Dodgers' push for first-round bye, favorable playoff schedule means more for Miguel Rojas

The Los Angeles Dodgers have already punched their ticket to the postseason and rule the NL West once again, but there's a final frontier that eluded them in 2025. They're cusp on clinching a first-round bye in the National League over the Atlanta Braves; a win for the Dodgers or a loss for the Braves on Thursday would lock it up for LA.

The Dodgers would surely love a few days off between the end of the regular season and the start of the NLDS, given how banged up the roster is right now. Shohei Ohtani, Dalton Rushing, and Blake Snell are just a few of their recently injured players who could use a little more time to prepare.

Miguel Rojas would also love to not have to work on October 1, but not because of an injury. According to Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register, Rojas is scheduled to take his US citizenship test on the same day as a potential Game 3 of the Wild Card series. Rojas is looking to follow in the footsteps of Cincinnati Reds slugger — and fellow Venezuela native — Eugenio Suárez, who passed his citizenship test this season, who passed earlier this month.

The Dodgers would love to have Miguel Rojas for every game of the playoffs

Even if the Dodgers were to fall into the Wild Card, they would host all three of those games at Dodger Stadium, but that could still complicate Rojas' participation in that series. LA could always leave him off the Wild Card roster and bring him back for the NLDS, but he's been on almost every Dodgers postseason roster since he returned to the team in 2023. The only exception was the NLDS in 2024, when he sat with injury.

Rojas has been working in the United States since 2010, when the Reds signed him as an international free agent, but his family still lives in his home country. Earlier this season, he declined a move to the bereavement list after his father passed away in Venezuela, and his wife and children were in Caracas during the devastating earthquakes the country suffered in June.

He's set to retire at the end of the season but has major league coaching and managerial aspirations, so staying in the United States after his playing career makes sense.

Barring disaster, the Dodgers' schedule should be clear to let Rojas take the next step toward US citizenship. Dodgers fans are surely wishing Miggy the best of luck.

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