Expected Dodgers SS Lux out for season after knee injury
Gavin Lux hasn’t seen the video of the harm that ended his probability of being the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ beginning shortstop this season and has no plans to observe it.
Lux will miss the season with torn ligaments in his proper knee after getting damage working the bases in a spring coaching sport. The 25-year-old got here to camp as the highest candidate to exchange the departed Trea Turner because the Dodgers’ shortstop.
“That’s one of the hardest parts,” Lux said Tuesday, while fighting back tears and leaning on crutches inside the team’s facility in Glendale, Arizona. “I think every baseball player’s dream is to play shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers.”
Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts known as the harm an enormous blow and stated his coronary heart goes out the younger infielder.
Lux obtained damage Monday when working between second and third base towards San Diego after a groundball was hit. Soon after ducking to keep away from a throw, he took a few steps earlier than his proper knee buckled, he stumbled ahead and fell to the bottom. He stated he felt one thing pop and his leg went numb.
“I tried to duck out of the way of the throw, and I think my cleat got kind of stuck into the ground a little bit and straightened out a little funky, and bowed out, and yeah, I kind of rolled up on my ankle, too. Freak thing, I don’t even think it’s really avoidable,” Lux stated. “In hindsight, probably should have just took the throw to the nose and worn it.”
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The Dodgers’ first-round decide within the 2016 newbie draft, Lux performed solely 9 video games at shortstop final season whereas hitting .276 in 129 video games, most at second base and a few in left subject. He led the NL with seven triples, whereas hitting six homers and driving in 42 runs.
Turner, the beginning shortstop final 12 months, left as a free agenct for Philadelphia. That got here after Corey Seager left the Dodgers the earlier offseason and signed with Texas.
“Crush my rehab and try to be ready for, you know, 2024, when it rolls around,” Lux stated. “It’s kind of all you can do.”
GLASNOW STRAIN
Tyler Glasnow will miss the beginning of one other season for the Tampa Bay Rays.
After not making his debut final season till September following Tommy John surgical procedure, Glasnow is anticipated to overlook six to eight weeks due to a left indirect pressure.
The Rays stated Tuesday that an MRI detected a grade 2 pressure. That got here a day after the 29-year-old right-hander, who signed a $30.35 million, two-year contract, reduce brief throwing reside batting apply after six pitches.
Glasnow was the Rays’ opening day starter in 2021, when he went 5-2 with a 2.66 ERA in 14 begins. The 6-foot-8 Glasnow then missed almost 14 months due to the Tommy John surgical procedure.
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