Los Angeles Angels prospect Juan Cespedes stole eight bases in a Dominican Summer League game, setting the highest known Minor League single-game total since at least 2005.
MLB.com reported that the 17-year-old reached the mark during the Rookie-level DSL Angels' 9-1 victory on Saturday at the Los Angeles Angels DR Complex. Cespedes had one hit and one walk across four plate appearances while playing six innings.
Cespedes Runs Past Recent Minor League Mark
The previous high watermark cited by MLB.com was seven stolen bases by Johan De Los Santos for DSL Pirates Black on Aug. 12, 2025. Cespedes moved past it by turning nearly every time on base into a sprint drill with consequences.
He opened the game with a walk and stole second, third and home to manufacture the Angels' first run. In the next inning, he reached on a throwing error and stole second before being stranded.
The pattern continued in the fourth, when Cespedes reached on a fielder's choice and stole second and third. Two innings later, he singled to left, stole second and third again, then scored on an RBI single.
Early Pro Speed Has Become The Story
MLB.com listed Cespedes as a 5-foot-10, 170-pound infield/outfield prospect and described him as a 70-grade runner. Through his first 56 professional plate appearances, he had reached base 30 times and stolen 25 bases in 27 attempts.
The report also noted that Cespedes signed with the Angels for a $300,000 bonus in the 2025-26 international class and was not ranked among MLB's Top 50 International prospects. That background makes the record more useful than a novelty: it puts a lower-profile international signing into the Angels' player-development conversation.
For historical scale, MLB.com pointed out that the Major League record remains seven steals in one game, set by Sliding Billy Hamilton for the Philadelphia Phillies on Aug. 31, 1894. Cespedes' feat came in a different league and context, but the number still jumps off the page.
The verified core is simple: one Angels teenager, eight steals, a DSL win and a Minor League single-game stolen-base mark that had not been reached in MLB's available data window.