Hunter Dozier Stats
- Height / Weight
- 6' 4" / 220 lbs.
- Date of Birth (Age)
- 8/22/1991 (32)
- Experience
- 3
- College
- Stephen F. Austin State
Hunter Dozier Season Stats
Last 10 Games
Hunter Dozier News
Kansas City Royals third baseman Hunter Dozier has been designated for assignment on Monday. This comes as a bit of a surprise considering Dozier had one year remaining on his four-year, $25 million deal that he signed in 2021. The 31-year-old has been struggling the last few seasons with a lackluster .679 OPS in his last 345 games. This season, Dozier is slashing .183/.253/.305 with two homers, nine RBI in 25 games. He should be able to catch on elsewhere as a bench player, but fantasy managers shouldn't expect him to have much fantasy value.
Kansas City Royals third baseman Hunter Dozier (illness) was scratched from the team's Cactus League lineup on Wednesday against the Colorado Rockies due to an illness. In his absence, Nick Loftin will get the start at third base and will hit eighth in the batting order. The 31-year-old Dozier should be able to return to spring action in a day or two. In his sixth season with the Royals in 2022, Dozier hit .236/.292/.387 with a .679 OPS, 12 home runs, 41 RBI, 51 runs scored and four stolen bases in 500 plate appearances and 128 games for KC. He is useful for his positional versatility and occasional pop, but Dozier has been a frustrating player to roster in fantasy because of his streakiness at the plate.
Kansas City Royals first baseman and outfielder Hunter Dozier was officially activated from the paternity list on Thursday afternoon. He'll get the start against the Tampa Bay Rays, batting fifth and patrolling right field. The 30-year-old has produced mediocre numbers this season, slashing .244/.307/.403 with 10 homers, 35 RBI, 30 walks and 92 strikeouts. With eligibility at multiple spots, Dozier is worth rostering in deeper leagues or as a cheaper option in daily fantasy lineups.
Hunter Dozier Stats
Last 10 Games
Kansas City Royals corner infielder Hunter Dozier had a decent offensive showing in 2020, posting a 104 wRC+ and a career-high 14.5% walk rate that helped to lift his OBP. However, the power surge we saw in 2019 never replicated itself in the shortened season, as Dozier slugged just .392 in 2020 compared to .522 two seasons ago.He did contract COVID-19 towards the beginning of the season, which led to a late start and likely factored into the low power output. His hard-hit rate dropped to 30% after coming in right around 45% over nearly 1,000 combined plate appearances between 2018-19. If that metric corrects itself over the course of a more normal 2021, Dozier could easily find himself producing a homer total closer to his mark of 26 in 2019. Dozier bounced primarily between first base and right field in 2020 after playing 100 games at third in 2019. With the arrival of Carlos Santana and the departure of Maikel Franco this offseason, he'll likely shift back to the left side of the infield in 2021. Kansas City isn't bursting with outfield depth, though, so it stands to reason that Dozier will maintain multi-position eligibility as long as he continues to see the occasional start in right field. Dozier will likely slot in somewhere among the first five hitters in a sneaky-good top of the Kansas City order that includes Santana, Jorge Soler, and Whit Merrifield. The Royals clearly still believe in Dozier as they inked him to a four-year, $25 million extension in early March. They're writing off 2020 as an aberration and are counting on a bounce-back in the power department, which would make Dozier a strong candidate to outperform his current ADP of 231.69.
