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ALEX JACKSON
FRONT OFFICE • Has never appeared in a postseason game. Amateur
• Has no career game-ending RBI.
• Graduated from Rancho Bernardo High School
• Has been on the injured list just once in his
major-league career…Was recalled on 9/5/19 and in 2014, where Baseball America named him
the High School Player of the Year for his senior
placed on the 60-day IL with a left knee sprain.
season after he hit .400 with 11 home runs and
minor league notes
31 RBI
MANAGER & STAFF • Hit a career-best 28 home runs in 2019 with • Hit 47 career homers in high school to tie the San
Diego section record.
Triple-A Gwinnett, tied for the fifth most in the
• Entered the draft as the top position player
International League…Also matched his single-
according to Baseball America and the fourth-
season career best with 65 RBI.
best prospect overall.
• Named by the organization as the Stripers’
Player of the Month for July…Batted Transactions
.306/.393/.708 (22-for-72) with nine home • Selected by the Seattle Mariners in the first round
ALEX JACKSON • Was a 2017 Florida State League Mid-Season • Acquired by the Atlanta Braves along with
runs and 23 RBI in 22 games.
(sixth overall) of the 2014 First-Year Player Draft;
signed by Gary Patchett.
All-Star with High-A Florida, his first year in the
Braves organization…Also named by Baseball
America as a High Class-A All-Star. a player to be named later (LHP Tyler Pike,
December 9, 2016) from the Seattle Mariners
• Played for Peoria in the Arizona Fall in exchange for RHP Rob Whalen and RHP Max
League…Named to the AFL All-Prospect
Povse on November 28, 2016.
SEASON IN REVIEW • Acquired from Seattle in a four-player deal in • On Atlanta’s 60-day injured list (left knee sprain)
team after hitting five home runs and
driving in 16 in 20 games.
from September 5 to the end of the 2019 season.
November 2016.
• Entered the 2016 season as the Mariners’
No. 1 prospect (Baseball America)
• Began his first professional season, 2015, as MLB.
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT com’s No. 28 overall prospect…Was the second-
highest ranking for a player from the 2014 First-
Year Player Draft.
• Selected sixth overall in 2014.
Complete Record
BRAVES HISTORY Year Club AVG 28 108 10 R 23 6 2 2 16 0 1 2 0 9 24 0-1 .344 .476 E 3 1
G
AB
H 2B 3B HR RBI SH SF HP BB SO SB-CS OBP SLG
2014 AZL Mariners
82 11
.280 23
1
6
6
.240
17
13
0
2015
35
6
1-1
0
.213
.157
Clinton

Everett
2016 Clinton .239 48 163 31 39 11 1 8 25 0 1 12 21 61 2-4 .365 .466 2
2
1 2 11 34 103
1 11 55
81 20
.332 .408
2-1
.243 92 333 43
2017 Florida .272 66 257 44 70 17 0 14 45 0 1 11 13 74 0-1 .333 .502 10
Mississippi .255 30 110 12 28 4 0 5 20 0 0 0 10 32 0-0 .317 .427 2
2018 Mississippi .200 64 225 27 45 12 1 5 24 0 1 6 20 78 0-0 .282 .329 6
OPPONENTS 2019 Gwinnett .204 35 108 15 22 11 2 3 17 0 2 3 12 42 0-0 .296 .426 6
Gwinnett
70
0
1-0
0 28 65
9
.229 85 306 52
.313 .533 12
1 18 20 118
.133
Atlanta
0-0
2020 Atlanta .000 4 5 13 7 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 4 0-0 .286 .000 0 0
.429
.286
Minor Totals .233 471 1692 245 395 96 7 76 280 2 11 67 145 567 6-8 .317 .433 44
Major Totals .100 9 20 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 0-0 .182 .150 0
MAJOR LEAGUE FIELDING RECORD
MISCELLANEOUS Position 2021 ATLANTA BRAVES MEDIA GUIDE A E TC DP PB CS ATT .000 0
PCT P-OFF
G
PO
PCT
Catcher
50
1.000
8
0
0
0
53
1
3
0
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