[1] Mauricio Dubón was born and raised in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he attended Liceo Bilingüe Centroamericano High School.
Dubón accepted the offer and moved to Sacramento, California, where he enrolled at Capital Christian High School as a foreign exchange student.
He finished the season with High-A Salem Red Sox of the Carolina League, hitting a combined .288/.349/.376 slash line with 30 stolen bases in 120 games during the two stints.
Besides, he led the Red Sox minors system in runs and hits (157), while his .323 average was the second-best to Aneury Tavárez (.330).
[13] On December 6, 2016, the Red Sox traded Dubón, Travis Shaw, and Josh Pennington to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for Tyler Thornburg.
[14] He spent 2017 with both the Biloxi Shuckers and the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, posting a combined .274 batting average with eight home runs, 57 RBIs and 38 stolen bases in 129 total games between both teams.
[17] He spent the 2018 season with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, batting .343 with four home runs, 18 RBIs, and six stolen bases in only 27 games due to injury.
He made his MLB debut that day against the Pittsburgh Pirates, grounding out as a pinch hitter; he had two major league at bats with the Brewers for the season.
[23] On July 31, 2019, the Brewers traded Dubón to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for pitchers Ray Black and Drew Pomeranz.
[25] Dubón started at second base for the Giants on August 29, getting his first Major League hit, with his California family in attendance.
[29] Dubón started in center field on August 28 versus the Baltimore Orioles, collecting one single and two outfield assists, rifling out both Robinson Chirinos and Jorge Mateo at third base.
[33] Early in April, he took over regular duties at second base and as leadoff hitter for Jose Altuve, who was recovering from a fractured thumb sustained during the World Baseball Classic (WBC).
[36] When Altuve returned from the injured list on May 19, Dubón's .309 batting average ranked sixth in the American League (AL) and his 46 hits led the Astros.
Per OptaSTATS, it was the first time in major league history that the number nine and leadoff hitters hit back-to-back home runs twice in the same game.
[39] For the 2023 season, Dubón reached career highs in nearly every offensive category, playing in 132 games, accruing 492 plate appearances, and batting .278/.309/.411.
[42] Following the regular season, he was announced as the recipient of the annual Darryl Kile Good Guy Award by the Houston chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).