Lance McCullers Jr. is an American professional baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his debut in MLB in May 2015.
He won the World Series with the Astros in 2017 and was an All-Star the same year.
In 2016, McCullers Jr.'s yearly salary was estimated to be around $516,700. He received $2,450,000 after signing a one-year contract with the Houston Astros, with an annual average salary of $2,450,000.
In 2015, he collected $330,013 and $516,700 in 2016 as an annual salary. However, McCullers Jr.'s net worth is still being calculated.
McCullers plays in Houston Astros with his teammates, Alex Bregman, Bryan Abreu. Alex's net worth was estimated at $5.5 million back in 2017.
McCullers Jr. is happily married to his longtime girlfriend Kara Kilfoile on December 19, 2015. The duo can be seen together on social media and has been together since 2012.
She is supporting a wife and has shared snaps of some exciting moments on social networking sites.
The husband and wife enjoyed their honeymoon in Italy, visiting, Rome, Amalfi Coast, Florence, and Venice. McCullers proposed his wife in Paris getting down on one knee and asked Kara to marry him in front of the Eiffel Tower. They both are pet lovers.
Kilfoile achieved her master's degree in speech-language pathology from the University of South Florida.
He lost his good friend and teammate, Jose Fernandez on September 25, 2016
Lance McCullers Jr. was born as Lance Graye McCullers Jr. on October 2, 1993, in Tampa, Florida. He was born to his father Lance McCullers and mother, Stacie McCullers. His father played in Major League Baseball from 1985 to 1992.
McCullers Jr. completed his primary education from the Jesuit High School in Tampa, Florida and named as the 2012 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year.
Lance Graye McCullers Jr. was drafted by the Houston Astros in the first round, with the 41st overall selection, of the 2012 MLB Draft. He then signed with the Astros, with the $2.5 million signing bonus.
McCullers Jr. pitched for the Quad Cities River Bandits of the Class A Midwest River Bandits with whom he won the Midwest League Championship. McCullers Jr. was promoted to the Lancaster JetHawks of the Class A-Advanced California League for the 2014 season.
Later, Houston Astros promoted to the Fresno Grizzlies of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League on 14th May 2015. He then made his major league debut in the same year of May.
On May 2017, McCullers Jr. claimed his first career American League Pitcher of the Month Award. He earned his first career save in a 4-0 victory over the New York Yankees on October 21, 2017.
McCullers Jr. is the member of the team that won the Series in the seventh game for the first title in franchise history.