"Literally, when January 1 happened, new year, new — just going back to what I used to do and just being yourself and trusting your ability and believing your stuff. (It’s) kind of going out there with a ‘F you, F it,’ like mindset, and just rolling," Andy Pages said, shrugging off the idea that his breakout is a mystery and not the result of deliberate change.
That mindset has produced the season’s clearest headline: Pages leads the Dodgers and MLB in RBIs and sits atop nearly every offensive category for Los Angeles. Through 56 games he has 13 home runs, 50 RBIs, 63 hits, seven stolen bases, 114 total bases, a.303 batting average, a.548 slugging percentage, a.899 OPS and a 153 OPS+, and his 3.7 WAR ranks first among MLB position players.
Pages’ campaign is littered with decisive moments. He belted three home runs in a May 6 road win over Houston and collected four hits — including a homer and two doubles — at home on May 26 against Colorado. He has a hit in 39 of 56 games and sits on a season pace for roughly 145 RBIs; that projection would push him past Roy Campanella into second place in franchise history and within striking distance of Tommy Davis’ Dodgers single-season record of 153 RBIs set in 1962.
His value is not just offensive: Pages has 12 defensive runs saved in center field, a reminder that the bat is paired with premium defense. That combination is why the Dodgers’ leaderboards look like a Pages highlight reel — he leads the team in home runs, RBIs, hits, stolen bases, total bases, batting average, slugging, OPS, OPS+ and WAR.
A supplementary report once listed Pages as a potential future designated hitter, a projection that feels at odds with the 12 defensive runs saved he has accumulated in center. Pages himself has been blunt about what changed: "We’re working on all the different things I’ve struggled with, trying to improve those every day," he said in Spanish, crediting coach-player work rather than luck. Dodgers coach Dino Ebel echoed the point: "I mean, the guy’s worked extremely hard." The pair point to small, daily fixes rather than a single mechanical overhaul.
Statistically, Pages’ season reads elite and sustainable in snapshots: his 63 hits are tied for fifth in MLB, his.303 average ranks ninth, his.548 slugging is 13th, and his 13 homers are tied for 12th. He is on a theoretical pace for a 10.7 WAR season — a figure that would eclipse Jackie Robinson’s franchise high of 9.6 WAR in 1951 — underscoring how far this campaign could push Dodgers history tables.
If you’re tuning into a dodger game today, Pages is the obvious player to watch, because the question is no longer whether he can get hot in stretches; it’s whether he can maintain this rate of production over the remaining two-thirds of the schedule. His approach—returning to tendencies he trusts, working with coaches on lingering issues and pairing power with defense—creates a plausible path to another level, but the innings ahead include slumps, adjustments by opponents and the usual injury math every contender fears.
What happens next will determine how Pages is remembered this year: sustain the numbers and he will rewrite franchise seasonal pages; drop back toward the mean and this will be a remarkable run that fell short of records. The single, consequential question now is simple and exact — can Andy Pages carry a pace that projects to roughly 145 RBIs and a 10.7 WAR all the way to September?
