Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Scouting reviews have been compiled with info supplied by business sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the sixth yr we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column under: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed usually correspond to the yr a participant needs to be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Handbook changes are made the place they appear acceptable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means may be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview may be discovered right here.
All the ranked prospects under additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location gives that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan information from varied sources) than this text and integrates each staff’s listing so readers can examine prospects throughout farm programs. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Observe
Grouped by kind and listed so as of choice inside every class.
Extra Fringe Relievers
Mason Estrada, RHP
Luke Fox, LHP
Antoine Kelly, LHP
Lucas Wepf, RHP
Roque Gutierrez, RHP
Cam Day, RHP
Livan Reinoso, RHP
Alex Makarewich, RHP
Ricardo Montero, RHP
Estrada signed for a little bit over $440,000 out of MIT after he was pumping 95 mph on the Mix. His supply could be very violent, and he must show he can throw strikes in a professional setting to be thought of for the primary part of the listing. Fox is a 23-year-old lefty from Duke who has touched 96 and might supply a number of breaking ball shapes from a cool crossfire angle that could be very tough on fellow southpaws. Kelly is a former Brewers second spherical pick of a junior faculty who has struggled to throw strikes in a pair completely different orgs, and signed a minor league take care of the Dodgers this offseason. He was as much as 99 final yr. One thing in Wepf’s large body and wonky supply lends a ton of deception to his mid-90s four-seamer, permitting it to threaten a 40% miss charge out of the bullpen regardless of a downhill aircraft. It’s a double-edged sword, as mechanical inconsistency drives double-digit stroll charges, and his 40-man platform yr led to June because of proper knee issues. Barrel-chested with a freaky brief stride, Gutierrez has fringe common velocity, his arm is commonly late, and his major choices received hammered in Double-A. However his excessive arm slot and vertical hand place give a promising look to his break up change if he can find sufficient to play an even bigger position. Day hasn’t produced outcomes courting again to varsity, and a messy supply doesn’t depart a lot thriller as to why, however he’s touched 99 mph and his slider exhibits above-average potential, so an up-down aid future stays a chance. Reinoso, who went to highschool in Joe Maddon’s native Hazleton, PA, has had maybe essentially the most attention-grabbing profession arc of any participant on this listing. He performed 5 collegiate seasons at three completely different colleges (Chesapeake Faculty, Erskine Faculty, and Tennessee Wesleyan), all as an infielder. In his lone season at Wesleyan, he performed each methods because the staff went 56-8 and Reinoso slashed .417/.495/.921. He had a short Savannah Bananas tenure in 2022, and in that season signed with the Dodgers as a pitcher. He’ll present you 96-99, however with a lot of effort and little command. Makarewich has a plus-plus breaking ball and can peak within the higher 90s, however he doesn’t throw strikes. Montero is certainly one of a number of burly righties with upper-90s warmth and poor really feel to pitch.
DSL Arms
Adrian Torres, LHP
Joseph Deng Thon, RHP
Luis Gamez, RHP
Shai Romero, RHP
Torres, 17, is a 6-foot-3 lefty who was sitting 93-96 and touched 97 within the DSL. He was walk-prone and received damage after simply shy of 10 innings. The Dodgers have a rising scouting and dev presence in Africa, and up to now Deng (who’s from Sudan) is essentially the most thrilling participant they’ve signed. He appears like a younger Tracy McGrady throwing a baseball, an excellent lanky 6-foot-6 teenage righty whose fastball peaked at 98 in 2025. Deng generates over seven ft of extension and has thrilling, virtually unprecedented bodily traits for a baseball prospect, however he has additionally thrown simply 3.2 professional innings and couldn’t throw strikes. He’s a reputation you should know, however he’s sushi uncooked, too undercooked to have actual prospect worth. But. Gamez is a boxy 19-year-old Mexican righty with a low launch of lateral motion stuff, together with a 92-95 mph fastball and a 82-86 mph slider. Romero can contact 99 however doesn’t find.
Not Sufficient Keep on with Stick
Chris Newell, OF
Brendan Tunink, OF
Jaron Elkins, OF
Austin Gauthier, UTIL
Nico Perez, 2B
Damon Keith, OF
Newell is a power-hitting outfielder from UVA who took off in mid-2025 after he made tweaks to his method. He has plus energy however can solely hit fastballs and hangers, and he strikes out practically a 3rd of the time. Tunink and Elkins are former highschool draftees who every signed for a little bit greater than $400,000. Each of them have large instruments however struck out roughly 30% of the time within the decrease ranges. Gauthier and Perez are smaller, well-rounded second basemen (Gauthier performs in every single place, Perez ultimately would possibly) who’re good substitute gamers. Gauthier was a greater match for the three-man bench period, when his skill to feasibly cowl a number of positions made him a roster match regardless of fringy instruments throughout the board. Keith is Newell’s right-handed complement, with much more juice however a really grooved swing.
Depth Starters
Samuel Sanchez, RHP
Payton Martin, RHP
Chris Campos, RHP
Sanchez, 20, is a bodily A-ball pitcher with a simple supply. He throws high quality fastball strikes along with his driving 90 mph heater, however his secondary pitches aren’t very nasty. Martin and Campos are athletic, undersized righties who wrestle to pitch off their fastballs and have to work backwards greater than is typical of an enormous league starter.
System Overview
The Dodgers have discovered myriad methods to lean into their monetary benefits, and people trickle down into the seek for small wins on the minor league aspect. One of many causes they accomplish that properly on the margins is that, properly, their guys on the margins are fairly attention-grabbing. Whether or not because of their favorable location, the possibility to sneak a World Collection ring onto the mantle, or as a result of they’re prepared and capable of pay prime greenback (comparatively talking), the Dodgers get their choose of minor league free brokers.
Additionally they play the penny slots. For instance, take one other look in any respect these relievers with large fastballs or different outlier traits and no skill to throw strikes. No a type of guys is especially prone to develop sufficient management to contribute meaningfully, but when simply certainly one of them does, the Dodgers may have discovered a leverage reliever out of nowhere. The power of the massive league membership permits and encourages large, low chance swings like this: These are the one forms of gamers who’re going to be able to breaking via to the massive league roster, so that you would possibly as properly accumulate a bunch of them and hope certainly one of them figures it out. In the same vein, they’ve been in a position to make use of mid-six-figure draft bonuses to coax some toolsy excessive schoolers into the org.
Regardless that the Dodgers are perpetual patrons, they nonetheless discover a strategy to commerce for prospects fairly ceaselessly. They stick their noses into multi-team offers and commerce for gamers who have been just lately drafted or signed to allow them to get their dev staff’s palms on them early within the participant’s profession. Zyhir Hope, Mike Sirota, River Ryan, Christian Zazueta, James Tibbs III… the listing is lengthy. Buying gamers early of their professional careers prevents the kind of short-term roster surplus that may plague groups with a lot of star large leaguers who can’t be usurped by most prospects. When the Dodgers have a Michael Busch (a rattling good participant, however not Freddie Freeman), he will get flipped for a number of invaluable items, and the Dodgers snowball their gamers the best way the Rays are likely to, simply with a a lot larger octane monetary gasoline.
The Dodgers’ 2025 DSL group was uncharacteristically shallow as a result of they used their pool area to signal Roki Sasaki. As a lot as anybody org can field out total continents, the Dodgers are doing that. Their international clout tends to provide them higher entry to the perfect Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese gamers, and so they’re additionally working a facility in Africa with out a lot competitors there. Few groups would have the ability to bankroll some of these items, not to mention execute it properly. The Dodgers do each and are arguably the perfect total franchise in American sports activities proper now. This method is superior and among the best handful within the recreation regardless of missing a lot polished influence pitching.