I like him too. He's a phenomenal athlete. Considering his quickness & range, his athletic ability and a pretty decent albeit unorthodox arm, I believe he will become at least an above average shortstop and maybe a really good one. He's been a good hitter for average on his way up so the possibility exists that he will rise to that level in the bigs. With his speed one would think that he just has to make contact and spray that ball around a little. Throw in a steady ration of bunts and push bunts to keep the defense in tight and his OBP should be pretty fair. And that's when his real job starts - to score runs.
I was at the game at Petco when the kid 3 stolen bases. I was sitting right at first base. When Gordon stole 2B in the first inning, Lopes strolled over to the first base umpire and showed him his stopwatch while shaking his head. Like this kid has speed like maybe we haven't seen before in a Dodger uniform.
He appears to have some mental fortitude and being the son of a big leaguer tends often seems to eliminate some of the intimidation that the Bigs pose to most young players. I think he is a hard working, heady young athlete who will learn how to adjust and succeed.
Because he appears ready to take on the adversities inherent to playing MLB, he probably doesn't have as much to gain as he does playing under the tutelage of Coach Lopes or to a lesser extent but probably still impactful from Maury Wills. He also has Ellis hitting second and what a fine 2-spot hitter Ellis is. He knows his primary job is to facilitate Gordon getting to 3rd in his at bat for Kemp et al to knock in. It's a good system and I think young Dee will fluorish.
I'm not smart enough to know if he can stay healthy or whether MLB pitchers or managers will figure out how to pitch him and/or align the defense to keep him off the bases. But if they don't and he can stay on the field, he could become a run scoring machine. And that's half the battle.