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dean FRONT OFFICE

OUTFIELDER
Full Name: Justin Emanuel Dean
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Height: 5-8 Weight: 170 MANAGER & STAFF
DOB: December 6, 1996 Opening Day Age: 24
Born: Greenville, SC Resides: Mauldin, SC
MLB Debut: None MLB Service Time: 0.000
Acquired: Braves’ 17th-round pick in 2018
Contract Status: Signed through 2021
NON-ROSTER INVITEE
2020 2018 JUSTIN DEAN
• Appeared in three spring training games…Had • Split his first professional season between
one hit in three at-bats with a strikeout. Rookie-Advanced Danville and Single-A Rome…
2019 Hit .284/.381/.412 (69-for-243) with 20 extra-
base hits (10 2B, 9 3B, 1 HR), 23 RBI and 16 stolen
• Spent the entire season with Single-A Rome, bases in 60 games.
playing in 109 games…Named a South Atlantic • Ranked in the Top 10 among all Atlanta SEASON IN REVIEW
League Post-Season All-Star. farmhands (min. 200 at-bats) in on-base
• Led the league in run scored (85), stolen percentage (4th, .381), stolen bases (T4th, 16),
bases (47) and triples (9)…Finished eighth OPS (7th, .793) and average (10th, .284)
in on-base percentage (.386), slugging • Named Danville’s co-Player of the Month for
percentage (.431) and OPS (.817). June…Batted .282/.364/.385 in nine games that
• Tabbed by the organization as Rome’s Player of month.
the Year, and as the club’s Player of the Month amateur PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
for August.
• Hit .311/.387/.462 with four home runs, 12 • Played three seasons collegiately, 2016-18, at
RBI and 13 stolen bases in 26 games that Lenoir-Rhyne in Hickory, N.C…In 141 games,
August. batted .367/.467/.532 (202-for-551) with 34
doubles, a school-record 12 triples, 11 home
• Finished the season as the 23rd-best prospect in
the Atlanta’s system, according to MLB.com. runs, 88 RBI and 34 stolen bases.
• As a junior, in 2018, hit .398 with a .640
slugging percentage and was named to BRAVES HISTORY
the ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division II All-
Southeast Region Second Team.
• Graduated from Mauldin High School in South
Carolina.
Transactions
• Selected by the Atlanta Braves in the 17th round OPPONENTS
of the 2018 First-Year Player Draft.
Complete Record

Year Club AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SH SF HP BB SO SB-CS OBP SLG E
2018 Danville .308 32 130 28 40 8 4 1 15 0 0 3 22 32 7-6 .419 .454 1
Rome .257 28 113 20 29 2 5 0 8 0 0 2 11 27 9-3 .333 .363 2
2019 Rome .284 109 429 85 122 18 9 9 46 0 2 10 62 115 47-10 .386 .431 4
Minor Totals .284 169 672 133 191 28 18 10 69 0 2 15 95 174 63-19 .384 .424 7 MISCELLANEOUS

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