It’s a big offseason for Brandon Dixon. The soon-to-be 25-year-old is eligible for the Rule 5 draft if he’s not placed on the Cincinnati Reds 40-man roster before Friday evening. He’s coming off of a solid, but unspectacular regular season with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos where he hit .260/.315/.434 with 23 doubles and 16 home runs. On the downside of things, though, he walked 30 times with 137 strikeouts, a ratio of walks to strikeouts that doesn’t tend to work so well in the Major Leagues.
The Reds sent the infielder/outfielder to the Arizona Fall League to likely get one last look at him before having to make the decision on whether or not they would protect him.