Andy Pages' bonus pool money proves Dodgers' fans judgement is clouded by postseason

Andy Pages had a really bad postseason. As in — a biblically, historically bad postseason. Even in the Wild Card, when the rest of the Dodgers' bats went berserk (before petering out almost entirely throughout the rest of the month), he got zero hits in 10 at-bats. His .100 OBP in that series is thanks only to him being hit by a pitch.

Still, he appeared in every postseason game except Game 5 of the World Series, and fans' ire grew as we watched him flail and fail to step up in big moments. Through 16 games played, he finished with an .078 average and .211 OPS, the worst of any player with 50+ plate appearances in a single postseason. Ever.

It had Dodgers fans getting a little ahead of themselves. "Get this guy off my team" was a common refrain on Twitter throughout and after the postseason.

But we shouldn't forget that Pages had a pretty admirable sophomore season with the Dodgers, and it speaks volumes that a team that never knows or is not willing to figure out how to fit their top prospects into the major league picture found a way to do it for Pages.

And the bonus he received from the pre-arbitration pool is telling. He got $513,082 for his efforts in 2025, 26th out of 105 players.

Dodgers' Andy Pages received over half a million in pre-arbitration bonus pool money

The player leading the pack is, unsurprisingly, Paul Skenes, who got a $3,436,343 bonus. But further down in Pages' tier are Gold Glove winner Dillon Dingler, All-Star Kyle Stowers, and 2024 Rookie of the Year candidate Wyatt Langford.

Pages hit .272 with a .774 OPS during the regular season with 27 homers and 86 RBI and was the Dodgers' fourth-most valuable position player by fWAR. He did manage to top even Teoscar Hernández in strikeouts and came in second on the Dodgers overall behind Shohei Ohtani, but if he can work on his plate discipline, he could be in an even better spot next season.

His postseason failures were mostly forgiven because the Dodgers managed to win, and he saved them (and especially Kiké Hernández) in the bottom of the ninth in Game 7, when he got a better read on Ernie Clement's fly ball to deep left-center and caught it to end the inning with the bases loaded.

Pages, by all estimations, is going to have a good 2026. Becoming more dependable in the postseason is a requirement on a team like the Dodgers, who are going to be there every year for the foreseeable future, but we should probably give him a little bit more grace.