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- Updated: December 26, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The Major League debuts of 21-year-old Corey Seager in 2015 and 19-year-old Julio Urias last season signal to Dodgers prospects that fast-track paths exist, if they’re good enough.
Earlier this month, the Dodgers brought in 10 of their best prospects for informal workouts, and to help teach youth clinics. The group didn’t include Cody Bellinger, 21, the organization’s top-ranked prospect by MLBPipeline.com, but it did include Alex Verdugo, who is ranked No. 3 after spending his age-20 season as one of the youngest players in the Double-A Texas League.
“I got drafted out of high school and — I didn’t know anything — I’m telling people, ‘I want to be in the big leagues in two or three years,'” Verdugo said. “And they’re telling me, ‘That’s not how it works, man. In a lot of organizations, guys spend a season at each level and it can be four, five, six years.’ I’m like, ‘That’s awful.’
“So what the Dodgers are doing, as players, we love it. We know if we’re doing everything …
