In a trade that partly addressed their need to add offense, the Reds acquired second baseman/outfielder Gavin Lux from the Dodgers on Monday.
Cincinnati is sending Los Angeles its Competitive Balance Round A pick (No. 37 overall) and outfield prospect Mike Sirota (No. 14 on Reds’ Top 30).
TRADE DETAILS
Reds get: 2B/OF Gavin Lux
Dodgers get: Competitive Balance Round A pick and outfield prospect Mike Sirota
The 27-year-old Lux, who is under club control for two more seasons, batted .251/.320/.383 with 2.1 WAR, 10 home runs and 50 RBIs over 139 games for Los Angeles last season. A left-handed hitter who throws right-handed, he primarily played second base in 2024 but has also logged time at shortstop, left field and center field since debuting in 2019.
“He’s a guy with really good upside,” Reds president of baseball operations Nick Krall said. “Even with where he is now, he still has some room to run to get better.”
An ACL tear in his right knee cost Lux the entire 2023 season and could have contributed to his slow start in ’24. His second-half performance was much improved as he batted .304 with an .899 OPS and seven homers over his final 61 games.
Lux brings postseason experience with 71 playoff at-bats in his time with Los Angeles. During the Dodgers’ run to a 2024 World Series championship he batted .177 (6-for-34) with one homer, but his eighth-inning sacrifice fly in Game 5 of the World Series tied the game before Mookie Betts drove in the winning run.
With Betts expected to move back to the infield next season, Tommy Edman signing an extension and the addition of Hyeseong Kim last week, the Dodgers had an excess of infielders.
“We talked about it a couple of weeks ago. We knew he was available,” Krall said. “We knew they were trying to get somebody else. We talked about it internally. We kept tabs with them. It came about [in] the last probably handful of days, mostly since they signed [Kim].”
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