Dodgers News: Gavin Lux to Remain Sidelined Until Next Week at Best

Dodgers second baseman Gavin Lux hasn’t played since September 1, coping with a neck and higher again concern that additionally triggered him to overlook six video games in late August. Earlier than Friday’s recreation, Los Angeles supervisor Dave Roberts informed the media it’s going to be a short while longer earlier than we see him again in a recreation.

Gavin Lux would possibly swing a bat tomorrow, Dave Roberts stated, however is near per week from recreation exercise. Received’t go on the IL — Roberts stated they don’t really feel they should add the additional place participant (they view this present group as who they’re selecting from proper now for postseason).

The Dodgers can afford to let Lux take his time to get totally wholesome, with an insurmountable lead within the NL West and a fairly comfy lead for the very best report in baseball. The large concern, in fact, is that the prolonged layoff is as a result of damage being extra critical than Roberts and the Dodgers are letting on. The secondary concern could be Lux being out so lengthy that he’s not totally again within the groove by the point the postseason begins.

It’s fascinating that the Dodgers are opting to not put Lux on the injured listing. With Roberts not anticipating him again for an additional week, they might have positioned him on the IL on Friday and nonetheless had him again round that point. However Roberts says they don’t have anybody they need to name up from Triple-A, so there’s no roster purpose to formally sideline Lux.

Which means rookie James Outman is presumably out of the question for a postseason audition, regardless of his excellent play with Oklahoma Metropolis. With Trayce Thompson and Joey Gallo each accessible even when Cody Bellinger and Chris Taylor don’t escape of their slumps, the Dodgers have determined it makes extra sense to maintain Outman getting common taking part in time in Triple-A as an alternative of a bench function in Los Angeles.

The Dodgers have had some bad luck with injuries lately, however hopefully it’s only a complete lot of warning as they play out the stretch of comparatively meaningless video games earlier than the postseason begins.

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