On April 5, Andy Pages, an outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, was experiencing a 3-for-30 slump ten games into the 2025 MLB season.
Pages was hitting.100/.270/.133 with an OPS of.404 on a Dodgers team stacked with talent from top to bottom. Pages faced calls for his demotion throughout April, indicating that his current performance was inadequate.
But in the last few weeks, Pages has completely altered the narrative surrounding his future with Los Angeles. Pages had a.429 batting average and an OPS of 1.226 in his previous 12 games. During that time, he hit four home runs, eight extra base hits, and stole three bases. On Tuesday night in Miami, he went 1-for-5.
Pages’ 1.3 fWAR ranks third among Dodgers players, trailing only Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani. Pages ranks 29th in fWAR across all of Major League Baseball and has cemented himself as a member of the Dodgers core. He has secured a position for himself not only for the remainder of 2025, but for the foreseeable future.
Dave Roberts praises Andy Pages after Dodgers turnaround
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts frequently refers to Pages’ hitting as his “superpower,” according to Ken Rosenthal of Foul Territory. He hits naturally, which has prompted Dodgers coaches and teammates to encourage a slumping Pages to play more freely and loosely in the batter’s box.
“It appears to have liberated him.” He was a big question at the beginning of the season, and now it appears that he may be a member of their core group, integral to what they do,” Rosenthal said on Tuesday.
Pages was the Dodgers’ No. 3 prospect last season. He made his major league debut in mid-April and appeared in 116 games, hitting 13 home runs and posting an OPS+ just above average of 101.
The Dodgers and their fans demand excellence. You can afford to when you’re the reigning World Series champions with a payroll of more than $300 million, so I’m not going to blame anyone who wanted to send Pages back to Triple-A Oklahoma City when he was struggling. But he has unquestionably proven his doubters wrong.
He’s also proving to be a better defender than many people realize. Anyone who watched Tuesday night’s game quickly realized this, if it wasn’t already obvious.
“Andy’s doing great, and I’m happy for him. “He worked hard,” Dave Roberts said when he learned that Pages had been named National League Co-Player of the Week. “As a young player, how do you scuffle and struggle while maintaining confidence and perseverance, only to be rewarded? That’s great. I’m sure there will be many more to come.”
Pages is now on pace for 27 home runs and 6.0 fWAR this season. To put this in perspective, only 11 Major League Baseball players had more than 6.0 fWAR in 2024. Shohei Ohtani was the only Dodger who did it.
We’re dealing with a 24-year-old rising star who the Dodgers can expect to have in center field for years to come.
