MLB's Latest Three-Team Trade Impact: Tampa, Cincinnati, LA

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00:00So Tampa, Cincinnati, and the Angels were all in agreement on a three-team trade.

00:05So Josh Lowe goes to Anaheim, the outfielder that was previously with the Tampa Bay Rays.

00:10Gavin Lux goes from Cincinnati to Tampa Bay.

00:13And Chris Clark goes from Anaheim to Tampa Bay.

00:16And then Brock Burke goes from L.A. to the Cincinnati Reds.

00:21So the Reds get a left-handed reliever.

00:24Gavin Lux is a Tampa Bay Ray.

00:25And Josh Lowe is an L.A. Angel.

00:27What matters most to you among those three?

00:31Josh Lowe to the Angels.

00:33I think he's the best player included in this deal.

00:35And we were talking about the Angels outfield and how it might start to look like a bunch of D.H.'s out there.

00:42And what are they going to do and how they needed a left-handed outfielder.

00:47And they got one in Josh Lowe, who I know I think you agree.

00:50And I know Arum would definitely agree that still so much potential, you know, in that bat.

00:54They didn't have to give up that much.

00:56But I think another big winner from this trade is none of the other three teams.

01:01It's the Dodgers.

01:02And I know that sounds awful, but it's the truth.

01:05And you know why?

01:06The Dodgers got Mike Sirota in exchange for Gavin Lux just a year ago.

01:11Mike Sirota was drafted originally or not.

01:15Was he drafted originally by the Dodgers?

01:17I know he was scouted.

01:18And then he went to the Reds and the Dodgers ID'd him as a guy that they wanted to bring in.

01:23They bring him in.

01:24And now he's a top 50 prospect in baseball, according to Arum's top 100, which you can find on justbaseball.com.

01:31And the Reds, you trade a potential top 50 prospect.

01:36And I say potential.

01:37He is right now.

01:38For one year of Gavin Lux, it didn't really work out.

01:41And now you bring in a left-handed reliever in Block Burke, who I like.

01:45Burke has had a big kind of, how do I describe just a big velo uptick?

01:50I wanted to call it a renaissance because he was throwing 99 to 100 miles an hour, right?

01:56A velo uptick is like 94 to 95.

01:58This guy is going all the way up to 99 to 100 miles an hour.

02:02Right.

02:02He's reinventing himself.

02:03Yeah.

02:03So I like bringing in Burke, but when you rewind the tape a little bit to just a year ago,

02:11you basically gave up Mike Sirota for 0.3 F4 Gavin Lux, and now you get Brock Burke.

02:18Counter is, I don't think they care about the optic perspective of that.

02:23I don't think they do either.

02:24I just think that's the result.

02:26Right.

02:27Especially on the heels of their failed pursuit of Tucker and the reasoning behind,

02:31or not Tucker, Schwarber, and their reasoning behind their pursuit of Kyle Schwarber.

02:36Mike Sirota, by the way, was a Dodger draft pick out of high school.

02:4016th round pick in 2021.

02:42He opted to go to Northeastern, and then the Cincinnati Reds took him in the third round

02:46after he had a little bit of a strugglish draft year at Northeastern in a mid-major conference.

02:52But Mike Sirota, to your point, blossomed into a top 50 prospect in the game.

02:56I just don't think that they were going to hold Gavin Lux because they were wanting to

03:01see him accumulate to war to make moving Sirota worth it.

03:04It just doesn't work that way.

03:06And Lux was going to hold up a spot that should probably go elsewhere.

03:11I'm thinking, like, he's not going to play DH if McClain is fully healthy, or he's not

03:15going to play second if McClain is fully healthy because Matt McClain should be playing second

03:20base every day.

03:20You've got to figure out what you have there.

03:22He's not going to DH every day because Steer is playing first, so Sal Stewart needs to DH.

03:27And Sal Stewart can't play third because Brian Hayes is at third.

03:30Now, the roster just made no sense to keep Gavin Lux on it.

03:34And the Reds, credit to them, they've rejuvenated their bullpen.

03:38Their bullpen was kind of flushed and built back up from scratch.

03:41They brought Emilio Pagan back.

03:43That bullpen looks pretty darn good.

03:45But I'm with you.

03:45The focal point of this was certainly Lowe going to Anaheim.

03:50Josh Lowe has underperformed in recent years, but we're two years removed from an 835 OPS

03:55in north of 130 games.

03:57He hit 292 in 2023 with Tampa.

04:00It was a struggle year last year.

04:01But you know what, hoping for the best for Josh Lowe, hoping for the best for Lux in

04:06Tampa, and hoping for the best for Brock Burke in Cincinnati.

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