Los Angeles Dodgers minor league players
Below is a partial list of Minor League Baseball players in the Los Angeles Dodgers system.
Players
Eliézer Alfonzo Jr.
Eliezer Vicente Alfonzo is an American professional baseball catcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He is the son of former Major League Baseball player Eliézer Alfonzo and the brother of Pittsburgh Pirates minor league player Omar Alfonzo.Alfonzo signed with the Detroit Tigers as an international free agent on July 4, 2016. On November 17, 2025, he signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers that included an invitation to major league spring training.
Maddux Bruns
Maddux John Bruns is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.Bruns grew up in Saraland, Alabama, and attended UMS-Wright Preparatory School. He was named Alabama's Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year and Mr. Baseball as a senior after going 7–0 with a 0.86 ERA and 102 strikeouts and just 13 hits and six earned runs allowed in 49 innings pitched. He committed to play college baseball at Mississippi State.
Bruns was selected 29th overall in the 2021 Major League Baseball draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He signed with the Dodgers for a $2.2 million signing bonus. In his first professional season, he started four games for the Arizona Complex League Dodgers, allowing nine runs on eight hits and seven walks while striking out five in five innings of work. He made 21 starts for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the Class-A California League in 2022, with an 0–2 record and 5.68 ERA. After starting 2023 with Rancho Cucamonga, Bruns was promoted to the Great Lakes Loons of the High–A Midwest League on May 11. Between the two levels, he made 26 starts, with a 0–7 record, a 3.99 ERA and 126 strikeouts in 97 innings. Bruns made 10 starts for the Loons in 2024, with a 3.18 ERA while missing half the season with an elbow injury. After returning from his injury, he made 13 starts in 2025 for the Loons, with a 2–3 record and 5.47 ERA.
Patrick Copen
Patrick Wayne Copen is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.Copen attended Parkersburg Catholic High School in Parkersburg, West Virginia and played college baseball at Marshall University. In 2022, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the seventh round of the 2023 Major League Baseball draft.
Copen signed with the Dodgers and spent his first professional season with the Arizona Complex League Dodgers and Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. He started 2024 with Rancho Cucamonga and was promoted to the Great Lakes Loons. In August, Copen was hit in the face by a line drive causing him to lose vision in his right eye and ending his season. Despite not having regained vision in his eye, he opened the 2025 season with Great Lakes. He made 10 starts with the Loons and another 17 for the Double-A Tulsa Drillers, with a combined 4–7 record and 3.59 ERA.
Charles Davalan
Charles Malcolm Davalan is a Canadian professional baseball outfielder in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.Davalan attended TNXL Academy in Altamonte Springs, Florida. He then attended Florida Gulf Coast University before transferring to Arkansas University. In 2024, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first round of the 2025 MLB draft. He signed with the Dodgers for a $2 million signing bonus. He made his professional debut late in the season with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, playing in eight games
with 17 hits in 34 at-bats.
Mason Estrada
Mason Estrada is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He played college baseball for the MIT Engineers.Estrada attended Covington High School in Covington, Louisiana. With MIT in his sophomore season, Estrada finished with NEWMAC First Team All-Conference, ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Team: Region 1 First Team, and D3baseball.com All-Region Region 1 First Team after going 6-0 with 66 strikeouts and a 2.21 ERA over 40.2 innings pitched.
Estrada had initially transferred to the Tennessee Volunteers while also being a rising prospect for the 2025 MLB draft. MLB mentions Estrada getting a 36 superscore on the ACT, while catching the attention of scouts when showing a consistent fastball at 94-96 mph while on a big league mound with all eyes on him. Also Estrada was throwing mid 80s sliders/cutters that registered as high as 2700 RPMs.
Estrada was drafted in the 7th round, 225th pick in the 2025 MLB draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers, becoming the fifth MIT baseball student-athlete to be selected in the MLB Draft.
Jackson Ferris
Ferris grew up in Mount Airy, North Carolina. He initially attended Mount Airy High School before transferring to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, after his sophomore year. As a junior, Ferris went 8–0 with a 0.55 ERA and 86 strikeouts in innings pitched. Ferris pitched for Team USA during the summer prior to his senior season. He was a teammate of fellow top 2022 draft prospect Elijah Green. Ferris signed to play at Ole Miss in November 2021 during the early signing period. He had initially committed to play at North Carolina State, but flipped his commitment at the beginning of his junior year. Ferris was named a preseason All-American by Baseball America entering his senior season.
The Chicago Cubs selected Ferris in the second round with the 47th overall pick in the 2022 Major League Baseball draft and he signed on July 30, 2022, for an over-slot signing bonus of $3,005,000. He began his professional career in 2023 with the Class-A Myrtle Beach Pelicans, where he had a 3.38 ERA in 18 starts.
On January 11, 2024, Ferris and Zyhir Hope were traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Michael Busch and Yency Almonte. Ferris was selected to participate in the inaugural "Spring Breakout" minor league showcase during spring training 2024. He was assigned to the High–A Great Lakes Loons to begin the 2024 season and was the team's opening day starter. In 20 starts for the Loons, he was 4–4 with a 3.39 ERA and 119 strikeouts. Ferris was promoted to the Double–A Tulsa Drillers on August 3 and he made seven starts for them down the stretch, with a 1–3 record, 2.54 ERA and 26 strikeouts. Ferris was selected as the Dodgers Branch Rickey Minor League Pitcher of the Year for 2024.
Ferris returned to Tulsa for the 2025 season, where he was named the team's opening day starter. In 26 appearances on the year, he was 10–7 with a 3.86 ERA and 135 strikeouts.
Nick Frasso
Nicholas Paul Frasso is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.Frasso played college baseball for the Loyola Marymount Lions. He began his freshman season as a starter before being moved to the bullpen and was named to the West Coast Conference All-Freshman team. Frasso was named second team All-WCC as a sophomore after going 2–2 with 10 saves and a 2.22 ERA in 19 appearances. In 2019, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
Frasso was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the fourth round of the 2020 Major League Baseball draft. He was assigned to the Low-A Dunedin Blue Jays in 2021, where he pitched in three games before suffering a partial tear in the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. Frasso returned to Dunedin at the start of the 2022 season. Frasso had a 0.70 ERA with 48 strikeouts in innings pitched at Dunedin before being promoted to the Vancouver Canadians of the High-A Northwest League.
On August 2, 2022, Frasso and Moises Brito were traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Mitch White and Alex De Jesus. The Dodgers assigned him to the Great Lakes Loons, where he allowed only one earned run in innings the rest of the season. In 2023 he made 21 starts for the Double-A Tulsa Drillers and four for the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers, pitching to a combined 4–6 with a 3.77 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 93 innings.
On November 14, 2023, the Dodgers added Frasso to their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. He underwent labrum surgery in November 2023, necessitating a year long recovery and causing him to miss the entirety of the 2024 campaign.
Frasso started on Opening Day for Oklahoma City in 2025, his first game action in over a year. After beginning the season in the rotation and struggling, Frasso was moved to the bullpen. He pitched in 43 games, with a 6–1 record and 5.49 ERA with 68 strikeouts. On September 26, 2025, Frasso was placed on the 60-day injured list due to an undisclosed injury, ending his season. On November 21, he was non-tendered and became a free agent. The Dodgers re-signed Frasso to a minor league contract on December 13.
Austin Gauthier
Gauthier attended South County High School in Lorton, Virginia, where he batted.410 as a senior with 20 RBIs, 22 runs and 19 stolen bases and was named a Virginia High School Coaches Association All-Star He played college baseball for Hofstra University. He hit.285 in 145 games for the Hostra Pride over four seasons with 14 homers, 73 RBI and 24 steals. As a senior, he was named to the All-Colonial Athletic Association First Team. He also played collegiate summer baseball with the FCA Braves of the Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate Baseball League and the Vermont Mountaineers of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
On July 27, 2021, Gauthier signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a non-drafted free agent. He began his professional career that year in the Arizona Complex League. hitting.255 in 30 games Gauthier split the 2022 season between the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and the Great Lakes Loons, hitting.268 in 105 games. In 2023, he started with the Loons and was promoted to the Double-A Tulsa Drillers, hitting a combined.316 in 124 games with 12 homers and 59 RBI. The Dodgers invited him to major league spring training in 2024 as a non-roster invitee. Gauthier was selected to participate in the inaugural "Spring Breakout" minor league showcase during spring training 2024. After 24 games at Tulsa, Gauthier was promoted to the Triple-A Oklahoma City Baseball Club on May 7. Between the two levels, he played in 130 games, batting.253 with six homers and 48 RBI. He returned to Oklahoma City in 2025, played in 118 games, and batted.259.
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