Andy Pages followed up a solid rookie campaign with a stellar sophomore season where he placed second on the team in home runs behind Shohei Ohtani. Despite a horrible postseason, he had his bright spots, including a season saving catch in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series.
The Dodgers attempted to bolster their corner outfield spots by bringing back Teoscar Hernández and signing Michael Conforto, with Pages penciled in as the primary center fielder. Pages trudged through the gates slowly,
as a subpar spring training led to him struggling mightily to begin the season.
The Dodgers were unbeatable to open the season, starting 8-0, while Pages collected just three hits over his first 25 at-bats of the year. His bat began to emerge from its season opening slumber during the team’s first road trip, where he homered in two straight games against the Washington Nationals. After another silent homestand, he once again found his power during the team’s second road trip, where he homered in the two games against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
It was during that series against Chicago where Pages’s brief sophomore slump vanished. Pages had just two multi-hit games over his first 22 games of the season, yet he ended the month with an eight game hit streak where he had five multi-hit games. Pages slashed .545/.571/1.000 over his hitting streak, launching four home runs and driving in nine. From that point forward Pages remained a consistent force at the middle and bottom of the Dodgers batting order.
Pages in 2024 struggled with his patience at the plate, needing 76 at-bats to work his first big league walk and finishing with an on-base percentage at .305. Pages demonstrated good at-bats early on in the season, as he sported a .370 on-base percentage by the end of April, but he fell back into his old habits throughout the rest of the season.
Pages had walked nine times over his first 28 games of the season, where he also hit primarily at the bottom of the order. Once he received a promotion to the middle third of the lineup, his patience at the plate went out the window, as over his final 128 games of the season, he walked just 20 times, giving him as many walks as he had in his rookie season. His 3.9 percent walk rate ranked fourth lowest in the entire league from May 1 until the end of the regular season, and he finished with a 4.5 percent walk rate on the season, ranking seventh worst in the league.
For a team like the Colorado Rockies, there is the Coors Field effect, the notion that hitters who spend half the season playing at a stadium with the highest altitude will have more favorable stats at home. For Pages, 2025 introduced the Dodger Stadium effect, as he was at his best playing in front of the home crowd.
Pages’s first four home runs of the season all came on the road. His next one hit on the road came nearly four months later on Aug. 21, nearly four months removed from his most recent one hit on Apr. 23 at Wrigley Field. Pages hit his first home run at home on Apr. 27 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and he proceeded to crush another 15 home runs all at Dodger Stadium. At home, Pages slashed .325/.369/.594 with 19 home runs and 56 RBI. His home batting average was tied with Diamondbacks shortstop Geraldo Perdomo for fourth best in baseball, his 19 home runs at home were tied for 10th best with Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor, and his 165 wRC+ at home ranked seventh best in baseball and first among all National League outfielders. Outside of Dodger Stadium, Pages was one of the worst hitters in baseball on the road, as he sported .221/.257/.336 slash line in 76 road games, with his 63 wRC+ ranking seventh worst in all of baseball.
Pages established himself as the go-to center fielder in the everyday lineup, and he made massive strides defensively after a solid rookie season. Pages ranked 13th among all qualified fielders in fielding value (third among NL outfielders), ranked seventh among all qualified outfielders in outs above average, and really stood out with a cannon in center field, ranking eighth in baseball in arm strength and 12th in baseball in arm value.
Pages ended the regular season on a similarly sour note that he had to begin the regular season, as in the final six game road trip, he slashed just .125/.160/.375 with two of his three hits going for home runs. Pages spent the majority of the regular season hitting in the six or seven holes in the starting lineup, finding the majority of his success at the bottom of the order. In the postseason, Pages hit in both latter half spots for both of the Wild Card series games against the Cincinnati Reds, going hitless across nine at-bats. This prompted a demotion in the lineup, as Pages spent the next three games batting eighth before being sent to the very bottom of the lineup for the next nine games he started.
Pages had one base hit in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Philadelphia Phillies before his bat went silent over his next 11 at-bats throughout the series. He had his most successful series against the Milwaukee Brewers, where he had two hits including a decisive RBI double in Game 2. He managed just one more hit in the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays, and Pages was not in the starting lineup for both Games 6 and 7 while being replaced defensively in both Games 3 and 5. He finished the postseason with a horrible .078/.113/.098 slash line with one double and one RBI, striking out 11 times and failing to draw a walk. After having a solid rookie showing where he became the youngest Dodger in team history to have a multi-home run game in the postseason, Pages now carries a career .114/.151/.214 slash line in the playoffs. His -3 wRC+ ranks third worst in postseason history out of all players with at least 70 plate appearances.
The numbers would indicate a postseason to forget, but Pages had a pair of moments that were instrumental in helping the Dodgers repeat as World Series champions. Pages came up to bat in the bottom of the 11th inning with the bases loaded and two outs in Game 4 of the NLDS. He tapped a ground ball back to the pitcher, Orion Kerkering, who proceeded to bobble the ball, panicked and threw an errant throw past the catcher J.T. Realmuto, allowing Hyeseong Kim to score the series winning run that sent the Dodgers to the NLCS.
After having his role as a starter removed in the final two games of the World Series, Pages was brought on as a defensive replacement for Tommy Edman in center field in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7. Yoshinobu Yamamoto found himself in a bases loaded jam with only one out, and after a game saving play from Miguel Rojas for a crucial second out, Ernie Clement smacked a first pitch low curveball to the gap deep in left center field. Kiké Hernández tracked the ball down with his back facing home plate, but Pages collided into Hernández and somehow managed to make the catch, sending the game and the fate of the series into extra innings.
2025 particulars
Age: 24
Stats: .272/.313/.461, 27 HR, 86 RBI, 27 2B, 13 SB, 74 R, 29 BB, 135 K, 113 wRC+, 3.8 rWAR, 4.1 fWAR
Salary: $770,000
Game of the year
During the Dodgers first meeting of the season at home against the San Diego Padres, Pages was drilled by an inside fastball from Dylan Cease, prompting both benches and bullpens to empty. During the altercation, Padres manager Mike Schildt was seen barking at Pages from the dugout, yelling, “Who the f**k do you think you are?” Pages gave Schildt and the rest of the Padres a formal introduction as to who he is, going a perfect 4-4 the following game on June 17, smashing a pair of home runs, while driving in three and scoring three runs in an 8-6 Dodgers victory.
Roster status
Andy Pages has 1 year and 155 days of MLB service time and has one option remaining.
