{"id":677951,"date":"2026-04-17T22:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677951\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:48:42","slug":"reds-3-team-gavin-lux-trade-already-looks-like-major-win-for-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677951\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds&#8217; 3-Team Gavin Lux Trade Already Looks Like Major Win for Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds are off to a good start this year, though their runs scored and run differential might not tell the same story. The Reds have been able to stay competitive in the close games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/reds\/onsi\/reds-bullpen-quietly-emerging-as-top-unit-in-national-league-01kp8sp6b3br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">because of their stout bullpen.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But this stout bullpen didn&#8217;t happen by accident. The Reds had a few building blocks in their bullpen last season, but they worked hard over the offseason to build it up. They added players like Pierce Johnson, Brock Burke, Caleb Ferguson, and Kyle Nicolas during the offseason. <\/p>\n<p>Of the four, Burke has been the biggest surprise. The Reds acquired Burke in a trade that cost them Gavin Lux over the offseason. Let&#8217;s revisit that deal after the first few weeks of the season. <\/p>\n<p>Revisting Reds Offseason Gavin Lux Trade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Reds are off to a good start this year, though their runs scored and run differential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,4,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-677951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-cincinnatireds","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-reds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116422494908961002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677951","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=677951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}