Joe Colameco

Joseph Dennis Colameco

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 2", Weight 185 lb.

• School Winthrop University

• Born May 24, 1976 in Burlington, ON CAN

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Biographical Information

Joseph Colameco played in the minor leagues and for Team Canada.

Colameco hit .289/.373/.461 as a college freshman, .304/.436/.511 as a sophomore, .338/.423/.557 as a junior and .373/.450/.627 with 61 runs in 57 games as a senior. He was All-Big South Conference three times and was in the top ten in school history in homers as of 2014. He represented Canada in the 1998 Baseball World Cup, batting .375/.394/.625 with six runs in seven games, fielding .913 in center. He went deep off Taiwan's Shih-Kai Chang. He led Canada in hits (12, one ahead of Warren Sawkiw), runs (one ahead of Greg Mitchell), doubles (3) and slugging (.058 ahead of Colin Dixon).

He began his professional career with the Chillicothe Paints in 1999, and he hit .280/.360/.405 in 73 games that season. He stole 20 bases in 26 tries The New York Yankees then signed him after he hit .356/.444/.578 for the Paints the next year, and he was 3-for-27 with the GCL Yankees that summer. Colameco crushed 10 homers with a .325/.401/.502 batting line in Chillicothe in 2001 (tying David Ferres for 6th in the Frontier League with 64 runs), then he batted .254/.333/.391 with 5 triples for the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings in 2002. He returned to the Paints and hit .244/.330/.341 in 2003, and his professional career ended.

Overall, Colameco hit .280/.363/.422 with 378 hits and 26 homers in 5 seasons in the minor leagues. He stole 51 bases while only being caught 14 times.