Joe McCarthy

Joseph Edward McCarthy Jr. (born February 23, 1994) is an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants. He played college baseball for the University of Virginia. The Tampa Bay Rays selected McCarthy in the fifth round of the 2015 MLB draft, and traded him to the Giants in 2019. McCarthy made his MLB debut in 2020. Amateur career McCarthy graduated from Scranton High School in Scranton, Pennsylvania. After his senior year, in 2012, The Scranton Times-Tribune named him their Male High School Athlete of the Year. McCarthy attended the University of Virginia, and played college baseball for the Virginia Cavaliers. In 2014, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League. His 2015 season debut was delayed by back surgery. In three seasons at Virginia, he played in 162 games with a .294 batting average, 12 home runs, 25 stolen bases in 27 attempts, and 111 RBIs, with 113 walks and 86 strikeouts. Professional career