LOS ANGELES DODGERS TOP 10 PROSPECTS
1. GAVIN LUX, SS/2B
BORN: Nov. 23, 1997. B-T: L-R. HT: 6-2. WT: 190.
DRAFTED: HS—Kenosha, Wis., 2016 (1st round).
SIGNED BY: Trey Magnuson
TRACK RECORD: Wisconsin high school players are historically one of the draft’s least successful demographics, but Lux was a unique case. His uncle Augie Schmidt won the 1982 Golden Spikes Award and later became the coach at Division III Carthage (Wis.) College, where Lux began accompanying him to practices as a 6-year-old. After blossoming physically as a high school senior, Lux became the first Wisconsin prep drafted in the first round in 37 years when the Dodgers drafted him 20th overall in 2016. Lux struggled his first full season, but after adding 20 pounds to his skinny frame and adjusting his bat path, he took off. He raised his batting average 80 points and his slugging percentage 152 points from 2017 to 2018, and in 2019 he upped his game again. Lux hit .347 with a 1.028 OPS, both fourth in the minors, between Double-A Tulsa and Triple-Oklahoma City and won BA Minor League Player of the Year. He recorded a 50-game on-base streak, hit a career-high 26 home runs and received his first major league callup Sept. 2. He got his first hit in his first career at-bat and took over as the Dodgers’ primary second baseman down the stretch.
Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman called Lux’s approach “the most mature I’ve ever been around in someone his age.” When Lux gets a pitch to hit, he explodes on it with
