Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Ronnie Dawson was born May 19, 1995, in Grove City, Ohio. He is an outfielder in the MLB.

The Houston Astros selected Dawson in the second round, with the 62nd overall selection, of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Astros, receiving a $1,056,800 signing bonus, and the Astros assigned him to the Tri-City ValleyCats of the Class A Short Season New York-Penn League, where he spent all of 2016, batting .225 with seven home runs and 36 RBIs. In 2017, he played for the Quad Cities River Bandits of the Class A Midwest League and the Buies Creek Astros of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League, posting a combined .278 batting average with 14 home runs, 67 RBIs, and a .800 OPS. He began the 2018 season with Buies Creek and was promoted to the Corpus Christi Hooks of the Class AA Texas League during the season. 

The Astros invited Dawson to spring training as a non-roster player in 2019. After splitting the 2019 season between Corpus Christi and the Triple-A Round Rock Express, Dawson did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the 2020 Minor League Baseball season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On April 14, 2021, Dawson was promoted to the majors for the first time. He made his major league debut that day as the Astros’ designated hitter against the Detroit Tigers and recorded his first major league hit, a single off of Alex Lange.