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Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Scouting stories had been compiled with info supplied by business sources in addition to my very own observations. That is the fifth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Guide changes are made the place they appear applicable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means could be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview could be discovered right here.
All the ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location provides that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan information from numerous sources) than this text and integrates each group’s listing so readers can evaluate prospects throughout farm methods. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Notice
Grouped by sort and listed so as of choice inside every class.
Extra DSL Names to Know
Adrian Torres, LHP
Eduardo RojasC
Shai Romero, RHP
Joseph Deng Thon, RHP
Torres is a well-built Panamanian lefty who bought the second most cash of any Dodgers signee in 2025, after Roki Sasaki. He’ll peak within the 94-96 mph vary and has slider. Rojas is an 18-year-old Venezuelan switch-hitting catcher who has an ideal trying left-handed swing. He slashed .227/.409/.297 in 2024. Romero, 17, is a 6-foot-5 Dominican righty who was as much as 99 in a latest dwell BP. Deng Thon is a 6-foot-6 righty from Sudan who appears to be like like Kevin Durant throwing a baseball.
Second Base and Different Issues
Austin Gauthier2B
Yeiner Fernandez2B/C
Nicolas PerezMIF/LF
Sean mclainINF
Eduardo GuerreroINF
Gauthier is an undrafted free agent from 2021 who slayed the mid-minors earlier than his capacity to slug fell off as soon as he reached Triple-A. He’s a bit spark plug with an reverse discipline strategy, however he’s powerful to roster as a result of he’s a second base-only defender. Fernandez is a 22-year-old catcher and second baseman who has run strikeout charges within the 10-13% vary for the final a number of years. Perez, 20, was drafted out of B You Academy in Puerto Rico in 2022 and is a skills-oriented, undersized infielder who might be a low-end utility man. Sean McLain (Matt’s youthful brother) can actually play protection however he’s a profession .190 hitter. Guerrero is a younger, projectable, switch-hitting infielder with good really feel for contact from either side of the plate. His bat pace is effectively beneath common and he’s usually late to the contact level. Even when Guerrero is on time sufficient to make contact, he doesn’t hit the ball particularly arduous. He has crawled by means of the decrease minors, however at 19, he’s nonetheless younger for Excessive-A.
A Plus Secondary Providing
Livan ReinosoRHP
Ryan BrownRHP
Kelvin RamirezRHP
Ricardo MonteroRHP
Maddux BrunsLHP
Cam DayRHP
Marco corkRHP
Reinoso, who went to highschool in Joe Maddon’s native Hazleton, PA, has had maybe probably the most attention-grabbing profession arc of any participant on this listing. He performed 5 collegiate seasons at three completely different faculties (Chesapeake Faculty, Erskine Faculty, and Tennessee Wesleyan), all as an infielder. In his lone season at Wesleyan, he performed each methods because the group went 56-8 and Reinoso slashed .417/.495/.921. He had a quick Savannah Bananas tenure in 2022, and in that season signed with the Dodgers as a pitcher. Reinoso will present you 96-99, however with a lot of effort and little command. This spring, he debuted a plus-flashing splitter. He’s a bit too erratic for the primary part of the listing, but it surely’d be an ideal story if he even briefly reaches the bigs.
Brown is a wild 22-year-old righty from Ball State with a brilliant lengthy, stiff arm motion, and a plus-plus changeup. He’ll sit about 95, however he has walked almost a batter per inning in professional ball. Ramirez sits 95-96 with violent spinal tilt and a mean slider. He’s 23 and broke camp at Tulsa. Montero is a gigantic (like 6-foot-6, 270 or so) 21-year-old Dominican righty who will sit 99-101 at peak. He’s very wild and walked almost two batters per inning within the 2024 ACL. Bruns is a 22-year-old lefty and former first spherical decide. For some time he seemed like a Weight loss plan Carlos Rodónwith plus stuff undercut by his wildness. Currently he’s been injured (a rib fracture initially identified as an indirect pressure) and he started 2025 in prolonged spring coaching. If his stuff can rebound as soon as he’s wholesome, he’ll re-enter the primary part.
Day was an eligible sophomore when the Dodgers signed him after the 2023 draft. He carried an 8.54 profession ERA at Utah, however he was throwing arduous (94-97) and the elevation there makes it powerful to pitch effectively. He’s nonetheless sitting 94-97 mph and bending in a 2,800 rpm sweeper within the 82-84 vary, however Day has but to supply good outcomes, as he struggled with walks a starter at Rancho in 2024. He’s labored in lengthy aid at Nice Lakes to date in 2025 and must be monitored as a result of he has plus arm energy and uncooked breaking ball spin. Marco! Corcho! It usually feels just like the Colombian reliever is trying to find the plate together with his eyes closed as a result of he tends to scatter his stuff all over, however he sits 97 and his upper-80s slider is nasty when positioned. He’s a bodily mature 19-year-old presently figuring out of the Rancho bullpen.
Toolsy Guys with Excessive Hit Software Threat
Chris NewellOF
Jaron ElkinsOF
Joe Vetrano1b
Brendan Tunink, OF
It is a fairly self-explanatory group. Newell is a bodily lefty-hitting outfielder at Tulsa who has Ok’d a 3rd of the time as a professional. Elkins is a 20-year-old outfielder drafted out of highschool in 2023. He’s wiry and athletic, he can actually run and throw, and his swing is geared for energy, however he posted a 62% contact charge in 2024. Vetrano, drafted out of Boston Faculty within the 2023 fifth spherical, is just like Newell besides he performs first base. Tunink is a left-handed hitting model of Elkins drafted final 12 months and signed away from a Notre Dame dedication for about $400,000.
System Overview
Although they’re perennial contenders who are likely to ship out a few premium prospects in a minimum of one blockbuster commerce yearly, the Dodgers as soon as once more have one of many higher farm methods in baseball. How are they capable of maintain their system flush with expertise? For one, the Dodgers make their justifiable share of trades for prospects themselves, and infrequently once they do, they’re getting a number of gamers again. There are a number of examples throughout the previous couple of seasons through which they’ve executed trades like this, dealing good function gamers who aren’t fairly adequate to play for the massive league membership in alternate for a number of, usually early-career, slow-to-mature prospects who get to spend so much of time beneath the org’s participant dev tutelage. Within the Michael Busch commerce with the Cubs, these prospects had been Zyhir Hope and Jackson Ferris, who’ve improved and at the moment are 50 FV prospects. Within the Gavin Lux take care of the Reds, it was Mike Sirota (who hadn’t even performed a professional recreation but) and a draft decide. Within the Dylan Floro commerce with the Marlins, it was Alex Vesia (who was higher than Floro inside months) and Kyle Harm. This two-for-one strategy, which the Rays additionally employed beneath Andrew Friedman, helps create depth.
Los Angeles additionally tends to focus on gamers who’re far-off from the 40-man roster in these offers. They’re the Dodgers — their 40-man is fairly stacked. Buying gamers who’re both already on the 40-man, or who will quickly need to be, doesn’t make sense when your roster is full. As such, the Dodgers commerce for lots of prospects who had been simply drafted, or who’re within the DSL. These gamers are sometimes years away from the 40-man, and the Dodgers get to spend that point making use of their participant dev methods to their newly-acquired guys.
The dev piece of that is big, and in addition applies to the Dodgers’ drafts. They have a tendency to have the ability to make a minimum of a few guys who they tackle Day Two or Three a lot, significantly better inside simply a few months. Even when these gamers (often pitchers) aren’t adequate to crack the massive league roster (the Dodgers’ championship squad had only a few homegrown gamers), they’re usually adequate to commerce as a part of an enormous package deal for somebody like Mookie Betts.
All that stated, the group’s high-profile place participant draft picks and high worldwide signees haven’t been as flawlessly superior of late. Plenty of the hitters within the 45 and 40+ FV tiers listed below are arguably “arrow down” guys, or have held regular at their pre-draft/signing grade. Particularly, the hit software analysis on this org has been blended. There isn’t a single hitter with plus hit software projection on this system. This does make the Dodgers’ place participant group really feel inordinately dangerous in comparison with different orgs. Place participant prospects usually fall wanting expectations as a result of they hit lower than we/I assumed they had been going to, and it appears like that’s a believable end result for mainly each hitter on this listing. The Kellon Lindsey/Alex Freeland/Eduardo Quintero/Joendry Vargas/Emil Morales cluster towards the highest of the listing will doubtless take care of some fairly critical attrition over the subsequent two seasons as the blokes with defective hit instruments reveal themselves extra clearly.
Total, that is most likely the very best run group in professional sports activities. When the Cleveland Cavaliers got here to Phoenix to play the Suns final month, the Cavs had entrance workplace personnel at Camelback Ranch to observe and study from the Dodgers’ processes. That isn’t regular. It’s near baseball ops utopia over there, and this group isn’t exhibiting any indicators of slowing down.
