The 2026 Dodgers team is one of the best to ever to play the game, with the very real opportunity to be the all-time best. Fans are well aware of the team’s star power, with future first-ballot Hall of Famers Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, and Shohei Ohtani leading the way.

But what about the next generation of Dodgers – the young men making their way through the team’s development process known as The Pipeline?

Fans can access the Dodgers Top-30 prospects at MiLB Pipeline, which provides brief scouting reports and their respective statistical performances. Nonetheless, fans should take the time to watch these players perform by watching Triple-A Oklahoma City (Comets), Double-A Tulsa (Drillers), High-A (Great Lakes Loons), and Single-A (Ontario Tower Buzzers) games.

A few, early season game observations:

Josue De Paula, the Dodgers number one prospect, will not turn 21 years of age until May 24, 2026 and is slashing .341/.442/.500 in Double-A. Offensively, he passes every eye test – solid mechanics, patience, seldom chases pitches out of the strike zone, uses the entire field, with easy power. Defensively he is a work in progress, with below average speed and arm strength. At this point in his development, he is a bat first and a marginal defensive left fielder. Some have questioned whether he might eventually move to first base.

De Paula isn’t the only highly regarded outfielder in the Dodgers pipeline. In fact, the team’s top four prospects are all outfielders: De Paula, Zyhir Hope (21), Eduardo Quintero (20), and Mike Sirota (22). They all pass the eye-test as future Major Leaguers. The Dodgers current Top-30 includes a total of 12 outfield prospects at different stages of development. Twenty-three year old outfielders James Tibbs III (number 10) and Zach Ehrhard (number 17) are playing extremely well in Triple A, where Tibbs III is slashing .296/.400/.716/1.116, and Ehrhard .333/.385/.522/.907.

All of these young, talented outfielders will not be Dodgers – some will reach their talent plateau before the show, others may change positions, and some will be used as trade capital to improve the talent level in other positions. Watch them play! Who passes your eye-test?

The future is bright for the next generation of Dodgers outfielders.

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