Former Oak Mountain High School standout David Dahl has joined the Philadelphia Phillies at spring training in Clearwater, Florida.

The 10th player picked in the 2012 draft and a former National League all-star, Dahl has played in four Major League games in the previous two seasons. The outfielder signed a minor-league deal with the Phillies that included an invitation to spring training.

Dahl had the same deal with the San Diego Padres last year and made the regular-season roster. But after four games, a quadriceps injury sent Dahl to the injured list. After a rehab stint with the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas, Dahl declined an outright assignment to the minors. He signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers and spent the rest of the 2023 season with their Triple-A affiliate in Oklahoma City.

“Another depth piece,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said about Dahl’s signing. “Had a couple really good years in Colorado. Former first-round pick. And he’s got some power. I don’t know what’s happened in the last couple of years.”

Philadelphia returns its top three outfielders from last season – Nick Castellanos, Kyle Schwarber and Brandon Marsh – plus the top two reserves in Jake Cave and Johan Rojas.

Since being drafted by the Colorado Rockies, Dahl’s baseball career has been a series of comebacks from injuries.

In 2013, Dahl’s second minor-league season amounted to 10 games because of a torn hamstring. In 2014, he hit .299 with 41 doubles, eight triples 14 home runs and 21 stolen bases at two minor-league stops.

While playing center field for the New Britain Rock Cats in the Double-A Eastern League, Dahl collided with second baseman Juan Ciriaco while trying to catch a short fly on May 28, 2015. He sustained a lacerated spleen, and the organ was removed.

The next season, Dahl got called up to the big leagues after hitting .484 with five home runs in 16 games for the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes.

Dahl made his MLB debut on July 25, 2016, and ran off a 17-game hitting streak, tied for the longest in history from the start of a career. But his entire 2017 season was wiped out by a stress reaction in his rib cage.

In 2018, Dahl broke his right foot fouling off a pitch, and the injury kept him out of the Colorado lineup in June and July. He returned to hit six home runs in the final eight games of the regular season to help the Rockies reach the playoffs.

Dahl batted .302 with 15 home runs and a .524 slugging percentage in 100 games in 2019. National League players selected Dahl as an outfield reserve for the MLB All-Star Game in 2019. Dahl singled and scored in his only at-bat in the annual Mid-Summer Classic. But less than a month later, he was out for the season because of a high ankle sprain sustained trying to make a catch in center field.

The truncated 2020 MLB season was even more abbreviated for Dahl, who played in 24 games because of back soreness and a shoulder injury that required surgery.

Dahl signed with the Texas Rangers for the 2021 season. After hitting .210 with four home runs in 63 games for Texas – and missing more than a month for a rib injury sustained crashing into the outfield fence – Dahl played in 85 Triple-A games in the minor-league systems of the Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers in 2022.

In 331 MLB games, Dahl has a .271 batting average, .317 on-base average and .463 slugging percentage. He has hit 43 home runs and stolen 17 bases.

The Phillies open their Grapefruit League schedule on Saturday when they visit the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Florida.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.