Future Watch: Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Cards, Top Five Prospects

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Future Watch: Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Cards, Top Five Prospects – The Los Angeles Dodgers are not only the champs, but they’re one of the best teams in drafting, signing international free agents, and developing players in the game. Here are five to watch.

Will Smith is their catcher of the present and maybe the future. This University of Louisville standout should have been on the radar of collectors for a while now. He hit eight home runs with a .401 on-base percentage during the pandemic season. Smith hit two postseason homers while driving in 13. Now he has to follow that up. Having driven in 67 runs in 91-career games is a great start. He’s yet to make an error behind the plate in the big leagues.
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Gavin Lux is a top-flight second baseman who was drafted 20th overall by the Dodgers in the 2016 MLB Amateur Draft. The rise for a rookie infielder on a stacked team is hard, and Lux has been clawing for playing time especially last season. Hitting three homers and driving in eight in the 19 games, he was in kept him on the active postseason roster. Lux did get the thrill of hitting a postseason homer, and now he gets the first crack to be a starter in 2021.
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Edwin Rios is a utility player who can play third base or first base plus pinch-hitting duties. This prospect is a run producer, and the fact that the Dodgers drafted him in the sixth round in the 2015 MLB Amateur Draft shows how good their prospect pool is. Rios is the first Dodger to hit his first two homers in Major League Baseball in the same game since Cody Bellinger in 2017. He had eight home runs and a .645 slugging percentage in 2020 plus two homers in the NLCS.
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Andy Pages could be two or three years away from playing in Los Angeles. Pages signed in 2018, he has a high leg kick and then steps in the bucket, a classic right-handed swing. Pages is a good fielder and is now playing some right field. I’ve written about him before, and I’m still on board.
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Diego Cartaya was the top Venezuelan catching prospect so it would make sense that the Dodgers would sign him. The Dodgers have another catcher you say? Well, this prospect is probably three years away, so they’ll worry about all of that down the road. At 6-2, 200, when he hits a long fly there’s usually no doubt it’s going out of the ballpark. His fielding and strong arm are revered, and that makes Cartaya the complete package.
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The Dodgers are still loaded, and collectors should always consider rookies from this organization.

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