Leodalis De Vries…Played hoops as a youngster and his father played basketball for the Dominican National Team…Signed with the Padres at 17 years old out of Azua, Dominican Republic with a $4.2 million signing bonus on Dec. 15, 2024…Nicknamed El Mutante, which translates to “The Mutant."
2025
Played for three different teams in two organizations in his second professional season at the age of 18…Batted a combined .255 with 28 doubles, eight triples, 15 home runs, 74 RBI, 11 stolen bases and an .806 OPS in 118 games with Single-A Fort Wayne and Lansing, and Double-A Midland...Added 66 walks and was hit by a pitch eight times for a .355 on-base percentage...His eight triples tied for 13th in Minor League Baseball...Tied for third in the Midwest League in triples (seven), ranked 10th in slugging (.426) and tied for 10th in extra-base hits (38)...Batted .306 with 12 extra-base hits (five doubles, three triples, four home runs) and a 1.003 OPS in 19 games in April, .226 with 28 extra-base hits (18 doubles, four triples, six home runs) and a .700 OPS in 89 games from May through August, and .383 with 11 extra-base hits (five doubles, one triple, five home runs) and a 1.271 OPS in 10 games in September...Hit .271 (89-for-329) with an .862 OPS and 12 of his 15 home runs against right-handed pitchers compared to .214 (27-for-126) with a .659 OPS against left-handers...Connected for nine of his 15 home runs with runners on base…Seven of his home runs put his team ahead...Combined for a .312 batting average in his home ballparks…Hit .204 on the road...Batted .285 over innings one through six and .178 from the seventh inning on...Appeared exclusively at shortstop on defense, where he made 104 starts…Committed 21 errors for a .944 fielding percentage...Also made 11 starts at designated hitter and hit .182 in 14 games overall at DH compared to .265 as a shortstop...Batted .263 in 106 starts hitting second in the order and .188 in 12 starts in the leadoff spot...Started the season at Single-A Fort Wayne and hit .186 over his first 11 games…Then had a career-high 14-game reaching base streak from April 20 to May 8 and batted .404 with a .500 on-base percentage during the streak…Earned Midwest League Player of the Week honors in back-to-back weeks for the weeks ending April 27 and May 4…Went 7-for-20 (.350) with two home runs and eight RBI in five games at Lansing from April 22-27 and 8-for-16 (.500) with six runs, six walks, a home run and six RBI in five games against Dayton from April 29 to May 4…Hit for the cycle on April 22 at Lansing when he went 5-for-5 with a double, triple, two home runs and eight RBI…Had career highs in hits, RBI and extra-base hits (four), and matched his best in home runs and times on base (five)…Had a solo home run, a two-run homer, a two-run single, a sacrifice fly and a two-run triple…Earned Midwest League Player of the Month honors for April after hitting .306 with 14 runs, four home runs, 19 RBI and a 1.003 OPS in 19 games…Hit safely in a season-high eight consecutive games from April 29 to May 8 (12-for-29, .414)…That lifted his overall average to .305…Went 0-for-4 on May 10 at South Bend to fall to .293 and remained under .300 for the rest of the season…Went 1-for-27 over an eight-game stretch from June 11-20…Drew a career-high four walks and had the first two-steal game of his career on June 7 at Beloit…Had another four-walk game on June 24 against Great Lakes…Hit safely in six of 10 games from June 21 to July 2 and had six multiple hit games while batting .351…Finished June with a .198 batting average in 23 games…Played for the National League in the All-Star Futures game on July 12 at Atlanta and went 0-for-1 with a strikeout as a replacement at shortstop…Was hitting .245 with eight home runs and 46 RBI in 82 games with Fort Wayne when he was traded to the A's on July 31 with Henry Baez, Braden Nett and Eduarniel Nuñez for Mason Miller and JP Sears…Made the two-hour trip from Fort Wayne to Lansing and made his Lugnuts debut that night against Cedar Rapids..Hit safely in each of his first four games in the A's organization (5-for-15, .333) but then went 3-for-29 (.103) over his next eight contests…Was 0-for-5 with a career-high four strikeouts on Aug. 5 at Great Lakes…Had his third career two-homer game on Aug. 15 against Dayton and drove in five runs…had three straight multiple-hit games from Aug. 15 to 17 (7- for-12, .583) and was batting .268 with two home runs and 12 RBI in 15 games with Lansing when he was promoted to Midland on Aug. 18…Went 7-for-42 (.167) with no home runs, three RBI and a .516 OPS over his first 11 Double-A games through Aug. 30…Then hit .383 with five home runs, 13 RBI and a 1.271 OPS in 10 regular season games in September…Went 4-for-5 on Sept. 6 against Frisco…Had his third two-homer game of the season and the fourth of his career on Sept. 12 at Amarillo…Hit .421 (8-for-19) with five runs, three home runs, six RBI, three walks and a 1.395 OPS in five postseason games for the RockHounds…Went 3-for-4 on Sept. 18 against Amarillo and homered twice on Sept. 21 at Springfield.
2024
Debuted in mid-April at Single-A Lake Elsinore, where the switch-hitter slashed .237/.361/.441 with 11 homers, 38 RBI and 13 steals across 75 games played...Assigned to LE on April 22 and made his professional debut the next day on April 23…went 0-for-4 in his debut at Rancho Cucamonga before posting multi-hit efforts in his second and third games on April 24 and 25, including his first career triple and a career-high four RBI on April 25...Did not homer until his 36th game on June 25, but had 14 XBH (13 2B, 1 3B) prior to homering...While dealing with a left shoulder injury, he had just the 1 homer and a .196/.319/.310 slash line in his first 40 games through June 30 before earning California League Player of the Month honors for July (.318/.442/.694)...In the award-winning month, he led the Cal League in runs scored (26), home runs (8) and total bases (59) and was 2nd in SLG (.694) and OPS (1.136)…he was sixth in RBI (18) and walked as many times (18) as he struck out (18)…he recorded eight multi-hit games and had separate hitting streaks of nine and seven games...Homered from both sides of the plate for his first-career multi-homer game July 5 at Inland Empire…the two long balls were the first of four homers in a three-game stretch, homering in three straight contests from July 5-9…following the multi-homer game, Storm Manager Lukas Ray said: "You could look at the stat line and get lost in the stat line, but if you come to the games and you watch him in person, you know he's the best player on the field every night. And if you come to our pregame, you know how hard he works, how much he’s getting better”...Hit safely in nine of his 14 games in August, including homering in back-to-back contests in Aug. 7-8 at Stockton...On Aug.18, he suffered a right shoulder strain while diving for a ball, sidelining him for the rest of the season...In his 35 games played over the summer in July/August prior to the injury, he posted a .284/.407/.589 slash line with 21 XBH (9 2B, 1 3B, 10 HR) with 23 RBI and 39 runs scored...In more than twice as many at-bats vs. right-handed pitching (212) than left-handers (87), the switch hitter had a higher AVG vs. righties (.241) than lefties (.230)…but seven of his 11 HR came vs. southpaws...All 11 of his HR came when batting first in the Storm lineup, where he had 210 at-bats…hit .271 in 210 at-bats when hitting leadoff, .137 in 73 at-bats hitting second, and .250 in 16 at-bats hitting third...On first pitches of an at-bat that got put in play, he hit .308 with eight XBH (4 2B, 1 3B, 3 HR)...Hit .248 (56-for-226) as a shortstop and .205 (15-73) as the designated hitter...On the season, he made 58 starts at shortstop and 17 as the designated hitter…at SS, he posted a .962 fielding percentage (8 errors, 208 total chances), compiling 133 assists and helping turn 26 double plays...Converted 13 of his 15 stolen base attempts...Following the season, he was drafted second overall in the 2024 Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) Rookie Draft by the Águilas Cibaeñas, but chose to play in the Arizona Fall League instead...De Vries (67 at-bats) joined fellow top Padres’ prospect Ethan Salas (92 at-bats) as the first players at age 18 to get consistent run in the Arizona Fall League since the Mariners’ Julio Rodríguez in 2019…prior to De Vries and Salas in 2024, there were five other players since 2005 to get at least 25 at-bats at the same age, including Bryce Harper, who did so twice (2010-11)...De Vries also became the youngest player to hit a home run in the AFL since Bryce Harper in 2010 (Scottsdale Scorpions)...He was one of three finalists for the final National League spot in the Fall Star’s Game, ultimately winning the NL’s fan vote… entered the game as a replacement for the designated hitter and went 0-for-3 with two SO...Ended 2024 rated as the Padres No. 2 prospect by MLB Pipeline, behind only Salas…Salas and De Vries ranked No. 19 and No. 28, respectively, on MLB Pipeline’s top 100 list.
