Jaron Elkins walked onto the field at Dodger Stadium for the first time on Wednesday afternoon hours after getting off a plane.
The 19-year-old prospect was in the middle of his first full season in the Arizona Complex League when he got a phone call on Tuesday night, leading to an experience he will never forget.
“I got a phone call last night around 9 p.m. from one of our front office guys,” Elkins wrote in a text message to Dodgers Nation on Wednesday night. “He asked me if I wanted to get out of Arizona and hit off (Yoshinobu) Yamamoto.