Hot Week & The Top 100: Dodgers Prospects Have A Great Week (Ugh, We Know)

After three consecutive weeks of MLB top prospects being left out of the Top-five hitters of the week, two top-100 players represented MLB’s Top-100, making their way back into the top-five of hitters for the week of May 26th through May 31st. 

MLB Pipeline’s No. 9 prospect in all of baseball, outfielder Josue DePaula of the Tulsa Drillers (Double-A, Los Angeles Dodgers); No. 75 prospect, first baseman/ outfielder, Charlie Condon of the  Albuquerque Isotopes (Triple-A, Colorado Rockies); left fielder, Brian Sanchez of the Greensboro Grasshoppers (High-A, Pittsburgh Pirates); outfielder Jaron Elkins of the Ontario Tower Buzzers (Single-A, Los Angeles Dodgers); and right fielder, James Tibbs III of the Oklahoma City Comets (Triple-A, Los Angeles Dodgers) represent this week’s top five offensive performers among all of MiLB position players for the latest week of games. 

As highlighted above, it was a big week for prospects in the Dodgers’ farm system as three of the top five hitters this week represented teams from throughout the Dodgers’ minor league affiliates, showing the depth of their farm system and the players they have coming up, as De Paula, Elkins, and Tibbs all represented Los Angeles. So we first take a look at the week they had.

Josue DePaula (MLB No. 9 prospect), OF – Tulsa Drillers (Double-A, Los Angeles Dodgers)

DePaula, the Dodgers’ top outfield prospect, had a strong week during the Drillers’ series against the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (Kansas City Royals). He was 10-for-20, hitting .500/.524/1.050, with a massive 1.574 OPS through six games played this week. He hit six doubles and two home runs, driving in six RBIs, 11 runs scored, and stole two bases this week.

He now has a nine-game hit streak, connecting for at least one or more hits in 16 of his last 20 games.

After spending the majority of the 2025 season in High-A and playing in just four games in Double-A last year, this season is his first full season in Double-A, and he’s making a case for a quick transition to Triple-A with the numbers he’s putting up.

So far this season, he’s hitting a very impressive .323/.424/.545, with a .969 OPS. He has a total of 18 doubles, eight home runs, has walked 33 times, and driven in 45 RBIs and 44 runs scored. A threat on the base pads as well, he has 16 stolen bases and has been caught stealing just three times so far this year. He also has a .349 BABIP and a total of 26 extra-base hits.

If DePaula can continue to put up the numbers he is, the Dodgers' top outfield prospect could either find himself getting called up soon or, because of the Dodgers’ depth at that position, could find himself a candidate to be traded to a team in need of outfield talent.

Jaron Elkins, OF – Ontario Tower Buzzers (Single-A, Los Angeles Dodgers)

Elkins is another talented outfielder that the Dodgers have coming up in the farm system. The 21-year-old was drafted by Los Angeles in the eighth round (Pick No. 250 overall) in the 2023 MLB draft out of Goodpasture Christian in Madison, TN. After playing the 2025 season with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakers and is in his second season at Single-A, but first with the Tower Buzzers.

This week, the Tower Buzzers were taking on the Visalia Rawhide (Arizona Diamondbacks).  Elkins missed the first two games of the six-game series as he was activated from the injured list on May 27 in time for game four against the Rawhide. Elkins was 8-for-19, hitting .421/.476/1.105, with a 1.571 OPS, the third-highest OPS among hitters in the MiLB this week, even with playing in just four games. He accumulated two doubles, one triple, and three home runs, driving in eight RBIs and seven runs scored throughout the series.

Over the course of the 2026 season, Elkins is hitting .296/.399/.563, with a .962 OPS. As mentioned, he has missed time with injury, but through 35 games, he has eight doubles, three triples, and home runs, with 31 RBIs, 35 runs scored, and 18 stolen bases. He also has a .386 BABIP with eight extra-base hits. Similar to DePaula, the Dodgers are stacking up speed down on the farm.

James Tibbs III, RF (Triple-A, Los Angeles Dodgers)

The Dodgers’ outfielders had a week this week as the third prospect that put on a show was yet another outfielder from the Dodgers’ organization in Tibbs III. The right fielder is in his first season in Triple-A, and similar to De Paula, if he can keep putting up the caliber of numbers that he is currently, he could be on pace for a call-up before too long as well, or a trade as he runs into the same problem that De Paula is of the Dodgers having a stacked farm system with power-hitting outfielders who aren’t showing any signs of slowing down. Their lowest-averaged hitter right now is Kyle Tucker, who the Dodgers won’t be sending down to Triple-A any time soon. So where do DePaula and Tibbs fit in? That’s the current question up for grabs and to look at as the right fielder continues to cream the baseball in Triple-A.

Oklahoma was in Sugar Land, TX this week to take on the Space Cowboys (Houston Astros) affiliate. The Comets took five of six games on the road against the Space Cowboys this week, and Tibbs was 16 of the reasons that led them to those wins.
Tibbs played in all six games this week. He went 9-for-24, hitting .375/.444/ 1.125, with a  1.569 OPS. Over the course of the six-game series, he broke out for six home runs, including two on May 29. He has at least one home run in four straight games and five of his last six. He drove in a massive 18 RBIs (three on May 26, six on May 28, and four on May 30). He also scored six runs.

Over the course of the season as a whole, Tibbs is hitting .322/.426/.659, with a 1.085 OPS. He has 16 doubles, two triples, and 17 home runs. He has driven in 51 RBIs and scored 55 runs, with three stolen bases. He also has a BABIP of .316 and 35 extra-base hits.

It was a strong week for the Dodgers’ farm system, but now on to the two other prospects who had strong weeks this week, Sanchez of the Grasshoppers (Pirates) and Condon of the Isotopes (Diamondbacks)

Brian Sanchez, LF – Greensboro Grasshoppers (High-A, Pittsburgh Pirates)

Sanchez and the Grasshoppers closed out the month of May, taking five of six at home against the Hub City Spartan Burgers ( Texas Rangers). Sanchez contributed by going 8-for-18 in five games played. He hit .444/.500/1.167, with a 1.667 OPS, the highest among batters this week. He struck for four doubles and three home runs, driving in six RBIs, seven runs scored, and had one stolen base. In Game six on Sunday, he was 3-for-4 with a double, two home runs, four RBIs, and three runs scored. It was the best game of the series for him as the Grasshoppers went on to defeat the Spartan Burgers 5-1.

Over the course of his first full season in High-A, the 21-year-old from Cumanacoa, Venezuela, is hitting .233/.319/.390, with a .709 OPS and a BABIP of .323. He has a total of 14 extra-base hits this year, including nine doubles, one triple, and four home runs. He has driven in a total of 13 RBIs, walked 16 times, and has 26 runs scored and four stolen bases.

This is Sanchez’s first full year with the Pirates’ organization, as he was sent to Pittsburgh in the 2025 trade that sent right-handed pitcher David Bednar to the New York Yankees ahead of last season’s summer trade deadline.

Charlie Condon  (MLB No. 75  prospect), 1B/ OF – Albuquerque Isotopes  (Triple-A, Colorado Rockies)

Putting up numbers that place him at the top of all MiLB hitters again this week, he now has two consecutive weeks at Triple-A in which his name has been in the conversation, a breath of fresh air for MLB’s No. 75 prospect who struggled early this year.

Condon and Triple-A Albuquerque were home to end the month as they welcomed the El Paso Chihuahuas for a six-game series in which they took four of six. Condon was 7-for-17 through five games played in the six-game slate. He hit .412/.545/1.118, with a 1.663 OPS, representing the second-highest OPS among hitters this week. He struck for three doubles, three home runs, driving in six RBIs and seven runs scored, with five walks, showing his patience at the plate.

After a slow start to 2026, Condon is bouncing back and contributing in a big way. He now has at least one or more hits in 17 of his last 20 games.

Over the course of the season, Condon is hitting .262/.391/.470, with a .861 OPS. He has a .328 BABIP. Of his hits, he has 21 extra base hits, including 12 doubles, one triple, and eight home runs. He has driven in 25 RBIs and 43 runs scored, along with accumulating 34 walks and four stolen bases.

MLB Top 100 Prospects

Joining Condon in what you could call the top eight hitters of the week were also MLB top-100 prospects, Joshua Baez (No. 87), an outfielder with the Memphis Redbirds (Triple-A, Cardinals); Mike Sirota (No. 60), another outfielder in the Dodgers organization, also with Double-A Tulsa; and outfielder Braden Montgomery (No. 36) with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights of the White Sox. Baez struck for five home runs this week.

MLB’s top prospects made their way back toward the top this week, but it was the Dodgers’ organization that shone.