After a historically poor postseason a year ago, Andy Pages has turned into one of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ top performers in 2026. Pages is slashing .282/.326/.528 with 15 home runs — 10 of them over his last 30 games — and leads the majors with 56 RBIs while providing Gold Glove-caliber defense in center field. His 2.7 wins above replacement, according to FanGraphs, trails only teammate Shohei Ohtani on a club with the second-best record in the sport.
Pages’ rebound stands in sharp contrast to his 2025 playoff performance, when he went 4-for-51 with 11 strikeouts and no walks and was benched in the middle of the World Series. Among players with at least 50 plate appearances, his .211 OPS that postseason was the lowest ever for a single postseason, the article noted.
The Dodgers staff confronted the slump during spring training. In early February, a group of coaches called Pages into a conference room in Glendale, Arizona, to debrief and restore his confidence. Present were Nelson Cruz, Raul Ibañez and the Dodgers’ hitting coaches, Robert Van Scoyoc and Aaron Bates. They reminded him that the team’s second straight championship included his game-saving catch in Game 7 and told him the slump would not define his career.
Nelson Cruz praised Pages’ mentality and resilience, saying in a phone conversation that he had been concerned the young outfielder might carry last year’s struggles with him but that was not the case. Cruz recounted pulling Pages aside after the meeting and being impressed by how hardened the 24-year-old appeared.
Pages has also drawn on a difficult personal history. He left Cuba at 16 to pursue a major league career; his father once made bats from spare lumber and his mother was a consistent source of support. Apart from a brief visit three years ago, Pages has not seen his family, who rely on box scores and YouTube clips for updates. The article says Cuba has been hit by a severe energy crisis after the U.S. ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and forced the acting government to halt oil shipments early this year, cutting off the nation’s primary source and complicating communications; Pages’ calls home routinely do not go through.
