Josue De Paula is the highest-ranked Dodgers prospect on average and a consensus top-25 prospect in the sport heading into 2026. After playing the last week of last season with Double-A Tulsa, De Paula is one step closer to the majors and won’t turn 21 until May.
Dylan Hernández for The California Post talked with De Paula, who is in his second straight spring camp as a non-roster invitee, about the challenges ahead:
“Like really stressing the importance of defense,” president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said. “Really, it’s one thing to stress it, it’s another to have deliberate work and being consistent with it.”
Friedman believes his time in major-league camp will be instructive.
“I think he’s seeing that (consistency) with some of our guys, and you really don’t know what that means until you see it and experience it. So we’ve challenged him with that.”
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Andrew Friedman was a guest on Foul Territory on Friday and talked about newcomer Kyle Tucker.
Corner outfielder and first baseman Ryan Ward and left-handed pitcher Ronan Kopp were both added to the 40-man roster in November. Sonja Chen talked to the new Dodgers for MLB.com.
Bill Plunkett at the Orange County Register talked to Evan Phillips, Brock Stewart, and Brusdar Graterol, three relievers working their way back from surgery who will start the season on the injured list.
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