The Dodgers are staring at a winter that could shape the next stretch of their run, and one move that should be sitting near the top of the list is an extension for Andy Pages.
Los Angeles has room to take the roster in a few different directions, but Pages has become more than just another young piece. He’s one of the few players on a veteran-heavy club who looks like a real long-term pillar, and that makes his contract situation worth acting on sooner rather than later.
Pages just put together the best season of his career and earned his first All-Star selection along the way. In 134 games and 511 at-bats, he hit .274 with a career-best .811 OPS, 23 home runs, 85 RBIs and 140 hits. He also posted 6.0 WAR, a number that captures how much he contributed across the board.
The defense took a major step forward, too. After being a poor defender as a rookie, Pages turned into one of the game’s top center fielders in 2026, ranking in the 94th percentile among qualified defenders with plus-8 Outs Above Average.
That kind of production matters, but so does his age. The Dodgers have plenty of established players who are already on the wrong side of 30, and their need for more youth is obvious. Pages gives them exactly that: a young cornerstone they can build around while the rest of the roster ages around him.
There’s no urgency in the sense that the Dodgers could lose him right away. Pages is under club control through the 2030 season before free agency, and he’s set to enter arbitration for the first time ahead of the 2027 season, when he’s projected to make roughly $4.9 million.
Still, waiting has a cost. If Pages follows this year with another season at this level, buying out his arbitration years and some free-agent seasons will only get more expensive. What looks manageable now could become a much bigger number later.
Pages has moved from promising prospect to legitimate building block, and for the Dodgers, that makes the decision pretty straightforward. This is the kind of extension that makes sense from every angle.
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