Brewer Hicklen #53

Selected in the seventh round of the 2017 MLB Draft by the Kansas City Royals out of the University of Alabama at Birmingham... resides in Huntsville, Ala., with his wife, Reagan... graduated from Huntsville High School (Ala.), where he was named Louisville Slugger High School All-America Catcher Honorable Mention as a senior... earned National High School Invitational All-Tournament honors as the quarterback of the football team... attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he redshirted in 2015… he planned to play football as a wide receiver, and baseball at UAB, before the school’s football program was shut down after the 2014 season... became the highest player drafted out of UAB when the Royals selected him in the seventh round (210th overall)... in 2021 he played in 107 games with Double-A Northwest Arkansas, posting a .780 OPS with 15 doubles, three triples, 16 home runs, 57 RBI and 40 stolen bases, the third-most by a Royals Minor Leaguer, behind only Dairon Blanco’s 41 and Tyler Tolbert’s 55... his 40 stolen bases were the most by any player in Double-A, three more than Somerset’s (Yankees) Michael Beltré... hit a fourth-inning grand slam in the Double-A Central Championship-clinching Game 3 win over Wichita... spent the 2022 season with Triple-A Omaha while also making his Major League debut with the Royals on May 26... appeared in six games, getting four at-bats, in his first stint in the Majors before returning to Triple-A... was a MiLB.com Royals All-Star in 2018 and 2019.