Kody Hoese

Kody Hoese is an American former professional baseball third baseman, born on July 13, 1997. He attended Griffith High School in Griffith, Indiana, before enrolling at Tulane University, where he played for the Green Wave. In his junior season of 2019 he hit .391 with 23 home runs and sixty runs batted in over 56 games and was named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year. The Los Angeles Dodgers chose him in the first round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft, 25th overall, and he signed for 2.74 million dollars. He then worked up through the minor leagues, from the Arizona League and the Great Lakes Loons to Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma City, where he hit .287 with 17 home runs in 2024. He elected free agency in November 2025 and afterward became assistant athletic director at his former high school.