Former top-100 prospect Andy Pages established himself as an everyday player in his second Major League season, batting .272/.313/.461 with 27 homers over 624 plate appearances for the Dodgers in 2025. Now settled in as the regular center fielder, Pages’ spot in the team’s plans has yet to truly extend into their longer-term future, as The Athletic’s Katie Woo reports that the Dodgers “have not broached any extension talks with” Pages and his reps at PRIME.
Pages is controlled through the 2030 season already, so he’ll be 30 when he is eligible for free agency in the 2030-31 offseason. There’s no rush for Los Angeles to necessarily lock Pages up already, though since he is on pace to achieve Super Two status and an extra year of arbitration eligibility, an extension would allow the Dodgers to gain some cost certainty over what might be a sharply increasing price tag through Pages’ four arb years.
Then again, money isn’t exactly a pressing concern for the big-budget Dodgers. This same willingness to spend is also a potential reason to forego an extension, as L.A. might want the flexibility to pivot to another top free agent or trade target in the outfield. For instance, the outfield wasn’t necessarily a huge area of need for the club this winter, yet the Dodgers still broke the bank for a four-year, $240MM deal with Kyle Tucker (with $30MM in deferred money and two opt-out clauses).
If Pages “only” continues his 2025 level of production going forward, that still means the Dodgers have a 4.1 fWAR player who contributes above-average (113 wRC+) offense and decent glovework in center field. That doesn’t mean Los Angeles couldn’t move Pages into a corner outfield role if a star center fielder becomes available, or if Tucker opts out or if Teoscar Hernandez isn’t retained when the guaranteed portion of his contract is up after 2027. The Dodgers also have a long list of highly-touted outfield prospects in the pipeline, so any or all of Josue De Paula, Zyhir Hope, Eduardo Quintero, James Tibbs III, or Mike Sirota could soon be on the radar for big-league duty.
This being said, the Dodgers haven’t been shy about locking up players they view as key roster pieces. It could be that the team wants to see one more full year of production from Pages before exploring an extension, just to give the team a little more data. Not that the Dodgers would put more weight on the small sample size of the postseason over the longer sample of regular-season play, but L.A. might also want to see how Pages rebounds from a dreadful .211 OPS over 55 playoff plate appearances in 2025.
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