08/18/2026 Dodger Top 30 Prospect Activity
Pitcher of the Day:
Hitter of the Day: Tibbs III got on base five times and made the most of it. He hit two home runs(25th and 26th), two singles, and a walk. Tibbs now has a .986 OPS after over 500 plate AAA appearances this year.
OKC Dodgers: OKC rotation is basically ex-Dodger starters just trying to get ready or staying ready. Landon Knack years away from his prospect status is trying to make sure they don’t forget about him. Tonight he threw six fantastic innings giving up just three hits and one run. This comes right after he helped the actual Dodger bullpen on August 12 getting eight outs when they really needed it. Tibbs got all the offense.
Tulsa Drillers: De Paula hit his 23rd home run and 6th in August. Sirota didn’t play again. Hainline and Wagner went hitless. They are both slumping hard. Hainline has been at AA all year and for the most part has done well, but in August he has an OPS of just .636 after posting a July OPS of .996. Wagner was promoted from the Loons and just hasn’t adjusted yet, hitting just .139 so far.
Great Lake Loons: The Loons lost a doubleheader but not because of Mairoshendrick Martinus who hit a home run in both games. In the second game his three run home run was crushed to dead center. I tell you the super utility player always does something when I watch him on the MLB App. For the day he went 4 for 5 with two home runs driving in six runs for the day. The big three (Davalan/Quintero/Morales) went one for 11 with 5 k’s in the second game. Not exactly a showcase for the three top 50 prospects.
Ontario Tower Buzzers: Vargas his his 11th home run, and now has an August OPS of 1.133. Probably his best professional month since he was tearing up the DSL with Quintero. In this game Vargas played 3rd base and Caleb Johnson played SS. Caleb Johnson hit his second home run and now has a home run in back to back games. Shelton hit his 34th home run. With Baez now in the Major leagues, if Shelton can have a hot final few weeks, he might be able to win the Minor League Home Run championship. Woo Hoo????
08/16/2026 Dodgers Top 30 Prospect Activity
Pitcher of the Day: Oh my, Jackson Ferris makes an appearance for the first time this year. Easily his best game of the season as Ferris struck out nine of his fifteen outs, giving up only four hits and one walk.
Hitter of the Day: Caleb Johnson hit his first professional home run and he made it a grand slam. Not only a grand slam but a 9th inning grand slam with his team down.
OKC Dodgers: Ryan Ward slugged his 17th home run and also had a single and two walks getting on base four times. Ehrhard walked four times, Tibbs had a single, and Miller had two singles. Bobby Miller followed Jackson Ferris and pitched almost as well as Ferris. Miller got nine outs, two hits, one walk, three strikeouts.
Tulsa Drillers: Normally what Patrick Copen did in this game would get him Pitcher of the Day honors but I went with Ferris. Copen also pitched his best game of the season, getting twenty outs, five hits, one run, one walk, and a whopping ten strikeouts. De Paula launched his 22nd home run. Gelof clubbed his team leading 25th and had a perfect day at the plate with two walks and more importantly, zero K’s. Vetrano hit his 9th home run after clubbing his 8th last night.
Great Lake Loons: A lot of nice pitching performances today with Tyler Gough adding his name to the list. Gough got eighteen out, two hits, two runs, three walks, and six strikeouts. Until Friday Davalan was having a huge week, but he went hitless on Friday, took Saturday off and went hitless again on Sunday. It was a very quiet day for the Loons with Morales hitting one double, Elkins one single, Perez two walks, and Martinus one single. Quintero took the day off. No, he’s not headed to AA. Yet
Ontario Tower Buzzers: The Tower Buzzers were losing 5 – 1 in the top of the 9th but scored 9 runs to win easily 10 – 5. The red hot Lindsey was held hitless but the even hotter Joendry Vargas slashed two doubles. Ko had two hits and a walk. Vargas played SS in this game. Haven’t seen Aiden West for a while.
08/15/2026 Dodger Top 30 Prospect Activity
Pitcher of the Day: By default this will go to Marlon Nieves. Marlon only gave up one hit in five innings but he also walked five in five innings which is why I haven’t been able to commit to him. Still, he’s hard to hit and if the command comes, that is why he is on many top 30 Dodger prospect lists.
Hitter of the Day: Kellon Lindsey had a triple and home run. It was back to back nights with a home run for the speedy Lindsey giving him eight on the year.
OKC Dodgers: Ehrhard had two singles, Ward one single, and Tibbs one single. Noah Miller was 0/3. While the Dodger bullpen continues to struggle, Halvorsen picked up another AAA save.
Tulsa Drillers: Tulsa faced two of the best pitching prospects in baseball on Friday and Saturday Night and it showed. They were shutout for 17 outs by Kade Anderson on Friday, and got only one run against Ryan Sloan in the same 17 outs. The only person to reach Sloan was non-prospect Joe Vetrano who hit his 8th home run. De Paula had two singles, Hainline had one single, Wagner zero hits. Sirota sat this one out. Given that infield minor league journeyman Taylor Young, I’m not quite sure why one of Davalan or Quintero are not in AA right now.
Great Lake Loons: Quintero got on base four times with two singles and two walks. Emil Morales, drove in three runs with two singles, Elkins had two singles and walk, and Nico Perez popped a double.
Ontario Tower Buzzers: Vargas had three more hits including a double. Ko had one single. Caleb Johnson was drafted this summer in the 13th round. Interesting that he is playing SS when the Tower Buzzers have three other SS on the roster in Lindsey/Vargas/West. His first game was on August 6th and going into this game he had just two hits in 16 at-bats. In this game he smacked two singles, but as you will see in the next two recaps he was just getting started.
08/14/2026 Dodgers Top Prospect Activity
Pitcher of the Day: Aidan Foeller got fifteen outs in relief of Fox, and basically dueled the top pitching prospect in baseball Kade Anderson to a draw. Foeller was fresh off of making the MLB Pipeline Top Dodger 30 prospect list and looked very much like he belonged on the list.
Hitter of the Day: Gelof had one of the two hits off of Kade Anderson and then drilled his 24th home run after Anderson left the game.
OKC Dodgers: The big news was Glasnow doing a rehab game and he did what you’d expect someone like Glasnow to do in AAA. He struck out eight of his eleven outs giving up zero runs. On the hitting side it was quiet as Ward had a double, Tibbs and Miller had singles while Ehrhard went hitless.
Tulsa Drillers: DePaula/Sirota/Hainline/Wagner all went hitless.
Great Lake Loons: Gagnon got only twelve outs was undone by shoddy defense giving five runs but only two were earned. He struck out seven of those twelve outs. Quintero banged out two singles, Elkins had one single, and Martinus had one single. Davalan/Morales went hitless, not something I have had to type very often this summer.
Ontario Tower Buzzers: Lindsey had two hits including his 6th home run, Vargas had two hits with no K’s, and Ko smacked his 17th home run. Shelton has been having a couple of weeks and went hitless with 2 K’s.
08/12/2026 Top Dodger Prospect Activity
Pitcher of the Day: Going to change it up a little and give this to Emmet Sheehan who pitched his best game of the year. Unfortunately for Sheehan that game was a AAA game and not a major league game. Still, it was good to see him shove back with a great game. Emmet got 17 outs, struck out eight of them, gave up three hits and two walks, and zero runs. He was aided by an excellent catch by Zach Erhrhard in RCF.
Hitter of the Day: Eduardo Quintero(2) had a perfect day at the plate hitting a single/double and two walks moving his OPS for the year upto .944. Per Baseball America Hot Sheet Quintero is one of five minor leaguers this year hitting .300 with 20-plus doubles, 10-plus home runs, 30-plus steals and fewer than 100 strikeouts. (JN)
OKC Dodgers: Ehrhard(16) had two hits, Ward his two hits including his 15th home run, and Tibbs(8) had two hits. Noah Miller(21) had a single giving him at least one hit in every game in August, thus his August TSL is now .432/.450/.514. Pretty good for a guy whose is considered the best defensive infielder in the system.
Tulsa Drillers: De Paula(1) had a double and walk, Sirota two singles, Hainline(22) was 1/4, and Wagner(29) was 2/4. The big hit was Gelof hitting his 23rd home run. Serinwowski(20) only got 14 outs but struck out seven of them while giving up three runs on six hits.
Great Lake Loons: Davalan(6) had a single and two walks, Emil Morales(4) with a single and three walks. The top three hitters had four hits and seven walks. The new cleanup hitter is Nico Perez(17) who had a single and triple and drove in three runs. With that game Nico moved his OPS above .900 and now the top four hitters for the Loons all have an OPS north of .900. Elkins(30) was 0/2 but with two walks, and Martinus(24) had one single.
Ontario Tower Buzzers: Lindsey(13) went 2/4 with a walk and Ko went 2/4. Vargas went hitless for just the 2nd time in August. West and Shelton sat this one out.
Baseball America Drops new Dodger Top 30 List
Baseball America updated their top team lists today, adding in 2026 draft picks and trade deadline additions/subtractions. The Dodgers added two from the 2026 draft Bo Lowrance and Russell Sandefer, lost four in the trade deadline (Zhyir Hope, River Ryan, Brady Smith, Landyn Vidourek), added one from the trade deadline (Jacob Kmatz). The most notable addition was Easton Shelton catching on right at the end as the 30th LAD prospect. Kind of notable because a BA writer had told me that Shelton still had too much swing and miss to be considered a prospect, but here he is. So cool for him.
We have our differences, Baseball America is higher on lower level pitchers than I am. Most of the near the bottom of the top 30 have control problems so I go with athletic hitters instead of big arms who can’t throw strikes.
In the newest update they moved Quintero back to the number two prospect matching my own expectation. I just think Quintero will eventually do everything just a bit better than Sirota. BA is higher on Kendall George than myself or most other lists. I think that is because Chandler Simpson has become a thing, and George is as close to being a Chandler Simpson as anyone else in baseball. The Dodger list is very top heavy, they may not be there now, but basically the first seven names are basically top 50. If Hope and Ryan were still in the organization, it might have been nine top 50. Don’t let anyone tell you the Dodgers aren’t developing massive talent right now. You have four OF with All-Star potential, a slugging SS in High A who is still only 19, and two pitchers who have dazzled this summer and are both now in AA. After that who knows, but I think most people will put these seven prospects in some order. At least I don’t see anyone who should be cracking this seven until next summer.
| Name | My Rank | BA Team |
| Josue De Paula | 1 | 1 |
| Eduardo Quintero | 2 | 2 |
| Mike Sirota | 3 | 3 |
| Emil Morales | 4 | 5 |
| Christian Zazueta | 5 | 4 |
| Charles Davalan | 6 | 7 |
| Zach Root | 7 | 6 |
| James Tibbs | 8 | 11 |
| Bo Lowrance | 9 | 10 |
| Aidan West | 10 | 16 |
| Chase Harlan | 11 | 8 |
| Ching-Hsien Ko | 12 | 14 |
| Kellon Lindsey | 13 | 13 |
| Jackson Ferris | 14 | 15 |
| Kendall George | 15 | 9 |
| Zach Ehrhard | 16 | 12 |
| Nicolas Perez | 17 | 18 |
| Cam Leiter | 18 | 17 |
| Joendry Vargas | 19 | 20 |
| Adam Serwinoski | 20 | 27 |
| Noah Miller | 21 | 25 |
| Elijah Hainline | 22 | 28 |
| Russell Sandefer | 23 | 21 |
| Mairoshendrick Martinus | 24 | NR |
| Tyler Gough | 25 | NR |
| Eason Shelton | 26 | 30 |
| Ryan Ward | 27 | NR |
| Jacob Kmatz | 28 | 19 |
| Logan Wagner | 29 | NR |
| Jaron Elkins | 30 | NR |
| Brandan Tunink | NR | 22 |
| Patrick Copen | NR | 23 |
| Will Gagnon | NR | 24 |
| Marlon Nieves | NR | 26 |
| Sterling Patrick | NR | 29 |
08/11/2026 Dodger Top Prospect Activity
Pitcher of the Day: Tough call so going with two pitchers today. Tradeline acquisition Jacob Kmatz(28) twirled two scoreless innings for Tulsa(AA) striking out four, while 2025 2nd round pick Cam Leiter(18) did him one better with three hitless innings and 5 K’s. It was an almost perfect three innings except for one walk.
Hitter of the Day: Nico Perez( 17) blasted two home runs (8 and 9) and got his OPS close enough to sniff .900.
OKC Dodgers: Ehrhard(16) had three hits including his 16th home run and stole two bases. Normally that would be good enough for HOTD but not today. Noah Miller(21) was perfect with three singles, Ryan Ward(27) had one hit, and Tibbs(8) was 0/3 with two walks. One week after making his 2026 debut, Bobby Miller pitched in relief today and the results were not good. Miller got six outs, gave up three hits, three runs with one walk and one strikeout.
Tulsa Drillers: Hainline(22) had three hits including his 11th home run. De Paula(1) had a single and walk, while Mike Sirota(3) went 0/4 and saw his OPS drop below 1.0 for the first time with Tulsa.
Great Lake Loons: Most of the damage was done by Nico Perez but Davalan(6) had a single/double, Quintero(2) had two singles and two stolen bases(39). Emil Morales(4) was 1/ 4, and Martinus924) was 2/4 and looks to be adjusting to the Loons. After two great starts, Hyun-Seok Jang came back to earth getting only six outs, giving up 4 hits, two runs, one walk, and three K’s.
Ontario Tower Buzzers: Quiet day for the Tower Buzzers. West and Shelton didn’t play. Lindsey was 1/3, Ko 0/4, Vargas did hit a triple in his four at-bats with zero K’s. Osario kept his OPS above .900 with one single and two walks.
Quick Note on how hot Charles Davalan has been. Per Eric Cross Davalan now has more home runs than K’s over his last 30 days. As Vin Scully would tell you, that is DiMaggio territory. Overall in the past 30 days, Davalan has 89 PA, 19 XBH, 9 HR, 8 BB, 7K’s for a triple stat line of .429/.506/.935.
08/09/26 LAD Top Prospect Activity
Pitcher of the Day: Patrick Copen did not make my top 30 but I do still consider him a decent prospect. Today, he showed why, getting fifteen outs, only two hits, zero earned runs, three walks, and seven strikeouts.
Hitter of the Day: Eduardo Quintero(2) did what a top prospect should do. He broke a 6 – 6 tie with his 11th home run in the top of the 9th.
OKC Dodgers: Tibbs III(8) rocked his 2nd home run, Ehrhard(16) had a single and walk, and Noah Miller (21) had a single. The big news was Glasnow getting back on the mound for his first rehab start. Given how Sheehan/Wrobleski/Lauer all pitched in the last seven days it is good thing that Skubal is now a Dodger, that Snell is back, and Glasnow probably two starts away. Oh, Ben Casparius pitched one scoreless innings. Always been a fan, hope he can make it back to the Dodger bullpen and be as effective as he was early in 2025.
Tulsa Drillers: De Paula(1) had double/single and drove in three runs. Sirota(3) was 1/3 with a walk, Hainline(22) 1/4, Wagner(29) 0/3.
Great Lake Loons: Mairoshendrick Martinus(24) hit his first home run for the Loons and also smacked a triple while playing 2nd base. Davalan(6) had two hits including hitting a triple before Quintero hit the go a head home run. Elkins(30) went 0/5. Morales(4) went 0/2 with two walks. Tyler Gough(25) pitched in relief, went two innings, gave up two hits, one earned run and struck out one.
Ontario Tower Buzzers: Oswaldo Osario slugged his eighth home run for the Tower Buzzers in only 125 plate appearances. He’s been hurt a lot and has yet to have season with more than 300 plate appearances but he’s healthy now and making up for lost time. He now has an OPS of .899 showing an excellent eye to go along with his power. Even though this is his 3rd year in the Cal League he is still just 21-years-old. He plays all over just like every other infielder in the Dodgers low minors. Vargas(19) had two more hits to keep his August OPS at a ridiculous 1.173. Marlon Nieves sent five innings, five hits, three earned runs, three walks, five strikeouts. That was the first time since April 7th that Nieves went at least five innings. He has made ten starts this year and has managed only 36 IP. He’s on many Top Dodger 30 lists, but not on mine. He’ll have to do more than simply be a big arm with no control.
08/08/2026 LAD Top 30 Prospect Activity
Pitcher of the Day: Nobody in the top 30 or even in the organization did anything to take this honor today.
Hitter of the Day: Emil Morales(4) banged out his 16th home run for the Loons and pushed his OPS over .900 for the first time this year joining Davalan(6) and Quintero(2) in the plus .900 OPS group. Not a bad 1 2 3 to start a game with. Ah the days when Ohtani/Betts/Freeman all had that plus .900 OPS.
OKC Dodgers: OKC scored 13 runs but of the offense was propelled by ex-Major Leaguer players like Alec Thomas and Kim. Ward did have three hits(27) and a walk, Tibbs III(8) had two hits and a walk, while Ehrhard(16) picked up three walks. Noah Miller(21) was 1/5. Ferris(14) gave up nine runs in 4 2/3 in relief.
Tulsa Drillers: Sirota(2) might have had his worst game since turning professional with three strikeouts in four at-bats. De Paula(1) managed one single and walk in four plate appearances. Wagner(29) had two walks, Hainline(22) had two singles and walk. Jacob Kmatz(28) went one scoreless inning.
Great Lake Loons: Besides Morales no one did anything of note. Quintero had a walk, Elkins(30) had two singles. Mairoshendrick Martinus(24) continues to struggle since his promotion.
Ontario Tower Buzzers: I watched Vargas(19) lace a double to RCF that turned out to be his only hit. Shelton went hitless again, Ko had two singles. Very quiet day for Ontario.
08/07/2026 LAD Top 30 Activity
Pitcher of the Day: Top pitching prospect Christian Zazueta(5) continues to dazzle in AA with six innings, two hit, zero run ball. He walked one and struck out eight. All that in only 69 pitches. Kind of a surprise that the development staff did not let him walk out for the 7th inning.
Hitter of the Day: Joendry Vargas(19) has been left behind by his teammate Eduardo Quintero of the last three years, but he’s doing his best to catch up to him. Vargas had four hits including a double, home run, and stolen base. So far in August, Vargas has gone 12 for 28 with six EBH good for a .462/.500/.808 triple slash line.
OKC Dodgers: Lot of offense in this one. Ehrhard(16) had three hits, Ryan Ward(27) had two hits including a home run, Noah Miller(21) had three hits and made another beautiful play at SS. Tibbs(8) was only 1/5.
Tulsa Drillers: Zazueta was the big story, Sirota(3) had two walks but nothing of significance came from the Top 30 in the offensive department. De Paula(1) didn’t play, looks like Kendall George had knee surgery. So if Kendall George had knee surgery and Zyhir Hope is in Detroit why isn’t Eduardo Quintero or Charles Davalan in Tulsa right now?
Great Lake Loons: Oh, maybe that is why Eduardo Quintero wasn’t in the lineup? Davalan(6) hit a lead off home run, his 19th on the season. Harlan(11) blasted his 4th home run the 1st. Jaron Elkins(3) banged out two hits, one walk, and stole his first base. More importantly in five plate appearances, zero K’s. Emil Morales(4) was 0/4.
Ontario Tower Buzzers: Vargas was most of the offense, but Shelton(26) finally did something this week. It had been a very quiet week for Shelton but he did get on base four times with one single and three walks. Lindsey/West were 0/6.
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 