was third-best in the Dodgers minors in 2025<\/a> among pitchers with at least 40 innings, trailing only Ryan Brown and Alex Makarewich, both of whom pitched in both Class-A levels, and in fewer innings.<\/p>\nAs is the case with many young pitching prospects with live arms, walks are the main bugaboo for Kopp, who issued 42 free passes in those 57 2\/3 innings, with a 16.6-percent walk rate.<\/p>\n
Kopp has a deceptive delivery. He\u2019s a short-strider with a high release height and steep approach angle. Kopp throws everything hard. His fastball sits in the mid-90s and touches 98.9 mph, while his slider averages around 90 mph. Both pitches miss bats\u2014his slider generated a 44% whiff rate and his fastball 32%\u2014but neither found the strike zone more than 50% of the time.<\/p>\n
Kopp was promoted to Oklahoma City in July after a stretch of 15 appearances without allowing an earned run for Tulsa, a span that got to 16 games and 20 2\/3 innings including his first game in Triple-A. He held his own with the Comets, with a 2.53 ERA in 21 games in the high-octane Pacific Coast League, and allowed only one home run in 253 batters faced on the season. He turned 23 years old in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers added pitcher Ronan Kopp to the 40-man roster, ahead of Tuesday\u2019s deadline to set rosters ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,38707,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-438457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-dodgers","12":"tag-ladodgers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers-roster","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesdodgers","18":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115573815099273481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}