{"id":109774,"date":"2025-11-21T20:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=109774"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:12:48","slug":"dodgers-outfield-likely-filled-externally-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/21\/dodgers-outfield-likely-filled-externally-near-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider: Dodgers Outfield Not Set in Stone for Present or Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers are all in on winning another World Series ring in 2026, and to do this, they are going to have to fix the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/13\/mlb-offseason-begins-storylines-emerging-gm-meetings\/\" target=\"_self\">hole they have in the outfield<\/a>. For a talented team, their corner outfielders <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/27\/three-trends-to-monitor-as-dodgers-enter-second-half\/\" target=\"_self\">underperformed<\/a> both offensively and defensively last year. Fortunately, the farm system is full of great outfielders, but they are still young. They recently <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/06\/dodgers-designating-former-all-star-for-assignment\/\" target=\"_self\">added<\/a> Ryan Ward to the 40-man roster. He tore up the Pacific Coast League with his bat last year and was scheduled to become a free agent. Problem solved? The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/19\/four-outfielders-dodgers-could-add-2025-offseason\/\" target=\"_self\">free-agent<\/a> rumblings suggest, &#8220;No.&#8221; Now, Senior Editor of Baseball America Josh Norris confirmed it in an interview with Dodgers Territory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108576\" style=\"width: 857px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-108576\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/USATSI_26615052_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"857\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/USATSI_26615052_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/USATSI_26615052_168400885_lowres-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/USATSI_26615052_168400885_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/USATSI_26615052_168400885_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/USATSI_26615052_168400885_lowres-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/USATSI_26615052_168400885_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/USATSI_26615052_168400885_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma City Comets outfielder Ryan Ward (10) warms up before a minor league baseball game between the Oklahoma City Comets and the Sugar Land Space Cowboys at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: \u00a9 BRYAN TERRY\/THE OKLAHOMAN \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Insider: Dodgers Outfield Likely to Be Filled Externally<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThey\u2019re going to trade somebody here for something, or they will sign somebody to fit in the outfield long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh Norris does not expect all three of the Dodgers top outfield prospects Josue De Paula, Zyhir Hope, and Eduardo Quintero to become part of the team\u2019s long-term\u2026 <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4rNKzwpG1p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4rNKzwpG1p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dodgers Territory (@LADTerritory) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LADTerritory\/status\/1991929736508157988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Young Guns<\/h3>\n<p>Josue De Paula and Zyhir Hope got a spring training invite before the 2025 season, and they both got people&#8217;s attention before being optioned. The outfielders ended the year at the Double-A level. De Paula is equipped with impressive power and incredible knowledge of the strike zone. Norris compares him to former Dodgers prospect Yordan Alvarez, who has had an incredible offensive career with the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<p>As for Hope, he is a better defender in the outfield. He was one of the last players optioned before Opening Day last year.<\/p>\n<h3>The Youngest of the Bunch<\/h3>\n<p>Eduardo Quintero was named one of the Dodgers Minor League Prospects of the Year by MLB Pipeline. He is known for having a high baseball I.Q., plays a beautiful outfield, and has a great arm, according to his coaches.<\/p>\n<h3>What the Future Looks Like<\/h3>\n<p>Josh Norris says that the solution to the outfield may be to trade one of these budding stars away. It is the cost of doing business. He says that De Paula is the closest to being major-league ready. If there is a season in 2027, that is.<\/p>\n<p>As baseball fans, hope springs eternal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers are all in on winning another World Series ring in 2026, and to do this, they are going to have to fix the hole they have in the outfield. For a talented team, their corner outfielders underperformed both offensively and defensively last year. Fortunately, the farm system is full of great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":103257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1071,35],"tags":[29032,29169,29033],"class_list":["post-109774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-josue-de-paula","tag-ryan-ward","tag-zyhir-hope"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109774"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109790,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109774\/revisions\/109790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}