{"id":799774,"date":"2026-09-08T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/799774\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:12:25","slug":"dodgers-news-oswaldo-osorio-wins-california-league-player-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/799774\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers news: Oswaldo Osorio wins California League player of week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dodgers minor league infielder Oswaldo Osorio hit .500 last week for the playoff-bound Class-A Ontario Tower Buzzers, and for his efforts captured the final California League player of the week award of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Osorio started at first base, third base, and designated hitter last week for Ontario, and in his five contests had nine hits in 18 at-bats with two doubles, two home runs, six runs batted in, six walks, and six runs scored against the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. He hit a whopping .500\/.625\/.944.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 21-year-old Osorio consolidated his efforts into three three-hit games, and drove in a pair of runs in all three of those contests. He also walked twice on Wednesday and Saturday, setting career highs by reaching base five times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Signed out of Venezuela in 2022, Osorio struggled mightily in his first go-around in Class-A in 2025, hitting .138\/.318\/.233 with a 69 wRC+ and 34.3-percent strikeout rate in 48 games and 201 plate appearances. This with with Ontario, Osorio hit .255\/.363\/.511 with 13 home runs and a 116 wRC+ in 55 games and 223 plate appearances, and cut his strikeout rate to 25.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s a home run from two and a half weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers minor league infielder Oswaldo Osorio hit .500 last week for the playoff-bound Class-A Ontario Tower Buzzers, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,38621,41194,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":["post-799774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-dodgers","tag-dodgers-minor-league-news","tag-dodgers-prospects","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117235832822869823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799774","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=799774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}