{"id":662684,"date":"2026-04-04T12:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:46:15","slug":"dodgers-news-prospect-placements-shohei-ohtani-emmet-sheehan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662684\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers news: Prospect placements, Shohei Ohtani, Emmet Sheehan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The minor league season is now underway in full, with all four Dodgers affiliates playing games on Friday night for the first time this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">James Tibbs III <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/los-angeles-dodgers-prospects\/112204\/james-tibbs-oklahoma-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is piling up extra-base hits<\/a> alongside Zach Ehrhard in the Triple-A Oklahoma City outfield, and River Ryan is set to start for the Comets on Saturday. Alex Freeland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/dodgers-roster\/111481\/opening-day-roster-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is in the majors<\/a>, platooning at second base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Those 16 players were all ranked among the Dodgers\u2019 top 10 prospects entering 2026 by at least one of Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs, ESPN, and The Athletic. The other two mentioned on top-10 lists are pitcher Jackson Ferris (fifth at BA, ninth at ESPN, 10th at The Athletic) and outfielder Ching-Hsien Ko (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7007474\/2026\/02\/02\/dodgers-2026-top-20-prospects-keith-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eighth at The Athletic<\/a>), and both are currently in extended spring training, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fdodgers%2Fnews%2Fwhere-dodgers-top-prospects-will-begin-the-season%3Ft%3Dmlb-pipeline-coverage\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per Jim Callis at MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Another notable prospect also at extended spring training, per Callis, is shortstop Kellon Lindsey, the speedster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/dodgers-mlb-draft\/2024\/7\/14\/24198563\/mlb-draft-kellon-lindsey-dodgers-first-round\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drafted in the first round in 2024<\/a> and ranked as high as 12th in the system by Baseball Prospectus and The Athletic. Lindsey played 28 games for Class-A Rancho Cucamonga in 2025 before going on the injured list in May. Outside of four rehab games in the Arizona Complex League, Lindsey didn\u2019t play after July 10 last year. He played in one major league game this spring, on March 21, the last day of camp in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe looked like a major-league starter, and not a guy that\u2019s cutting his teeth,\u201d Roberts said of the way Sheehan finished. \u201cIt\u2019s a tough lineup in the sense for a right-handed pitcher, there\u2019s a lot of left-handed hitters. \u2026 I do think it was a step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The minor league season is now underway in full, with all four Dodgers affiliates playing games on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,38410,41194,8505,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-662684","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-dodgers-news-notes","11":"tag-dodgers-prospects","12":"tag-dodgers-links","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-dodgers","15":"tag-ladodgers","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-losangelesdodgers","20":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116346512252603407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662684","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=662684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}