Baseball America recently named 21-year old Gavin Lux as its 2019 Minor League Player of the Year. He is in good company with the last three award recipients: Chicago White Sox Yoan Moncada (2016); the Atlanta Braves Ronald Acuna Jr. (2017), and Toronto Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (2018). A terrific honor for Lux, and the Dodgers player development organization, but not really a surprise to those Dodgers fans who closely follow the team’s prospects.

In announcing its selection of Lux, Baseball America wrote: “The Dodgers’ 21-year-old shortstop prospect thrived (at) the two highest levels of the minors on his way to his first major league call-up in September. In 113 games at Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma City, Lux hit .347 to rank fourth in the minors, while his .421 on-base percentage ranked 10th and his .607 slugging percentage placed sixth. In terms of OPS, he ranked fourth (1.028) overall, behind only Kevin Cron, Jared Walsh and Mark Payton, a trio of older, bat-first players at Triple-A. Lux pieced together a 50-game on-base streak that stretched from early June to mid-August and slashed his errors from 27 last year to 13 this season.”

On September 19, 2018, That same Baseball America ranked Lux as the 79th top prospect in Major League Baseball; just 12-months later he has risen to number six – and climbing – with this assessment: “Lux continues to get stronger and make all the right adjustments at the plate. He tore through the Double-A Texas League to earn a berth in the Futures Game and then a promotion to Triple-A Oklahoma City. He spread a 50-game on-base streak across Double-A and Triple-A and hasn’t gone hitless in back-to-back games since June 7 and 8 when he was still in the Texas League. Lux made his big league debut on September 2, and with a covey of young stars already in the big leagues, he looks like the next addition to the Dodgers’ young, talented juggernaut.”

Congrats Gavin!

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