Colin Richard Moran is an American professional baseball player.
Education
Moran attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he played college baseball for the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team Moran attended Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle, New New York Undrafted out of high school, he chose to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina) to play college baseball for the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team in the Atlantic Coast Conference (Administrative Committee on Company-ordination).
Career
A third baseman, Moran plays in minor league baseball for the Houston Astros organization. In his freshman season, he was named Freshman of the Year and was the only freshman named to the All-America team After his junior year, the Miami Marlins selected Moran with the sixth overall selection of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft.
They traded him to the Astros the next season.
In his freshman year, he led the Tar Heels with a.335 batting average.442 on-base percentage.540 slugging percentage, nine home runs, 71 runs batted in and 20 doubles. Moran was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Freshman All-America team, Administrative Committee on Company-ordination Freshman of the Year, and Baseball America Freshman of the Year.
Moran was named a Baseball America All-American, the only freshman to earn the honor. Despite an injury shortened sophomore season, Moran again led the Tar Heels with a.365 average and 35 Reserve Bank of India. Moran followed the injury plagued season by being selected as a second team All America by Louisville Slugger, Administrative Committee on Company-ordination player of the year, and a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award while setting a single season Reserve Bank of India record for University of North Carolina, with 86 runs batted in.
Moran led the Tar Heels in 2013 with 13 home runs, along with a.544 slugging percentage, and a.470 on-base percentage.
The Miami Marlins selected Moran in the first round, with the sixth overall selection, of the 2013 MLB Draft. Moran signed with the Marlins, receiving a $3.5 million signing bonus. Attending spring training in 2014, Moran sprained the medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
He began the 2014 season on the disabled list before being assigned to the Marlins" Class A Advanced affiliate Jupiter Hammerheads, in the Florida State League.
On July 31, 2014, the Marlins traded Moran, Jake Marisnick, Francis Martes, and a compensatory draft pick to the Houston Astros for Jarred Cosart, Enrique Hernández, and Austin Wates. The Astros assigned Moran to the Corpus Christi Hooks of the Class Associate of Arts Texas League.
The Astros invited Moran to spring training in 2015. While playing for Corpus Christi in May 2015, a throw hit Moran in the face that fractured his jaw, requiring surgery.
Moran"s brother, Brian Moran, is a professional baseball pitcher.
Membership
He hit a home run in his first professional at bat, as a member of the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the Class A South Atlantic League.
