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Andy Pages, nicknamed "Big Dog", is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2024.

Early life
Pages was born in Mantua, Pinar del Río, Cuba, to Juana Maria and Liban Pages. He has a younger sister, Elaine. Pages played sports from a young age, and though he enjoyed basketball, soccer, and volleyball, he showed a particular interest and aptitude for baseball. == Career ==
Career
Early years in Cuba By 2015, Pages was a rising star among Cuba’s young players, hitting .364/.484/.581 with 25 walks and just three strikeouts in 161 plate appearances in the 15-and-under league. At 16, he arranged to be spirited off the island (alongside Jairo Pomares), traveling through Guyana, Curaçao, and Haiti, before crossing into Dominican Republic, in hopes of getting signed by Major League Baseball (MLB). Eight months later, in March 2018, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Pages. Los Angeles Dodgers 2018–2024: Minor leagues Pages signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $300,000 in 2018. The following season, with the rookie level Ogden Raptors, he led the league in extra-base hits with 43 and ranked second in homers (19), RBI (55), total bases (153) and slugging (.651) as an 18-year-old. He did not play a minor league game in 2020 since the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was assigned to the Great Lakes Loons for 2021. He played in 120 games for the Loons, hitting .265 with 31 home runs and 88 RBI. In 2022, he played for the Tulsa Drillers of the Double-A Texas League, hitting .236 with 26 home runs and 80 RBI. Pages returned to Tulsa to begin the 2023 season where he hit .284 in 33 games. Pages appeared in only one game in Triple-A, striking out twice in three at-bats 2024: Call-up to the major leagues After spring training, Pages returned to Oklahoma City to begin the 2024 season and was promoted to the major leagues for the first time on April 16. He started in center field that day against the Washington Nationals and singled in his first MLB at-bat off Patrick Corbin. Pages hit his first major league home run off Grant Hartwig of the New York Mets on April 21. On May 3, he had four hits, including his first MLB walk-off RBI in a game against the Atlanta Braves. In 116 games, Pages batted .248 with 13 home runs and 46 RBI. He was hitless in two at-bats in the 2024 NLDS. He had a total of four hits in 17 at-bats in the series. On June 17, Pages hit his first career multi-home run regular season game against the San Diego Padres as he went 4-for-4 with two home runs and three RBIs in an 8–6 victory. Pages finished the season batting .272/.313/.461 with 27 home runs and 86 runs batted in. In the 2025 NLCS, he had two hits (including a double) in 11 at-bats. before being replaced in the starting lineup before Game 5. In the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7, with the score tied and the bases loaded, Pages replaced Tommy Edman in center field then made a game-saving catch on a long fly ball to extend the game. The Dodgers would go on to win for a second consecutive World Series championship. 2026 Season On April 6, 2026, following the first complete week of the season, Pages was named the National League Player of the Week for the second time in his career after five consecutive multi-hit games while slashing .583/.615/.917 with 14 hits, 2 home runs, and 7 RBIs. == Personal life ==
Personal life
Pages is married to Alondra Pages. Due to the political situation between the U.S. and Cuba that prevented most travel between the countries, Pages did not see his family in person for seven years after he defected, when he visited them during the winter before his call-up in 2024. Pages has become especially close with teammate Teoscar Hernández, who has a history of mentoring players far from home, such as former Toronto Blue Jays teammate Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ==References==
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