Andy Pages is making good on his 2026 resolution after awful Dodgers postseason

Andy Pages' postseason struggles were tough for Dodgers fans to contend with. He had a fantastic sophomore season, hitting 27 homers and improving his defense in center field dramatically, but he had literally the worst October of any player, ever, by a lot of metrics.

The Dodgers were forced to bench him nearing the end of the World Series, and even his game-saving, Kiké Hernández-bulldozing play in Game 7 wasn't enough to erase his flailing at the plate.

On one hand, Pages showed so much promise in the regular season, and is the first homegrown Dodger since Will Smith to really make a lasting impression on the team. On the other, the postseason is what matters, especially to a team like the Dodgers. They don't care about the regular season as long as they do enough to eke into the Wild Card.

Pages said of his struggles, "Last year was a bad moment for me. The only thing I had in my mind at that moment was that these things happen. I just had the bad luck that it happened in the postseason."

One of his goals for the season is have a "more discerning eye at the plate," after he put up a 32% chase rate last season, and his early returns in spring training have given fans reason to be optimistic.

Andy Pages' quest to strike out less going pretty well Dodgers spring training

Pages is hitting well overall in Glendale — .391 with a 1.139 OPS in nine games — but he's also struck out six times in 23 at bats (26% K rate) and only walked once. But, per FanGraphs, he's only swung at 15.9% of pitches outside the zone so far, cutting down his chase rate from last year by over half. He's still not walking a ton, but he's also hitting balls swung at in the zone at a 84.8% clip.

This could be a case of Pages just going cold at exactly the wrong time, or the pressure of the postseason getting to him. Pages is still one of the least experienced hitters — not to mention postseason hitters — on the Dodgers.

He's gone back to basics in spring training, setting up in front of a pitching machine for three different rounds in which he had to call out balls and strikes himself.

We all hope it's going to continue to pay off. Everyone knows that Pages has a lot of thump in his bat. Even if he keeps striking out a little too much, he can make up for it by punishing pitches he likes ... and finding ways to make that success sustainable.