Former Hewitt-Trussville star Steele Hall is officially a major league baseball player.<\/p>\n
The Cincinnati Reds announced Friday they had signed the No. 9 overall pick<\/a>. He signed for $5.75 million, according to MLB.com.<\/p>\n Hall, who started his high school career at Daphne before transferring to Hewitt-Trussville prior to his sophomore season, was named Alabama\u2019s Mr. Baseball in June by the Alabama Sports Writers Association.<\/a><\/p>\n The Class 7A Player of the Year hit .484 for the Huskies this spring with eight home runs, 14 doubles, 35 RBIs and 46 runs scored. He also was the MaxPreps Alabama Player of the Year.<\/p>\n Hall is the earliest pick straight from an Alabama high school since pitcher Braxton Garrett from Florence to the Miami Marlins at No. 7 in 2016. The only other higher picks straight from an Alabama high school in the main summer draft are shortstop Condredge Holloway from Lee-Huntsville to the Montreal Expos at No. 4 in 1971 and pitcher Rick James from Coffee-Florence to the Chicago Cubs at No. 6 in 1965.<\/p>\n Hall, who reclassified, is still only 17<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Hewitt-Trussville star Steele Hall is officially a major league baseball player. The Cincinnati Reds announced Friday they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,11677,535,50,4259,3263,11678,19,4,1586,34260,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-186564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bbh","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-cincinnatireds","13":"tag-high-school-sports","14":"tag-high-schoool-baseball","15":"tag-major-league-baseball","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-mlb-draft","18":"tag-pro-draft","19":"tag-reds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114877071800460284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}