Gavin Lux is absolutely recovered from surgical procedure that repaired the 2 major ligaments in his knee and was assured that he can be the beginning shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers coming into camp.
Nevertheless, it’s taking him somewhat longer to return to beginning shortstop kind.
Lux has been struggling to make constant throws to first base and if it weren’t for a Gold Glove first baseman in Freddie Freeman, he would have greater than two errors this spring.
On Thursday, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts was even noncommittal about naming Lux his Opening Day shortstop.
Lux remains to be attempting to get comfy, and made that clear on Wednesday after his tough outing.
“I’m nonetheless attempting to really feel out my knee and every little thing and get comfy with that. I haven’t actually performed protection in a 12 months and a half, so I’m simply getting on the market and attempting to get as many sport reps as potential, and I’m engaged on the again fields and on the minor league facet as a lot as potential to attempt to expedite this course of.”
Roberts has faith in Lux and believes these errors may very well be from him not enjoying baseball in a 12 months. He expects that Lux goes “to maintain getting higher with repetitions.”
“To do something the place you’re attempting to be excellent is troublesome, and I believe there’s some a part of it the place he hasn’t performed baseball in fairly a while. As he’s making performs and attempting to get it throughout the diamond, he’s attempting to be too tremendous. I don’t suppose it’s the mechanics of it. I believe it’s simply releasing himself as much as be the athlete that he’s.”
The Dodgers open their season in two weeks, so Lux doesn’t have a lot time to show to Roberts that he’s able to go as an on a regular basis shortstop.
And if he’s not able to go by Opening Day, the Dodgers have Miguel Rojas ready within the wings — however he doesn’t have the identical offensive pop that Lux has.
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