page_title: Brandon Dixon (baseball)
section_title: Cincinnati Reds
hierarchical_section_title: Brandon Dixon (baseball) / Career / Cincinnati Reds
caption_attribution_description: Taken at a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Arizona Diamondbacks on August 11, 2018 at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio.
context_page_description: Brandon Allen Dixon is an American professional baseball infielder and outfielder in the Detroit Tigers organization. He previously played in the Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds.
context_section_description: On December 16, 2015, Dixon was traded to the Cincinnati Reds (with José Peraza and Scott Schebler) in a three team trade that sent Frankie Montas, Micah Johnson and Trayce Thompson to the Dodgers and Todd Frazier to the Chicago White Sox. He spent 2016 with the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos where he slashed .260/.315/.434 with 16 home runs and 65 RBIs in 118 games, and 2017 with the Triple-A Louisville Bats where he collected a .264 batting average with 16 home runs, 64 RBIs, and a .783 OPS in 124 games.
  Dixon was called up to the majors for the first time on May 22, 2018. On May 24 he collected his first three major league hits, going on to play in 74 games for the Reds during the 2018 season at six different defensive positions, in addition to two appearances as a pitcher. He batted .178/.218/.356 in 118 at bats and was recorded as having the fastest base-running sprint speed of all major league first basemen, at 28.9 feet/second.
caption: Dixon on deck for the Cincinnati Reds in 2018
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