Christian Romero made the leap from High-A to Triple-A to help Oklahoma City fill a hole in its rotation. On Monday the 22-year-old Dodgers minor league right-hander won Pacific Coast League pitcher of the week honors.
Romero pitched six scoreless innings with six strikeouts and no walks to beat Sacramento on Saturday
. He retired his first 10 batters faced and worked around only a single and double allowed during his longest start of the season.The 22-year-old right-hander is an unheralded prospect,
in the sense that he’s not listed among the Dodgers’ top 30 prospects at Baseball America nor MLB Pipeline.
The Dodgers signed Romero out of Hermosillo, Mexico as an amateur free agent in 2021, and he’s spent the bulk of this season and last with High-A Great Lakes. In 2024 he made similar fill-in starts and bulk appearances in both Double-A Tulsa (six games) and Triple-A (four starts). This year Romero had a 5.03 ERA in 62 2/3 innings for the Loons, with 49 strikeouts and 21 walks before getting called up to fill in for Oklahoma City.
In eight starts for the Comets, Romero has a 4.79 ERA with 30 strikeouts and 14 walks in 35 2/3 innings. Saturday was his second scoreless start in Triple-A, along with five scoreless innings on August 6 at El Paso.
Romero is the second Oklahoma City pitcher to win weekly PCL honors this season, along with Emmet Sheehan for the week of June 23-29. Three Comets hitters won league player of the week honors in 2025 — infielder Michael Chavis (April 7-13), outfielder James Outman (April 21-27), and first baseman/outfielder Ryan Ward (July 7-13).
