Darryl George

Quick Facts

• Full name: Darryl Roy George
• Born: 14 March 1993, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
• Height / weight: 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) / 106 kg (235 lb)
• Bats / throws: Right / Right
• Position: Third base (also shortstop and first base)
• Melbourne Aces number: 14 – known as “Mr. Ace”
• Junior club: Sunshine Baseball Club

Biography

Darryl George has built one of the most enduring careers in modern Australian baseball. He debuted for the Melbourne Aces as an 18-year-old during the 2011–12 Australian Baseball League season and has since become the franchise leader in games played, hits, home runs, doubles, runs batted in, runs scored and stolen bases. The Aces announced his return for the 2026–27 season, his 14th full season with the club.

George developed through Sunshine Baseball Club in Melbourne’s west and signed a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays in June 2011, spending four seasons in the Rays’ system across the Gulf Coast League, Princeton, Hudson Valley and Bowling Green. He was named Most Valuable Player of the Hudson Valley Renegades in 2013 and selected as a New York–Penn League mid-season All-Star the same year. He continued his professional career in Japan, joining the Orix Buffaloes organisation for the 2017 season and batting .278 across 75 games in the NPB Western League.

Career Highlights

George’s defining individual campaign came in the Melbourne Aces’ 2020–21 season, when he won the Helms Award as the Australian Baseball League’s most valuable player and was named the league’s Hitting Champion after batting .331. In January 2021 he produced the modern ABL’s single-game RBI record, driving in 10 runs with two grand slams against the Brisbane Bandits. He was part of Melbourne’s consecutive Claxton Shield championship teams in 2019–20 and 2020–21, and in December 2024 he hit his 40th career home run for the club to become the Aces’ all-time home run leader.

Team Australia

George has represented Australia at the 2019 and 2024 WBSC Premier12 touDarryl Georgernaments and the 2023 World Baseball Classic, where he played all five games as Australia reached the quarter-finals for the first time in the nation’s history. A difficult third-base double play he turned against Cuba at the Tokyo Dome was later ranked by the WBSC as its No. 1 baseball play of 2024.