It’s unknown if Vargas will be with Oklahoma City as early as Tuesday night, since he was in Los Angeles for the Freeway Series earlier Monday.
319/.380/.526 with 23 home runs, 27 doubles, and led all Dodgers minor leaguers in hits (154) and runs scored (98) in 2021. Vargas split time with High-A Great Lakes, where he set a franchise-record hitting streak, and Double-A Tulsa last season, hitting a combined. At 22 years old, Vargas is the youngest player on Oklahoma City’s roster. Vargas was named on four top-100 lists ( Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America, The Athletic, and MLB Pipeline) and was the Branch Rickey Award winner in 2021 as the Dodgers minor league position player of the year. Pepiot was named on two national top-100 prospect lists ( ESPN and Baseball America), ranked second-highest among pitching prospects in the Dodgers system. Pepiot was already announced on Sunday as the opening day starter with OKC, where he finished the 2021 season over the final two months.
Top Dodgers prospects Miguel Vargas, Ryan Pepiot, and Andre Jackson will start the season in Triple-A, all included in the preliminary opening day roster for Oklahoma City, which begins play on Tuesday night against Albuquerque.
