If you’ve been checking out any of Jason’s weekly minor league reports, you’ll know that he has been mentioning infielder Gavin Lux quite a bit recently. Selected by the Dodgers in the first round of the 2016 draft, many folks believed that he got off to a relatively slow start in the organization; however, his 2018 campaign has proven his tremendously high value.
Immediately after the draft, Lux was jettisoned to the Arizona League Dodgers to get his feet wet in the professional ranks as an 18-year-old. Despite a sluggish start with the bat, he ended up hitting .