Under is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Scouting studies had been compiled with data offered by trade sources in addition to my very own observations. That is the fifth yr we’re delineating between two anticipated reduction roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column under: MIRP for multi-inning reduction pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning reduction 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 might be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview might be discovered right here.
All the ranked prospects under additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the positioning gives that includes sortable scouting data 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 examine prospects throughout farm programs. 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 KnowAdrian Torres, LHPEduardo Rojas, CShai Romero, RHPJoseph Deng Thon, RHP
Torres is a well-built Panamanian lefty who obtained the second most cash of any Dodgers signee in 2025, after Roki Sasaki. He’ll peak within the 94-96 mph vary and has a great slider. Rojas is an 18-year-old Venezuelan switch-hitting catcher who has an awesome wanting 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 current dwell BP. Deng Thon is a 6-foot-6 righty from Sudan who seems like Kevin Durant throwing a baseball.
Second Base and Different IssuesAustin Gauthier, 2BYeiner Fernandez, 2B/CNicolas Perez, MIF/LFSean McLain, INFEduardo Guerrero, INF
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 little bit spark plug with an reverse subject strategy, however he’s robust 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 could possibly 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 each side of the plate. His bat pace is effectively under 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 the decrease minors, however at 19, he’s nonetheless younger for Excessive-A.
A Plus Secondary ProvidingLivan Reinoso, RHPRyan Brown, RHPKelvin Ramirez, RHPRicardo Montero, RHPMaddux Bruns, LHPCam Day, RHPMarco Corcho, RHP
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 totally different colleges (Chesapeake School, Erskine School, 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 short 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, nevertheless it’d be an awesome story if he even briefly reaches the bigs.
Brown is a wild 22-year-old righty from Ball State with an excellent lengthy, stiff arm motion, and a plus-plus changeup. He’ll sit about 95, however he has walked practically 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 practically two batters per inning within the 2024 ACL. Bruns is a 22-year-old lefty and former first spherical choose. For some time he appeared like a Food regimen Carlos Rodón, with plus stuff undercut by his wildness. Currently he’s been injured (a rib fracture initially recognized 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 robust 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 reduction at Nice Lakes to date in 2025 and must be monitored as a result of he has plus arm power and uncooked breaking ball spin. Marco! Corcho! It usually feels just like the Colombian reliever is trying to find the plate along with his eyes closed as a result of he tends to scatter his stuff everywhere, however he sits 97 and his upper-80s slider is nasty when positioned. He’s a bodily mature 19-year-old at present figuring out of the Rancho bullpen.
Toolsy Guys with Excessive Hit Device DangerChris Newell, OFJaron Elkins, OFJoe Vetrano, 1BBrendan Tunink, OF
This can be a fairly self-explanatory group. Newell is a bodily lefty-hitting outfielder at Tulsa who has Okay’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 price in 2024. Vetrano, drafted out of Boston School within the 2023 fifth spherical, is much like Newell besides he performs first base. Tunink is a left-handed hitting model of Elkins drafted final yr and signed away from a Notre Dame dedication for about $400,000.
System Overview
Though they’re perennial contenders who are inclined 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 programs in baseball. How are they capable of preserve their system flush with expertise? For one, the Dodgers make their fair proportion of trades for prospects themselves, and infrequently after they do, they’re getting a number of gamers again. There are a number of examples throughout the previous couple of seasons by which they’ve executed trades like this, dealing good position gamers who aren’t fairly ok to play for the massive league membership in change 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 choose. 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 usually 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 large, and likewise 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 ok to crack the massive league roster (the Dodgers’ championship squad had only a few homegrown gamers), they’re usually ok 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 prime 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 instrument analysis on this org has been blended. There isn’t a single hitter with plus hit instrument 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 believed they had been going to, and it looks like that’s a believable final result for principally each hitter on this listing. The Kellon Lindsey/Alex Freeland/Eduardo Quintero/Joendry Vargas/Emil Morales cluster towards the highest of the listing will probably take care of some fairly severe attrition over the subsequent two seasons as the fellows with defective hit instruments reveal themselves extra clearly.
General, that is in all probability the most effective 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 displaying any indicators of slowing down.
