Carson Fulmer stood wide-eyed in the home dugout late Friday afternoon, his white shirt arranged just so beneath his white White Sox jersey.
He also wore a $3,470,600 smile — the value of signing bonus on the contract the team's first-round draft pick out of Vanderbilt signed earlier in the day — and some nerves as he gripped a baseball.
The right-handed pitcher chatted with Sox legend Harold Baines and exchanged hellos with Hall of Fame Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer.
Along the way, Fulmer met, in passing, White Sox ace Chris Sale, who hails from Fulmer's hometown of Lakeland, Fla.