Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Colin Richard Moran was born on October 1, 1992, in Port Chester, New York. He is a third baseman in the MLB.

He previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros. Moran attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he played college baseball for the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team. 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. The Astros promoted Moran to the major leagues in 2016. The Astros traded him to the Pirates in a package for Gerrit Cole on January 13, 2018.