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Dustin Ryan Fowler (born December 29, 1994) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. Listed at and , he bats and throws left-handed. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Fowler received a non-roster invitation to spring training in 2016 and played that season with the Trenton Thunder where he batted .281 with 12 home runs, 88 RBIs, and 25 stolen bases in 132 games. He was named an Eastern League Mid-Season All-Star that year. He was again invited to spring training in 2017, and started the season with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. He was named the International League Player of the Week for the week of April 30 after hitting a walk-off home run to complete the cycle. In July, he was ranked as the 89th best prospect in baseball by Baseball America. In 70 games for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, he hit .293/.329/.542 with 13 home runs and 43 RBIs.
On June 29, Fowler was promoted to the majors and he made his debut that day after a nearly three-hour rain delay, with the Yankees facing the Chicago White Sox on the road. During the first inning, he ran into a rail while chasing a fly ball, hitting his knee on a sharp edge of an electrical box. He collapsed to the ground and was carted off the field, before being diagnosed with an open rupture of the right patellar tendon. He was ruled out for the season and underwent surgery that night at Rush University Medical Center. Fowler would have led off the next inning for his first major league plate appearance.
Fowler began the 2018 season with the Nashville Sounds. The Athletics promoted him to the major leagues on May 9, and he went to bat for the first time in the major leagues that night. He started his first game for Oakland on May 11, and got his first major league hit off Yankee pitcher Sonny Gray, the player he was traded for. On May 18, 2018, he hit his first major league home run off Marco Estrada in a 3-1 victory over the Blue Jays. On August 2, he was sent back down to Triple A Nashville. He was recalled to the majors on August 31. Before the end of spring training in 2019, Fowler was optioned to Triple-A in order to see more time at all three outfield positions. He spent the entire season with the Las Vegas Aviators, despite hitting well. He later said it was a "big shock" to him not getting called up that year.
Before the start of the 2020 season, Fowler was initially reassigned to minor league camp on March 13. However, the season was soon put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In June, he was included in the Athletics' 60-man player pool for the shortened 2020 season. After not being called up, Fowler was designated for assignment on February 21, 2021, after the Trevor Rosenthal signing was made official. At the time of his designation, Fowler had not appeared in an MLB game since 2018.
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