Dodgers history & records

Dodgers of the Decade: Center Field

The captain of the outfield, will it be Bellinger, Kemp, Pederson or Ethier

By Craig Minami Dec 12, 2019, 6:00am PST

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Today we have our second article this week as we now move to center field.

Our poll closed last night for the Dodger of Decade Left Fielder and the winner was Matt Kemp with 57% of the vote.

Unlike left field, there will be at least two players who played a lot of games at center field for the Dodgers in the last ten years.

As you may know, the qualifications to make this ballot is a minimum 100 games played at center field and there is a poll at the bottom of the article where True Blue LA readers will get to vote for their choice.

There were six players appeared in at least 100 games from 2010-2019 at center field and here they are in order of games played there:

Matt Kemp played 533 games in center field and won a Gold Glove and finished second in the MVP voting playing center field in 2011. Kemp was also an All-Star during two of his center field seasons in 2011 and 2012.
Joc Pederson started his Dodger career in 2014 playing center field. He played 412 games there until moving to both left and right in recent seasons.
Kiké Hernández has played 158 games in center field during his career with the Dodgers
Andre Ethier played the corner outfield positions for the majority of his career with his only major league team. He did play a total of 144 games in center field from 2012 - 2015.
Chris Taylor makes his first of two appearances in the outfield ballots, he has played 128 games in left field. Taylor also has played 119 games in center field.
Cody Bellinger closed 2019 in center field and he has played a total of 107 games in center field in his first three seasons in the majors.

Four other Dodgers played at least 62 games in center field in the 2010s. Alex Verdugo played 61 games in center field in 2019 and a total of 75 games in center field in his first three seasons. Yasiel Puig played 67 games in center field, most of that was in 2014. Tony Gwynn, Jr. roamed center field for 65 games from 2011 through 2012. And A.J. Pollock put in 62 games in center field in his first season with the Dodgers.

The statistics that are in the table below are their totals for the Dodgers from 2010-2019. and contain games where they played other positions.