Miguel Rojas won’t be watching the 2026 World Series from the usual vantage point of a player on the field. Instead, the now former Dodger will be at American Family Field for Game 1 on Friday as part of MLB’s broadcast and coverage team.
Rojas, along with Peyton Tolle of the Boston Red Sox and Ernie Clement of the Toronto Blue Jays, has been named a World Series correspondent. According to a statement on MLB.com, Rojas will attend Media Day for Game 1 and provide coverage in Spanish while working with MLB Español. He will also work closely with MLB Español to deliver Spanish-language coverage and interview some of the top coaches and players from both clubs.
That assignment comes just eight days after the Dodgers’ three-peat hopes came to a crashing end. It also gives Rojas a fresh role immediately after a season that left Los Angeles on the outside looking in for the first time since 2023, while the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays battle for their first-ever title.
Rojas won’t be done with baseball after the Fall Classic wraps up, either. Per Valentina Martinez of the California Post, he plans to play for Tiburones de la Guaira in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League on Nov. 14 and 15.
Elsewhere around the Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani’s 2026 season is already drawing attention after a year that fell well short of his standard. While he’s likely to finish as the runner-up to Pete Crow-Armstrong for the 2026 NL MVP, his third season in Los Angeles was described as the roughest of his Dodgers run. He still hit 30 home runs and turned in strong pitching numbers over 14 starts, but knee and biceps issues in the second half dragged down his production before he finished strong.
Those injuries did not lead to offseason surgery, and the Dodgers remain confident he will return to two-way duties next season. Still, Erik Kratz of the Foul Territory podcast raised the question of whether the club should delay Ohtani’s pitching return until the second half of the 2027 season.
“Hitters go in slumps. The way he was pitching this year shows me this dude wasn’t going into a slump. I do think the value of Shohei for this team is doing both.”
The Dodgers’ roster picture is shifting in another way, too. Their core is getting older, with Kyle Tucker and Andy Pages standing as the only everyday starters who have not yet turned 30. With several prospects pushing for a chance, next season could bring more of a changing-of-the-guard feel.
One of the names to watch is Josue De Paula, who could help shape the club’s next wave of young talent at the big league level. Katie Woo of The Athletic noted that his defense remains a work in progress, but the bat is already a major reason for optimism.
“He’s fully aware of continuing to improve defensively,” Gomes said. “We’ve all seen what he’s capable of in the box, which is incredibly exciting. With that being said, we have a very talented core group already here, so I think it’s finding those opportunities, but also making sure that throughout this offseason and coming into spring training that he continues to improve and gets to that bar and gets to be an above-average defender.”
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