An American professional player Collin Mchugh plays in Major League Baseball (MLB), representing the team, Houston Astros as a pitcher. Also, he played for the New York Mets and Colorado Rockies prior to the Astros. Further, he was drafted in 2008 as the 18th-round pick by the New York Mets.
Collin Mchugh was born on June 19, 1987, in Naperville, Illinois. Further, he was raised in Lilburn, Georgia, where he graduated from Providence Christian Academy. Collins is American by nationality and is white in ethnicity. Also, MacHugh was born under the star sign, Gemini.
Collin Mchugh is married to Ashley Buzzy McHugh, a professional graphic designer. The couple met for the first time when both of them were attending the same private, Catholic school in Atlanta. During the time of their first meeting, both of them were seniors in high school.
Collin McHugh and Ashley dated for a short time before the lovebird decided to tie their wedlock on October 3rd, 2009 in Athens, Georgia. During the time of their wedding, the couple was just 22 years old.
According to the sources, Collin proposed his love in the middle of the highway saying "Be my Beyonce" and she accepted it. Further, the couple has a baby boy named Elder who was born in December 2015.
In one of Collin's wife's interviews, she remembered the time when they met for the first time. She said:
"I really thought he was a joke. I told him so, very frankly, on a few occasions. I took myself very seriously. I wore black. I made paintings. I listened to Bright Eyes, for god’s sake. Of course, I had an embarrassingly secret crush on him."
On September 13, 2015, Ashley made a post on her Instagram account, revealing the fact that all of their wedding pictures were stolen on September 30th, 2013, three days before their 4th anniversary.
Luckily, the couple had saved the critical shot that Ashley was able to share on her Instagram account. She expressed her happiness after finding a picture, saying: "It's never been an easy relationship, but, just like finding the picture, it's always been worth it."
Ashley is not only famous as the wife of Collin McHugh but also has her own identity. She is a designer by profession whose workspace is based out of the city. Additionally, she is the owner of her own business; Ashley Buzz Lettering and Press.
Her company focuses on weddings and events and provides design products like invitations and menus. Apart from her design business, she also runs her calligraphy workshops. Likewise, Ashley also runs her blog parallelly with her business. With the help of the blog, she updates her readers and fans about her work and life.
In the most recent post of her blog, she wrote "I am an honest, open person. I strive to be honest about the struggles of my lifestyle and I enjoy hearing other people’s stories. I know that openness can be rare – and especially in some industries it can feel like people are so closed off (or competitive), that it’s impossible to make a genuine connection. I don’t want to be that way – I like connections."
Collin McHugh is one of the best players of the Houston Astros. Further, playing for this long he has accumulated a career earning of $16,754,315. Playing 8 seasons in the MLB, Collin has amassed a mouth-watering net worth of over $8,000,000.
As per his current contract, McHugh earned $5,800,000 as an average annual salary from the Astros in 2023. He will earn a salary of $1 million in the season 2023-24.
Earning Details:
YEAR | TEAM | SALARY |
2012 | New York Mets | $480,000 |
2013 | New York Mets | $77,650 |
2013 | New York Mets | $66,939 |
2014 | Houston Astros | $434,426 |
2015 | Houston Astros | $516,300 |
2016 | Houston Astros | $529,000 |
2017 | Houston Astros | $3,850,000 |
2018 | Houston Astros | $5,000,000 |
2019 | Houston Astros | $5,800,000 |
TOTAL | $16,754,315 |
Collin McHugh signed a 1 year/$5,800,000 deal with the Houston Astros on JAN 11 2019. Further, his annual salary makes him the 11th highest-paid player of the Houston Astros whereas Zack Greinke is the highest-paid, having an annual salary of $34,500,000.
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Apart from career earnings, he also earns an additional amount of money from endorsement deals and sponsorship. In particular, he has promoted products of different brands including PF Flyers, Far Niente, New Balance, and many more.
Likewise, he owns a Honda Accord car. Similarly, his other important asset includes a house that he regularly flaunts on his social account. Out of many, in one of his posts on Instagram, he posted a picture of his house on the occasion of Christmas, captioning "We might not get a white Christmas this year, but I got my snowy house picture and I built a snowman with my son...so I’ll live."
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