Zack Gelof

He batted .292/.370/.403 with 9 doubles (10th in the league), 4 triples (3rd), and 13 stolen bases (9th) in 15 attempts.

Gelof played college baseball at Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for three seasons, starting every game the team played, and batting .316/.396/.478 in 137 games.

As the 60th pick overall, he was the sixth-highest draft pick in Delaware history.

He signed with the team on July 24, 2021, and received a $1,157,400 signing bonus.

In 2021 Gelof was assigned to the Rookie-level Arizona Complex League Athletics to start his professional career, where he played in one game.

He was then promoted to the Low-A Stockton Ports, for whom he batted .298/.393/.548.

He finished the season with the Las Vegas Aviators of the Triple-A West, where while nearly six years younger than the average player in the league and only two months after playing college baseball, he batted 7-for-12 with 6 RBIs.

With the three teams combined, in 2021 he batted .333/.422/.565 in 138 at bats with seven home runs and 13 stolen bases in 15 attempts, while playing third base.

MLB.com ranked him as the A's 7th-best prospect, and the 87th-best prospect in baseball, and Fangraphs ranked him as the club's 2nd-best prospect.

In 2022 Gelof ran the fastest 30-yard sprint in the A’s farm system in the spring.

He missed almost seven weeks with a torn labrum and subluxed left (non-throwing) shoulder suffered in May when he dove for a ground ball, but playing for the Midland RockHounds of the Double–A Texas League he hit .271/.356/.438 with 13 home runs and nine stolen bases in 11 attempts in 354 at bats over 83 games.

Zachary Dunn Gelof (born October 19, 1999) is an American professional baseball second baseman for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He played college baseball for the Virginia Cavaliers.

He was selected by the Athletics in the second round of the 2021 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut for them in 2023.

Gelof played for Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Gelof is a son of Kelly and Adam Gelof, both of whom are attorneys.

He is Jewish.

His younger brother Jake Gelof played baseball as a third baseman for the University of Virginia, was drafted in the second round of the 2023 draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers, and now plays in the Dodgers organization; Jake was Zack's teammate in both high school and college.

Gelof grew up in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he attended Hebrew school in the Seaside Jewish Community.

He attended Cape Henlopen High School.

Gelof served as Class President for each of his four years.

He played every game of the high school baseball team's four seasons in his years in high school.

In his senior year, playing shortstop and pitching, he batted .465 and led the state in hits (35), runs (37), and home runs (7) and was 28-for-28 in stolen bases, along with 17 RBIs.

As a pitcher he was 4-0 with a 1.30 ERA, and 34 strikeouts in 26 innings, and threw an 87 miles per hour fastball.

He also played soccer for the high school, and finished his career as the leading goal scorer in the State of Delaware for his four-year career span 2015-18 (61 goals; 16 assists), and was four-time All-Conference, three-time All-State, and as a senior was named Conference Player of the Year.

He graduated with a 4.02 GPA.

He was named 2018 Delaware Gatorade Player of Year, Delaware Baseball Coaches Player of the Year, Delaware News Journal First Team All-State Shortstop, Perfect Game/Rawlings 2018 honorable mention All American and 1st Team Northeast All Region.

He finished his high school baseball career as Delaware's all-time leader in runs scored (103) and stolen bases (81-for-81), and second in career hits (105), and was a two-time Henlopen Conference Player of Year as a shortstop and a pitcher.

He was selected in the 38th round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft by the Cleveland Indians, but Gelof opted not to sign with the team.

During the summer after his senior year Gelof played summer collegiate baseball for the Brockton Rox of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, and played third base.

As a freshman in 2019, he started all 56 games at third base and batted .313/.377/.396 with 16 stolen bases (10th in the ACC) in 19 attempts, and six sacrifice flies (3rd).

He then played for the 2019 Kalamazoo Growlers in the collegiate summer Northwoods League, and batted .349/.426/.490 with three triples (6th in the league) and 22 steals (9th) in 24 attempts, while playing 26 games at third base and two games at shortstop.

As a sophomore in 2020, Gelof batted .349/.469/.746 (leading the ACC) with 24 runs scored (leading the ACC; 4th in the NCAA), six doubles (7th), two triples (4th), five home runs (6th), 18 RBIs (8th), and 13 walks (10th) in 18 games at third base before the season was cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic.

He was named a Collegiate Baseball Second Team All-American, and the third-best third baseman in D1Baseball’s 2020 Top-30 Power Rankings.

He played for the High Point-Thomasville HiToms of the collegiate summer Coastal Plain League after the season, batting .364/.442/.636.

Gelof was named both Collegiate Baseball and NCBWA 2021 First Team Preseason All-American, and both Baseball America and Perfect Game Second Team Preseason All-American, as well as the D1Baseball No. 5 preseason third baseman.

As a junior in 2021 Gelof batted .312/.393/.485 and led the ACC in hits (81), as he also had 50 runs (7th), 18 doubles (4th), 126 total bases (6th), and 12 stolen bases in 13 attempts.

He was named second team All-ACC.

Virginia played in the 2021 College World Series, and he was named the third baseman on the All-Tournament Team after hitting .583.

Gelof was selected in the second round of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft by the Oakland Athletics.