Alex Dickerson

BIOGRAPHY

Alex Dickerson was born May 26, 1990, in Poway, California. He is an outfielder in the MLB.

At Poway High School, Dickerson played first base and outfield. He batted .354/.420/.686 as a junior, .455/.522/.851 as a senior, and was named All-San Diego Division I Player of the Year.

He was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 48th round of the 2008 Major League Baseball draft, but elected to attend Indiana University, where he played outfield and designated hitter for the Indiana Hoosiers baseball team from 2009–2011.

As a freshman, batting cleanup Dickerson hit .370/.428/.618 with 14 home runs, earning Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Year and Freshman All-American honors.

Dickerson had a breakout season as a sophomore, slugging .805 (8th in the nation) and winning the Big Ten Triple Crown by leading the Big Ten in batting average (.419), home runs (24; second in the nation), and runs batted in (75). He was named the Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year and earned first-team All-American honors. In his junior season, he batted .367/.440/.540.

In 2009 and 2010, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

In college at Indiana University he was a unanimous selection as 2010 Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year. Dickerson was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the third round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft. He was the 2012 Florida State League Player of the Year, 2013 Eastern League Rookie of the Year, and 2015 Pacific Coast League Rookie of the Year. He made his MLB debut in 2015.

On June 10, 2019, Dickerson was traded to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for Franklin Van Gurp, one of the first trades with new Giants general manager Farhan Zaidi. He played seven games for AAA Sacramento. On June 21, in his first game with the Giants, he hit a grand slam and had a career-high 6 runs batted in. With the Giants in 2019, he batted .290/.351/.529 with 28 runs, 6 home runs, and 26 RBIs in 155 at-bats.

On September 1, 2020, Dickerson tied the franchise record for runs scored in a game with 5. In 2020 he batted .298/.371/.576 with 28 runs, 10 home runs, and 27 RBIs in 151 at-bats.