Mauricio Dubón

Mauricio Andre Dubón (Spanish pronunciation: [duˈβon] born July 19, 1994) is a Honduran professional baseball shortstop for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Red Sox selected Dubón out of high school in the 26th round of the 2013 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2019.

Mauricio Dubón
Dubón with the San Antonio Missions in 2019
San Francisco Giants – No. 1
Shortstop
Born: (1994-07-19) July 19, 1994
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Bats: Right Throws: Right
MLB debut
July 7, 2019, for the Milwaukee Brewers
MLB statistics
(through 2020 season)
Batting average.274
Home runs8
Runs batted in28
Teams

Early life and high school career

Dubón was born and grew up in Honduras, San Pedro Sula where he attended Liceo Bilingue Centroamericano. At age 15, after a Christian baseball mission group visited Honduras, Dubón started to work harder to get attention on the field.[1]

The Capital Christian High School saw Dubón play, and asked him if he wanted to come back to the United States with the group so he could hone his baseball skills while attending high school. Dubón moved to Sacramento, California, to attend Capital Christian as a foreign exchange student.[2][3] He posted a .509 batting average (86-for-169) after his junior and senior year at Capital Christian High School, including 23 doubles, 14 triples, eight home runs and 81 RBI before being drafted by Boston. He was ranked by Baseball America as the best defensive player among the 2013 Red Sox draft picks.[1]

Professional career

Boston Red Sox

The Red Sox selected Dubón in the 26th round of the 2013 MLB draft. After batting .245 in 20 games for the GCL Red Sox shortly after signing, Dubón was promoted to the Lowell Spinners in 2014 and ranked among the top ten in the New York–Penn League with a .320 batting average (82-for-256).[4]

For the Greenville Drive in 2015, Dubón hit .364 through his first 11 games and had hit safely in 10 of those contests. He finished the season with High-A Salem Red Sox of the Carolina League, hitting a combined .288/.349/.376 slash line with 30 stolen bases in 120 games during the two stints.[5] He then was invited by the Boston Red Sox to participate on its 2016 spring training.[6]

Dubón continued his development at Salem in 2016, earning a spot in the Carolina League All-Star team to play in the 2016 California-Carolina League All-Star Game.[7] He was promoted to Double-A Portland Sea Dogs following his appearance in the All-Star Game. At the time of his promotion, Dubón had a .306/.387/.379 line over 238 at-bats with a good approach producing more walks (33) than strikeouts (25).[5] The .306 average was good for third in the Carolina League, and the on-base percentage ranked sixth. Besides, his speed has also continued to be a huge part of his game, stealing 24 bases in 28 attempts, for the sixth best in the league.[8]

At Double-A, Dubón improved his slash line to .339/.371/.538 over 62 games with Portland, including 23 multi-hits games, six home runs and 40 RBI. Overall, he hit .323/.379/.461 with 101 runs, 69 RBI and 30 stolen bases in the two stints. Besides, he led the Red Sox minors system in runs and hits (157), while his .323 average was the second-best to Aneury Tavárez (.330).[9] In addition, he finished third in stolen bases behind Yoan Moncada (45) and Danny Mars (31) and sixth in RBIs.[9] He then was selected to join the Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League during the postseason.[10]

Milwaukee Brewers

On December 6, 2016, the Red Sox traded Dubón, Travis Shaw, and Josh Pennington to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for Tyler Thornburg.[11] He spent 2017 with both the Biloxi Shuckers and the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, posting a combined .274 batting average with eight home runs, 57 RBIs and 38 stolen bases in 129 total games between both teams.[12] The Brewers added him to their 40-man roster after the season.[13]

MLB.com ranked Dubón as Milwaukee's 11th-ranked prospect going into the 2018 season.[14] He spent the 2018 season with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, batting .343 with four home runs, 18 RBIs, and six stolen bases in only 27 games due to injury.[15]

He played most of 2019 with the San Antonio Missions, batting .297/.333/.475 with 59 runs, 16 home runs, and 47 RBIs in 404 at bats.[16]

On July 7, 2019, the Brewers promoted Dubón to the major leagues. He made his MLB debut that day against the Pittsburgh Pirates, grounding out as a pinch-hitter.[17][18] Dubón was the second Honduran baseball player to make it to MLB, after Gerald Young.

San Francisco Giants

On July 31, 2019, the Brewers traded Dubón to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for Ray Black and Drew Pomeranz.[19] With AAA Sacramento, in 2019 he batted .323/.391/.485 with 23 runs, 4 home runs, and 9 RBIs in 99 at bats.[20] Dubón started at 2nd base for the Giants on August 29, getting his first Major League hit, with his California family in attendance. With the Giants in 2019 he batted .279/.312/.442 with 12 runs, 4 home runs, and 9 RBIs in 104 at bats.[20] The following season, he batted .274/.337/.389 with 4 home runs and 19 RBI in 54 games.

References
  1. Mauricio Dubon full biography. MiLB.com. Retrieved on April 8, 2016.
  2. Dubon taking journey from Honduras to the majors one stop at a time. SoxProspects.com. Retrieved on March 31, 2015.
  3. Red Sox shortstop Dubon more than raw talent. MiLB.com. Retrieved on April 23, 2015.
  4. 2014 New York–Penn League Batting Leaders. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on April 8, 2016.
  5. "Mauricio Dubon | SoxProspects.com". www.soxprospects.com.
  6. Mauricio Dubon added to Red Sox training roster. CBSSports.com. Retrieved on March 5, 2016.
  7. Red Sox Minor League Notebook. WEEI.com. Retrieved on June 9, 2016.
  8. Red Sox promote shortstop prospect Mauricio Dubon to Double-A Portland joining Yoan Moncada, Andrew Benintendi. MassLive.com. Retrieved on June 23, 2016.
  9. 2016 Boston Red Sox Minor League batting statistics. SoxProspects.com. Retrieved on September 1, 2016.
  10. 2016 Surprise Saguaros Roster. MiLB.com. Retrieved on August 31, 2016.
  11. Drellich, Evan (December 6, 2016). "Red Sox trade for Brewers reliever Tyler Thornburg". Boston Herald. Archived from the original on December 8, 2016.
  12. "Mauricio Dubon Stats, Highlights, Bio - MiLB.com Stats - The Official Site of Minor League Baseball". MiLB.com. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
  13. "Brewers add 4 prospects to 40-man roster". MLB.com.
  14. "Hiura headlines new-look Brewers Top 30 Prospects list". MLB.com. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  15. "Mauricio Dubon Stats, Highlights, Bio - MiLB.com Stats - The Official Site of Minor League Baseball". MiLB.com. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  16. "Missions' Dubon breaks out with four hits". MiLB.com.
  17. "Brewers calling up prospect Mauricio Dubon after injury to Orlando Arcia". madison.com. July 7, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  18. "Mauricio Dubon leaves a positive first impression as he makes his major-league debut".
  19. Tom Haudricourt (July 31, 2019). "Brewers send infield prospect Mauricio Dubon to Giants for pitchers Drew Pomeranz and Ray Black". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  20. "Mauricio Dubon Minor & Fall Leagues Statistics & History". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
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