Playing for the school's varsity baseball team for three years, he recorded a .392 batting average and 24 career stolen bases.
As a freshman at Kansas in 2003, Price had a .319 batting average, a .400 on-base percentage (OBP), and a .366 SLG, with eleven doubles.
The New York Mets chose Price with the eighteenth pick of the 18th round of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft.
Price began his professional career with the Brooklyn Cyclones of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League, where he batted .000 with one run scored.
[3] On June 30, 2011, Price was named an assistant coach for the Kansas Jayhawks baseball team.