Tag Archives: Gavin Lux

Cool prospect links and notes

DJ Peters on being the home town kid. Alex Verdugo and his parents. “He would be so mad if he knew I told you this, but every night in the month when he shuts down right after the season, all I see in his bed are Reese’s peanut butter cups and hot Cheetos. I mean, …

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Midseason Prospect Rankings coming in

David Hood was the first with an update prospect list, and he published it this morning. MLB did their update last year around July 20th and that is when we will be looking for it this year. I was pleased to see that David was aggressive on Keibert Ruiz and Dennis Santana the two prospects …

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2017 LAD Minor League All-Stars

Pacific Coast League – AAA – no announcements yet for the July 12th game in Tacoma. The voting is still going on. I voted for Wilmer Font to start the game, no one deserves it more. Bellinger, Calhoun, Verdugo also got my votes. And Oaks. July 12th – Update – Wilmer Font made the team and started …

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Clobbering Calhoun wins FFA for week ending 6/11/17

Willie Calhoun needs to hit since that is his only tool and the hit tool was carving up the PCL last week. Calhoun went 11 for 34 with eleven RBI and three home runs to win the weekly Farm Factory Award for June 11th. The three home runs came in back to back to back …

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Dodger Farm System Positional update June 2nd, 2017

With two months in the books, how has the farm system been doing? My quick top ten: Keibert Ruiz – I might be crazy, but he’s my favorite positional prospect Alex Verdugo – possible trade bait Willie Calhoun – trade bait Brendon Davis Gavin Lux Edwin Rios – trade bait Will Smith Oneil Cruz Carlos Rincon …

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Just who is the Dodgers best SS prospect?

Based on early season prospect rankings the answer would be the 2016 number one pick Gavin Lux, but is it? From what I can tell, the Dodgers have three shortstops on their Great Lakes roster or at least two. The contenders: Gavin Lux – the 2016 number one pick didn’t play his first game this …

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May 22nd – Font Farm Factory Award winner

There were a lot of great performances by LAD prospects in the past week but the award has to belong to Wilmer Font. He’s not even really a prospect but when you put up a game like he put up on Monday he has to be on someone’s radar. I don’t care what kind of …

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Struggling Loons

Just about one year ago the Dodgers drafted Gavin Lux with their first pick, and twentieth pick overall.  He was considered the best SS in the draft not named Delvin Perez who was picked by the Cardinals with the twenty-third pick.  Perez has yet to play in 2017 and Lux so far in 2017 has …

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AJ Alexy turns 19 in style

When it comes to Dodger pitching prospects AJ Alexy doesn’t get the attention that the higher ranked pitching prospects get but if he keeps pitching like this, he might start drawing some attention to himself. Alexy turned nineteen today and celebrated by pitching three scoreless innings and threw in an extra out as icing on …

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Extended spring training is loaded

William Boor of MLB.com puts out the whereabouts of the LAD Top 30 prospects. That extended spring training team is loaded 2. Yadier Alvarez — Extended spring training 7. Gavin Lux — Extended spring training 13. Starling Heredia — Extended spring training 16. Imani Abdullah — Extended spring training 17. Josh Sborz — Extended spring …

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