Alex Dickerson’s playing days are over.
After a six-year major league career, the former SF Giants outfielder has officially retired, with his wife Jen sharing the news on Instagram.
Dickerson’s path to the big leagues took a few turns before he ever put on a Giants uniform. The Washington Nationals picked him in the 48th round of the 2008 draft out of Poway High School, though he didn’t sign. He later went to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and the Pittsburgh Pirates took him in the third round of the 2011 draft.
A trade sent him from Pittsburgh to San Diego in 2013, with Jaff Decker and Miles Mikolas going the other way. In 2019, Dickerson landed with San Francisco in a deal that sent minor league reliever Franklin Van Gurp to the Padres.
Once he arrived in San Francisco, Dickerson gave the Giants exactly the kind of jolt they were looking for. The organization was in the middle of a transition from the old regime and was combing the waiver wire for useful major league pieces. Some of those moves paid off, and Dickerson was one of the hits.
He announced himself in a big way in his first game after the trade, going 3-for-5 with a grand slam and six RBI. That start helped spark a chant that fans still remember.
Dickerson remained a useful bat for the next couple of seasons, though his production dipped in 2021. That year he put up a .725 OPS with 13 home runs and 38 RBI in 312 plate appearances.
The Giants non-tendered him after the season, making him a free agent, and he briefly caught on with the Atlanta Braves to open 2022. That ended up being his final major league stop.
Since then, the 36-year-old outfielder has kept playing in the World Baseball Classic, overseas, and in independent ball. Most recently, he was with the High Point Rockers of the Atlantic League, where he hit .903 OPS with eight home runs and 34 RBI in 185 plate appearances.
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