Donnie Dewees

Selected by the Chicago Cubs in the second round (No. 47 overall) of the 2015 MLB Draft out of North Florida... signed with the Cubs on June 25, 2015 and received a $1.7 million signing bonus... was a semifinalist for the 2015 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award... was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year... was traded by the Cubs to the Kansas City Royals on Feb. 8, 2017 in exchange for right-hander Alec Mills... the Royals then traded Dewees back to the Cubs on March 8, 2019 for right-hander Stephen Ridings... was selected as an MiLB.com Cubs Organization All-Star in 2016 and 2017 and was voted a Midwest League All-Star in 2016 with South Bend.

Redshirt sophomore batted .422 with 88 runs, 12 doubles, eight triples, 18 home runs and 68 RBIs in 60 games for North Florida in 2015... was a unanimous All-American and an ABCA First Team All-Region honoree... finished fifth in the voting for the USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award and was a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy, each recognizing the country's top amateur player... became the first position player to win Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Week four times in one season in 2015... broke single season school records for runs (88), hits (106), triples (8) and total bases (188)... led the nation in five different categories: runs, runs per game (1.47), hits, slugging percentage (.749) and total bases... was second in the country with a .422 batting average and ranked in the top-10 nationally in 10 different offensive categories... hit 18 homers, fourth-most in country and fourth-most in North Florida history... tied the school record and owned the country's longest hit streak at 31 games (March 21-May 15)... played and started in 60 of the 61 games for the Ospreys, tying a school D-1 era (2006-present) record... led the Atlantic Sun Conference with 23 stolen bases, the most of any UNF D-1 player... owns D-1 era single season records in slugging percentage, on-base percentage (.483) at bats (251), runs, his, triples (8), home runs, RBIs and total bases... owns program career records in batting average (.382) and triples (12)... in D-1 era, he is North Florida's career record-holder in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage (.451) and triples... in 2013, he was named a Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American, National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Freshman All-American (Second Team) and Perfect Game Freshman All-American (Second Team), All-Atlantic Sun Conference (Second Team) and was a unanimous Atlantic Sun All-Freshman selection... majored in health science.

Attended Crystal River (Florida) High School where he was named First Team All-Area as a sophomore and a junior, All-County Player of the Year during his sophomore season, Most Valuable Player as a freshman... as a sophomore, was named Offensive Player of the Year; and as a junior, was deemed Defensive Player of the Year… as a sophomore, boasted a .487 batting average (38-for-78) with 26 runs, 17 runs batted in, seven doubles, four triples and 10 stolen bases…As a junior, hit .387 (29-for-75) with 26 runs, 18 RBI, two doubles, two triples and 14 stolen bases… as a senior hit .410 with 14 doubles, six triples, four home runs, while adding 12 stolen bases… on the mound, he pitched 24 innings as a sophomore with 19 strikeouts and a complete game... pitched 52 innings as a junior with 62 strikeouts, four complete games and a 1.88 ERA… worked 70 innings as a senior with a 8-2 record, 1.70 ERA, 54 strikeouts compared to five walks and two complete games… also played soccer, earning team MVP and All-District accolades…played football with All-District distinctions… honor student and member of the Honor Society... son of Deborah Dewees… has an older brother, Danny, and older sisters, Gina, Jaclyn and Dawn… his grandfather John Rodemeyer played for the Baltimore Orioles