Bio

Scott Alain Alexander (born July 10, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for Pepperdine University and Sonoma State University. The Kansas City Royals selected Alexander in the sixth round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft. Alexander made his MLB debut in 2015 with the Royals, and has also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Career Amateur career Alexander played Little League Baseball and attended Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, California, where he was named the North Bay League player of the year as a senior. He set the school records for strikeouts in a season and a career and led them to the league championship in 2007. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 37th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft but did not sign and instead attended to play college baseball for the Pepperdine Waves. He was selected to the all-West Coast Conference Freshman team in 2008 when he had a 7–4 win-loss record with a 4.95 earned run average (ERA) and struck out 106 batters. He was 4–5 with a 4.11 ERA as a sophomore, when he was used as both a starter and a reliever. Between his two seasons at Pepperdine he played for the La Crosse Loggers of the Northwoods League. After the 2009 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Despite describing his time at Pepperdine as a "great experience" he chose to transfer to Sonoma State University for his junior season in order to be closer to home and his ill grandmother. With the Seawolves, he was 3–6 with a 4.50 ERA in 13 starts with 70 strikeouts and was named the fourth best prospect in NCAA Division II by PGCrosschecker.com.