Juan Colato

Juan Colato Calderon

• Bats Both, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 195 lb.

• School Grand Canyon University, South Mountain Community College

• Born October 8, 1998 in San Salvador El Salvador

Biographical Information

Juan Colato has played for the Salvadoran national team.

In the 2017 Central American Games, he debuted against Nicaragua. Hitting leadoff, he had two hits off former major leaguer Wilton López and also had a walk and a steal. He had four hits against Costa Rica the next game. He finished the round-robin at .476/.560/.762 with four doubles, four steals (not caught) and five runs in five games, outperforming numerous players with MLB experience including MLB veteran Cheslor Cuthbert. The teenager finished second in average (.024 behind Darrel Campbell), first in hits (ten, one ahead of Gerald Chin, Edgar Muñoz and Andrés Aguilar, all of whom had US pro experience), first in slugging (.062 ahead of Chin), first in doubles (one ahead of Gabriel Montenegro), 4th in OBP, first in total bases (16, two ahead of Chin), tied Aguilar for the most steals, second in OBP (.024 behind Campbell) and first in OPS (100 ahead of Chin). In the Bronze Medal Game versus Guatemala, he drew a lead-off walk from Alejandro Amézquita but was stranded then the game was rained out in the second; both teams were awarded Bronze Medals.

Coming to the US for junior college, he hit .383 and was runner-up Arizona Community College Athletic Conference MVP while having a 4.00 GPA but missed most of 2019 due to injury. Transferring to Grand Canyon, he hit .367/.419/.620 to open 2020 and was nationally in the top 10 in hits and total bases when the season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. He fell to .278/.355/.448 in 2021 with 9 steals in 12 tries and was still 10th in the Western Athletic Conference in RBI (40). As a senior, he produced at a .379/.417/.589 clip with 49 runs and 16 doubles in 55 games. He was All-Conference at third base.