{"id":529004,"date":"2026-01-20T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529004\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:34:54","slug":"heres-what-gavin-lux-did-the-night-of-the-reds-rays-angels-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529004\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s what Gavin Lux did the night of the Reds-Rays-Angels trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

About one year after the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> traded minor-leaguer Mike Sirota and a draft pick to the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> for Gavin Lux, the Reds sent Lux to the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> in a three-team deal.<\/p>\n

Lux, who batted .269 with five home runs and 53 RBIs in his only season with the Reds<\/a>, spent the evening of Jan. 15 at the P&G MLB Cincinnati Reds Youth Academy, joining outfielder Rece Hinds in throwing batting practice and signing autographs for young Cincinnati-area players.<\/p>\n

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Moments later, Lux found out he was headed to the American League for the first time in his MLB career.<\/p>\n

Tampabay.com’s Marc Topkin wrote that the Rays<\/a> “believe Lux will benefit from knowing he was acquired to play second base.”<\/p>\n

The Reds received left-handed pitcher Brock Burke in the Lux trade.<\/p>\n

The Angels received outfielder Josh Lowe, selected by the Rays seven picks before the Dodgers took Lux in the first round of the 2016 MLB draft, in the deal.<\/p>\n

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Gavin Lux spent the 2025 season with the Reds.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Gavin Lux works at Reds Youth Academy, learns he’s traded to Rays<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About one year after the Cincinnati Reds traded minor-leaguer Mike Sirota and a draft pick to the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,3765,535,50,4259,730,1397,57,10841,4,5849,536,68,973],"class_list":["post-529004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-brock-burke","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-gavin-lux","tag-josh-lowe","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mike-sirota","tag-mlb","tag-rece-hinds","tag-reds","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-the-reds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115927458316970024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}