Geoff McCallum

Geoffrey Mitchell McCallum

• Bats Both, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 185 lb.

• School Stetson University, Black Hawk College
• High School Sir Frederick Banting High School

• Born November 22, 1977 in London, ON CAN

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Biographical Information

Geoff McCallum played in the minor leagues and for Team Canada.

McCallum batted .279/.427/.36 as a college junior and .373/.484/.509 with 66 runs and 20 steals in 63 games as a senior. He hit .295/.377/.354 for the London Werewolves in 2000. He then signed with the Seattle Mariners, and he hit .245/.362/.306 in 32 games for the San Bernardino Stampede in 2001. He also had a .250/.371/.271 batting line for the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks that season. He represented Canada in the 2001 Baseball World Cup, going 1 for 5 with a run while backing up Lee Delfino at second base. He crushed 3 homers with a .258/.311/.341 batting line for the RedHawks in 2002. McCallum then went to the Schaumburg Flyers in 2003, and he hit .255/.319/.295 with 10 steals. He also represented Canada in the 2003 Baseball World Cup, producing at a .333/.391/.381 rate and fielding .962 as Canada's starting shortstop.

The Ontario native improved to .358/.418/.452 with 16 steals in 2004, scoring 86 times in 93 games. He was third in the Northern League in average (after Adam Olow and Ray Brown), 6th in OBP (between Kelley Gulledge and Eddie Pearson), second in runs (11 behind Rick Prieto), 1st in hits (138, 7 ahead of Harry Berrios and Brown) and tied Olow for third with 15 times hit-by-pitch. He was named the loop's All-Star shortstop. He recorded a .276/.368/.366 batting line with 4 homers in 2005.

McCallum then played for Team Canada in the 2005 Baseball World Cup and hit .321/.424/.464 with six RBI in eight games, though he fielded .889 at short. He homered off South Africa's Liall Mauritz. His five errors trailed only Chris Garibaldo. He hit .305/.387/.368 in 2006, and the Florida Marlins signed him. However, McCallum struggled as he only hit .185/.262/.213 for the Jupiter Hammerheads, then he played 61 games with a .276/.353/.332 batting line for the Kansas City T-Bones in 2007. He batted .284/.359/.394 for the T-Bones in 2008, and his professional career ended.

Overall, McCallum hit .283/.359/.355 with 776 hits and 15 homers in 9 seasons as a professional player.