While the Marlins have made Pat White an offer to try his hand at minor league baseball, the former Dolphins quarterback and one of his associates are sending out strong signals that baseball is only a backup option if he can't work his way back into football.
"I have unfinished business left on the football field," White told 640 AM host Orlando Alzugaray.
Said White's financial advisor, Richard Griffin II: "His first priority is football."
White, who turns 27 next month, was a fourth-round draft pick by the Angels in 2004 and picked up by the Kansas City Royals organization after the Dolphins released him in 2010. But the left-handed hitting outfielder never made it out of the fall instructional league for the Royals and has not played in a sanctioned game since high school when Baseball America named him a second-team All-American.
That hasn't diminished White's desire to get back on the baseball diamond, and the Marlins are willing to give him a chance, at least at the minor league level. But Griffin said White is also considering a two-year contract offer from the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League and has spoken to representatives for at least eight NFL teams. Griffin also said that White intends to spend next month -- when spring training starts up in Jupiter -- working with a quarterbacks coach in San Diego.
"Things are very premature as to whether he'll report to spring training," Griffin said. "More than likely, Pat will probably spend next month in San Diego. He's definitely looking to get back into the NFL. I don't want to step on the Marlins' toes, but things are really on hold right now."
Pat White is the missing piece to send the Marlins to the World Series. GET HIM SIGNED!!!
Posted by: The Local Seth | January 25, 2013 at 04:17 PM
Other thsn washing out of Instructional League, he hasn't played since high school (TEN YEARS) and views baseball strictly as a backup??? Yeah he's got Marlins Bargain Basement Bin written all over him.
Bunch of lying, thieving weasels.
Posted by: Dionysus Thelxnoe | January 25, 2013 at 05:07 PM
Marlins will scout Vanna White next
Posted by: samsonblows.com | January 25, 2013 at 07:12 PM
how bout Slappy White makin a cumback
Posted by: Fred G. Sanford | January 25, 2013 at 08:03 PM
WE CAN RUN THE WILDCAT!!!
BOYCOTT...BOYCOTT...BOYCOTT!!!!!
Posted by: thejuandiggler | January 26, 2013 at 11:47 AM
Hey Dionysus,have you already trademarked the "Triple B Marlins" already? I think you should. It's pretty good.
Posted by: Flav C. | January 26, 2013 at 12:09 PM