Andy Pages | |
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![]() Pages with the Great Lakes Loons in 2021 | |
Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 44 | |
Outfielder | |
Born: Mantua, Cuba | December 8, 2000|
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
MLB debut | |
April 16, 2024, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
MLB statistics (through August 17,2025) | |
Batting average | .264 |
Home runs | 33 |
Runs batted in | 116 |
Stats at Baseball Reference | |
Teams | |
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Career highlights and awards | |
Andy Pages (PAH-hess) (born December 8,2000) is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2024.
Pages signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $300,000 in 2018 after defecting from Cuba,where he was a star in the 15-and-under league in 2015,hitting .364/.484/.581 with 25 walks and just three strikeouts in 161 plate appearances. [1] He appeared in 10 games for the Arizona League Dodgers and 42 for the Dominican Summer League Dodgers that year,hitting .229. [2] The following season,with the rookie level Ogden Raptors,he led the league in extra-base hits with 43 and ranked second in homers (19),RBI (55),total bases (153) and slugging (.651) as an 18-year-old. [3] He did not play a minor league game in 2020 since the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was assigned to the Great Lakes Loons for 2021. [4] He played in 120 games for the Loons,hitting .265 with 31 home runs and 88 RBI. [2] He was selected as a post-season High-A Central All-Star,and he was also named Most Valuable Player and Top MLB Prospect of the league. [5] In 2022,he played for the Tulsa Drillers of the Double-A Texas League,hitting .236 with 26 home runs and 80 RBI. [2]
On November 15,2022,the Dodgers added Pages to their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. [6] Pages returned to Tulsa to begin the 2023 season [7] where he hit .284 in 33 games. [2] He was promoted to the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers on May 16. [8] Pages appeared in only one game in Triple-A,striking out twice in three at-bats [2] before tearing the labrum in his shoulder and missing the rest of the season. [9]
After spring training,Pages returned to Oklahoma City to begin the 2024 season [10] and was promoted to the major leagues for the first time on April 16. [11] He started in center field that day against the Washington Nationals and singled in his first MLB at-bat off Patrick Corbin. [12] Pages hit his first major league home run off Grant Hartwig of the New York Mets on April 21. [13] On May 3,he had four hits,including his first MLB walk-off RBI in a game against the Atlanta Braves. [14] In 116 games,Pages batted .248 with 13 home runs and 46 RBI. [15] He was hitless in two at-bats in the 2024 NLDS. [15]
In Game 5 of the 2024 National League Championship Series,Pages hit two home runs,becoming the first Dodgers rookie to homer twice in a single playoff game. [16] He had a total of four hits,in 17 at-bats in the series. [15] He was on the active roster for the 2024 World Series but did not appear in the series,in which the Dodgers won in five games. [15]
On April 28,2025,Pages was named the National League Player of the Week,co-winning with Eugenio Suárez for the 5th week of the season after going 13-for-20 (.650) and slugging 1.250 with four home runs and six RBI in that period,including three doubles and a home run in a three-game home series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. [17] On June 17,Pages hit his first career multi-home run game against the San Diego Padres as he went 4-for-4 with 2 home runs and 3 RBIs in an 8-6 victory. [18]