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Below is a partial list of Minor League Baseball players in the Los Angeles Dodgers system.

Drew Avans (born June 13, 1996) is an American professional baseball Outfielder in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.

Hyun-il Choi (born May 27, 2000) is a Korean professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.

Diego Armando Cartaya (born September 7, 2001) is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.

Maddux John Bruns (born June 20, 2002) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.

Bruns grew up in Saraland, Alabama, and attended UMS-Wright Preparatory School.

He was named Alabama's Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year and Mr. Baseball as a senior after going 7–0 with a 0.86 ERA and 102 strikeouts and just 13 hits and six earned runs allowed in 49 innings pitched.

He committed to play college baseball at Mississippi State.

Bruns was selected 29th overall in the 2021 Major League Baseball draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

He signed with the Dodgers for a $2.2 million signing bonus.

In his first professional season, he started four games for the Arizona Complex League Dodgers, allowing nine runs on eight hits and seven walks while striking out five in five innings of work.

He made 21 starts for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the Class-A California League in 2022, with an 0–2 record and 5.68 ERA.

After starting 2023 with Rancho Cucamonga, Bruns was promoted to the Great Lakes Loons of the High–A Midwest League on May 11.

Between the two levels, he made 26 starts, with a 0–7 record, a 3.99 ERA and 126 strikeouts in 97 innings.

Avans was drafted by the Dodgers in the 33rd round of the 2018 MLB Draft out of Southeastern Louisiana University.

He began his career with the Arizona League Dodgers before promotions to the Ogden Raptors and Great Lakes Loons, hitting .284 in a combined 60 games.

Cartaya was rated as MLB Pipeline's top international prospect when he signed with the Dodgers on July 2, 2018.

Choi was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2018 for a $300,000 signing bonus as a 17-year old High School pitcher from Korea.

In 2019, he played with Great Lakes, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and Tulsa Drillers, hitting .280 in 112 games.

He made his professional debut in 2019 with the Dodgers Arizona League affiliates, hitting .281 in 41 games.

He made his professional debut in 2019 with in the Arizona League, where he was 5–1 with a 2.63 ERA in 14 games (11 starts).

He struck out 71 in 65 innings.

After the 2020 minor league season was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was promoted to the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers for 2021.

He hit .275 in 90 games in 2021, .282 in 119 games in 2022 and .254 in 129 games with 11 homers and 58 RBI in 2023 for Oklahoma City.

He was rated as the Dodgers ninth best prospect going into the 2020 season.

and was added to the Dodgers 60-man player pool for the pandemic affected season.

In 2021, with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes he appeared in 31 games and hit .298 with 10 homers and 31 RBI.

However, he was placed on the injured list on August 1 with a strained hamstring and missed the rest of the season.

He was selected to represent the Dodgers at the 2022 All-Star Futures Game.

Cartaya was selected by the Dodgers as their 2022 Branch Rickey Minor League Player of the Year.

He appeared in 33 games for the Quakes and 62 games for the Great Lakes Loons, hitting a combined .254 with 22 home runs and 72 RBI.

After the season, the Dodgers added Cartaya to the 40-man roster and assigned him to the Double-A Tulsa Drillers to begin the 2023 season.

With Tulsa, he played in 93 games, hitting .189 with 19 homers and 57 RBI.

Choi missed the 2020 season as a result of the cancellation of the minor league season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was assigned to the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes to start the 2021 season before being promoted to High-A Great Lakes Loons at mid-season.

Across the two levels, he was 8–6 with a 3.72 ERA in 24 games (11 starts) and struck out 106 batters in innings while only walking 18.

The Dodgers recognized him by awarding him the organizations Branch Rickey Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award.

Choi only pitched in one game for Great Lakes in 2022 before being shut down with forearm inflammation.

He returned to Great Lakes in 2023, pitching in 16 games (13 starts) with a 4–5 record and 3.75 ERA.

Josue De Paula is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.

A cousin to NBA players Stephon Marbury and Sebastian Telfair, De Paula was signed by the Dodgers out of El Niche Academy in the Dominican Republic on January 15, 2022.