[1] He played college baseball and won four Mid-American Conference championships at Kent State for coach Scott Stricklin from 2008 to 2011 before advancing to the AAA level professionally with the Houston Astros during his career from 2011-2014.
Hallock attended Perkins High School in Sandusky, Ohio, where he earned 11 varsity letters in baseball, basketball, football and golf.
In 2018, Hallock was inducted as an inaugural member of the Perkins High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Upon graduation in 2007, Hallock was recruited to play baseball at Kent State, where he would pitch on scholarship.
[4] In 2012, Hallock split the time between the Class A Lexington Legends and Rookie league GCL Astros.
In the fall of 2018, Hallock was named the pitching coach at Bowling Green State University.