The Dodgers made some headlines on Tuesday when the team announced that top prospect Gavin Lux had been optioned. The team will be sending Lux to their off-site facility at USC to get more reps and at-bats in.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts appeared in front of the media on Tuesday to talk about the move. For Roberts, getting Lux caught up was the first priority, and moving him to USC allows that to happen much more effectively.
There’s a lot that goes into his swing, and he just wasn’t at this point in time, wasn’t synced up.