Okay, perhaps that headline is a little misleading, but it’s actually true.

Tampa Bay Rays All-Star pitcher David Price will visit the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy in Compton on Saturday, May 17 at 11:00 a.m.

David Price

This will be Price’s first visit to the Academy to meet some of the youth baseball and softball Academy players. The visit coincides with the Tampa Bay Rays being in Southern California for a four-game series against the Angels beginning tonight.

Price, a native of Murfreesboro, TN, was the 2012 American League Cy Young Award winner. That same year, he was the Rays’ nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award for sportsmanship, community involvement and contributions to the team. The 28-year-old hard-throwing left-hander is a three-time AL All-Star and won the 2010 Warren Spahn Award presented to the top left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was selected the 2007 College Baseball Player of the Year at Vanderbilt University.

The Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy is located on the campus of El Camino College – Compton Center (west of football field) at 901 East Artesia Blvd. in Compton and is part of Major League Baseball’s Urban Youth Initiative.

Encompassing more than 20 acres on the campus of El Camino College – Compton Center, the Academy is a state-of-the-art facility featuring four fields, including a show field complete with scoreboard, grandstand seating, dugouts and lights, an auxiliary field, softball field, youth field and a 12,000 square-foot clubhouse consisting of a weight room, locker room, and other training facilities, as well as batting cages and pitching mounds. The Academy operates on a year-round basis, offering free baseball and softball instruction, as well as clinics to youth throughout Southern California.

MLB is committed to providing opportunities to play baseball and softball to young people in urban America through the establishment of the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academies. In addition to the first Academy in Compton, MLB has established and is operating the Houston Astros MLB Urban Youth Academy and the New Orleans MLB Urban Youth Academy at Wesley Barrow Stadium. MLB has also announced plans to build academies in Cincinnati, OH, Hialeah, FL, and Philadelphia, PA.

For additional information regarding the MLB Urban Youth Academy, or any other upcoming clinics and seminars, please call the hotline at (310) 763-3479, or visit the website at: www.MLB.com/UrbanYouthAcademy