Andy Pages () (born December 8, 2000) is a Cuban professional

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for the

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(MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2024.

Career

Los Angeles Dodgers

Minor leagues

Pages signed with the

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

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that year, hitting .229. The following season, with the rookie level

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, 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

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. He was assigned to the

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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

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All-Star, and he was also named

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

Tulsa Drillers The Tulsa Drillers are a minor league baseball team based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The team, which plays in the Texas League, is the Double-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers major-league club. Stadium The Drillers play at ONEOK Field (pronounc ...

of the Double-A

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, hitting .236 with 26 home runs and 80 RBI. On November 15, 2022, the Dodgers added Pages to their 40-man roster to protect him from the

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. Pages returned to Tulsa to begin the 2023 season where he hit .284 in 33 games. He was promoted to the Triple-A

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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.

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

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that day against the

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and singled in his first MLB at-bat off

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. Pages hit his first major league home run off Grant Hartwig of the

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on April 21. On May 3, he had four hits, including his first MLB walk-off RBI in a game against the

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. In 116 games, Pages batted .248 with 13 home runs and 46 RBI. He was hitless in two at-bats in the

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. In Game 5 of the

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, Pages hit two home runs, becoming the first Dodgers rookie to homer twice in a single playoff game. He had a total of four hits, in 17 at-bats in the series. He was on the active roster for the

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but did not appear in the series, in which the Dodgers won in five games.

2025

On April 28, 2025, Pages was named the National League Player of the Week, co-winning with

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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

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. On June 17, Pages hit his first career multi-home run game against the

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as he went 4-for-4 with 2 home runs and 3 RBIs in an 8-6 victory.

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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 21st-century Cuban sportsmen Ogden Raptors players Oklahoma City Baseball Club players Oklahoma City Dodgers players Tulsa Drillers players