Davalan is slashing .276/.400/.586 with two home runs, one steal, an 11.4 percent walk rate and an 8.6 percent strikeout rate in eight games for High-A Great Lakes.
Davalan was given as aggressive an assignment as any college hitter from last year's draft, and he's handled it with ease thus far. His batted-ball profile is exquisite, as he has a 26.9 percent groundball rate while using the whole field (34.6 Pull%, 30.8 Oppo%), and he is making contact at a 94.2 percent clip. The Dodgers have an outfield logjam in the minors, and while Davalan has past experience at second base, the team is committed to developing him as an outfielder, so his ascent through the minors may be slower than his development warrants.
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Dodgers' Charles Davalan: Rakes for Quakes before injury
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Davalan hit .500 with one home run, three steals and a 5:3 K:BB in eight games for Single-A Rancho Cucamonga before being placed on the 7-day injured list after suffering a leg injury Aug. 30.
He was pulled from the Aug. 30 game against Lake Elsinore after his first at-bat. The Quakes' season was wrapping up anyway, so it's unclear how serious the injury is. The expectation coming into the 2025 First-Year Player Draft was that Davalan was a bat-first player who may be limited to left field and second base defensively, although the Dodgers deployed him only in center field after he signed for a hair under $2 million. A lefty hitter who transformed his approach in his lone year with Arkansas, Davalan has a chance to lead off some day while using his speed to steal 20-plus bases. He'll likely spend the bulk of 2026 at High-A and Double-A.
