Andy Pages (''PAH-hez''; 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.

Career

Draft and minor leagues

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. He appeared in 10 games for the

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and 42 for the Dominican Summer League Dodgers that year, hitting .229. 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. 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. He played in 120 games for the Loons, hitting .265 with 31 home runs and 88 RBI. He was selected as a post-season High-A Central all-star, and he was also named

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and Top MLB Prospect of the league. In 2022, he played for the

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of the Double-A Texas League, hitting .236 with 26 home runs and 80 RBI. On November 15, 2022, the Dodgers added Pages to their

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to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. Pages returned to Tulsa to begin the 2023 season where he hit .284 in 33 games. He was promoted to the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers on May 16. Pages appeared in only one game in Triple-A, striking out twice in three at-bats before tearing the labrum in his shoulder and missing the rest of the season.

Los Angeles Dodgers (2024–present)

2024

After

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, Pages returned to Oklahoma City to begin the 2024 season and was promoted to the major leagues for the first time on April 16. He started in center field that day against the Washington Nationals and singled in his first MLB at-bat off Patrick Corbin. Pages hit his first MLB home run off

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of the New York Mets on April 21. On May 3, he had four hits, including his first MLB walk-off in a game against the Atlanta Braves.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pages, Andy 2000 births Living people Arizona League Dodgers players Baseball players from Havana Cuban expatriate baseball players in the United States Dominican Summer League Dodgers players Glendale Desert Dogs players Great Lakes Loons players Los Angeles Dodgers players Major League Baseball outfielders Major League Baseball players from Cuba Ogden Raptors players Oklahoma City Baseball Club players Oklahoma City Dodgers players Tulsa Drillers players