price was a member of the 2020 team that won the World Series. But he didn’t play that season, choosing to opt out of the COVID 19-shortened year.
Price retired following the 2022 season.