Josue De Paula is headed back to the Futures Game, and this time he’ll have another Dodgers prospect alongside him.
MLB announced the 2026 All-Star Futures Game rosters, and the Dodgers will be represented by De Paula and Mike Sirota. For De Paula, it marks a second straight trip to the event. He made the most of his first one, earning Futures Game MVP honors last year after launching a three-run homer that helped the National League beat the American League 4-2.
De Paula, the Dodgers’ No. 1 prospect, has kept rolling at Double-A Tulsa. The 21-year-old is hitting .314/.413/.534 with 13 home runs, 60 RBI and 60 runs scored this season.
He is one of 10 players returning for a second Futures Game appearance. The group includes the NL’s Charlie Condon (Colorado Rockies) and Jesús Made (Milwaukee Brewers), who each started the 2025 contest; Alfredo Duno (Cincinnati Reds) and Ethan Salas (San Diego Padres), who started in 2024; and the AL’s Kaelen Culpepper (Minnesota Twins), Leo De Vries (Athletics) and George Lombard Jr.
(New York Yankees), who started in 2025, plus Thayron Liranzo (Detroit Tigers) and Ralphy Velazquez (Cleveland Guardians), who each started in 2024. Liranzo had previously been in the Dodgers system before being traded for Jack Flaherty.
Sirota will be making his Futures Game debut. The Dodgers’ No. 2 prospect has put together a standout season of his own, reaching base in 64 straight games and sitting just 10 short of the all-time MiLB record.
Across High-A and Double-A, the 23-year-old is batting .322/.481/.563 with 12 home runs, 44 RBI and 62 runs scored. He was acquired from the Cincinnati Reds last offseason in the Gavin Lux deal.
The 2026 Futures Game is set for seven innings and will again use the NL vs. AL format, which returned in 2019 after two decades of U.S. vs.
World matchups. The 27th edition will be played at 9:00 a.m.
(PT) on Sunday, July 12th at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
NBC will carry the game exclusively, with Melanie Newman on play-by-play, Yonder Alonso and Sam Dykstra as analysts, and Sande Charles reporting.
MLB, working with MLB Pipeline, Baseball America and all 30 clubs, selected 25 players for each side. Every organization is represented, and eligible players came from all player development leagues.
Nine of MLB Pipeline’s top 10 overall prospects made the cut, along with 11 of the top 15 and 14 of the top 20. The rosters also include 19 former first-round picks, with 10 on the AL side and nine on the NL side, plus 11 players selected in the first round of the 2025 Draft. The rest of the group includes three second-round picks, four third-round picks, three fourth-round picks, two sixth-round picks, and one each from the eighth, 11th and 12th rounds.
Internationally, the two teams feature 15 players from outside the 50 United States, representing five countries and territories. The Dominican Republic leads the way with eight players, followed by four from Venezuela and one each from Canada, Cuba and Taiwan.
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