Free-agent utility player Brandon Dixon announced his retirement from professional baseball on his Twitter/X account on Thursday. It was a brief career as the 32-year-old played in parts of five seasons and appeared in just 235 games. He hit .224 with 22 home runs, six stolen bases, and a .663 OPS across 658 trips to the plate in that time. However, he did pace the Tigers with a career-high 15 home runs in the 2019 season when he played in 118 games. Most recently, he played two seasons for his hometown San Diego Padres, hitting .203 with two homers, one steal, and a .573 OPS across 86 trips to the plate in the 2023 campaign.
San Diego Padres infielder Brandon Dixon is serving as the designated hitter and batting eighth in the lineup on Friday as the team kicks off the second half of the season against the Philadelphia Phillies and left-hander Cristopher Sanchez. Dixon hit well against lefties in the minors at Triple-A El Paso, but so far he's gone just 15-for-71 (.211) with two home runs, four doubles, eight RBI and nine runs scored in 30 games for the Padres, including going 5-for-35 (.143) with one homer and six RBI against southpaws in the big leagues in 2023. The 31-year-old right-handed hitter will be a low-cost deep DFS sleeper for Friday's slate of action to kick off the second half of the MLB season.
The Detroit Tigers have added infielder Brandon Dixon to their roster on Tuesday while moving Jonathan Schoop (wrist) from the 10-day injured list to the 45-day injured list. The 28-year-old Dixon played in 117 games with the Tigers last year and showed some potential, slashing .248/.290/.435 with 15 home runs, 52 RBI and five stolen bases. He could be someone worth keeping an eye on for anyone in AL-only and deeper leagues for the final week of the season. Stay tuned and see if the Tigers give him regular at-bats.
Detroit Tigers outfielder Brandon Dixon came up big late in the team's 4-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday. Dixon went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts, but the hit essentially gave the Tigers the victory. The 27-year-old left fielder came up to the plate in the top of the ninth and quickly untied the 2-2 game by delivering Branden Kline's first pitch of the at-bat over the center field fence for a two-run dinger. It was his fifth home run of the season and second in the past five games. The second-year pro, who has struck out 30 times in 72 at-bats, is currently hitting .306 on the season with a respectable .931 OPS.
The Cincinnati Reds called up utility man Brandon Dixon on Tuesday, optioning Rosell Herrera to make room. Dixon, 26, will get his first taste of major league pitching after spending time in the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati farm systems. Dixon has some power in his bat but is not a good defender, which makes him better suited as a designated hitter. That won't be an option in the National League, so it remains to be seen just how Cincinnati plans to utilize him.
