Next stop on Leodalis De Vries’ fast track: Big-league spring training. The 18-year-old shortstop highlights the Padres’ 28 non-roster invitees to big league camp. Other noteworthy players ...

Headlined by a pair of teenagers working their way through the minor league ranks rather quickly, the Padres have reloaded ...

Leodalis De Vries is beginning to check off a number of firsts. A day after making his professional debut with low Single-A Lake Elsinore, the 17-year-old shortstop collected his first single ...

A little more than 48 hours after Leodalis De Vries officially signed with the Padres, he’s now also officially a Top 100 prospect. It’s a high ranking for 17-year-old shortstop who has yet to ...

And in 2024, it was no different. The Padres signed 17-year-old Dominican Republic shortstop Leodalis De Vries. De Vries is already considered a top-100 prospect, according to Baseball America.

MLB released the updated MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects rankings for 2025, with San Diego Padres prospect Leodalis De Vries making the biggest jump. The Padres prospect entered the top 5 list at ...

A right shoulder strain ended Leodalis De Vries’ first professional season in mid August. A left shoulder injury slowed his onboarding at Low-A Lake Elsinore in May. What occurred in between ...

The Padres have extended De Vries an invitation to major-league camp during spring training. De Vries is only 18 and spent the entirety of the 2024 season at Single-A Lake Elsinore, so he is not ...

So consider Leodalis De Vries’ venture into his first big-league camp a staging area of sorts. “We’re still in the evaluation process,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “First big-league ...

De Vries is slashing .266/.389/.506 with five home runs, five steals and a 23.2 percent strikeout rate in his last 20 games for Single-A Lake Elsinore. The consensus top prospect in this year's ...

On the field, Leodalis De Vries quickly impressed Bogaerts. Off it, the 17-year-old told the major-league veteran he was trying to secure travel visas for his family in the Dominican Republic.