The Los Angeles Dodgers don’t tend to keep prospects under the team's current ownership group, oftentimes dealing them for win-now names. It helped them land Manny Machado in 2018 and Mookie Betts in 2020, to varying results.
The team’s future outfield, Eduardo Quintero, Josue De Paula, and Andy Pages, represent the next batch of prospects who could either see the field in the next few years or be traded by Andrew Friedman for current stars.
Dodgers Way’s Katrina Stebbins believes it’s a “dice roll” figuring out whether all of them, or any of them, will actually see the field for LAD.
“The Dodgers will almost certainly sign or trade for outfielders who could complicate this prospect trio's path to the majors leagues — this is a constant problem for the Dodgers that's currently complicating both Ryan Ward and Dalton Rushing's futures — but Teoscar Hernández's contract being up after 2028 (maybe 2027, if the Dodgers don't exercise their club option) lines up nicely with Quintero's expected arrival in the majors,” Stebbins wrote.
“Baseball America projects that the Dodgers' outfield in 2029 will be populated by De Paula in left, Quintero in center, and Andy Pages in right.
“Whether or not any of them will make it to the majors with the Dodgers is a dice roll. Apart from Rushing, their last four No. 1 prospects (Alex Verdugo, Gavin Lux, Keibert Ruiz, Diego Cartaya) have all been dealt to other teams. But if the Dodgers keep Quintero, De Paula, and/or Hope, they're lined up for a potential-filled outfield within the next three seasons.”
The way things look now, the Dodgers could trade any or all three of them for the right needle-mover for an all-in three-peat push in 2026. Then again, a looming lockout in 2027 threatens to take down the very system Los Angeles has so effectively exploited under owner Mark Walter.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said his team will ruin baseball. That doesn't exactly sound like an announcement of the team committing to its prospects.