While Kyle Tucker dominated baseball’s headlines, the Rays, Angels and Reds reportedly worked out a three-team trade. Outfielder Josh Lowe heads from Tampa Bay to the Angels. The Rays acquire utilityman Gavin Lux from Cincinnati and minor league pitcher Chris Clark from the Halos. The Reds get left-handed reliever Brock Burke from Los Angeles. The teams have not officially announced the deal.
It’s the second trade involving an everyday outfielder for the Angels this offseason. This time, the player is coming their way. Lowe will fill the outfield void left by Taylor Ward, who was shipped to Baltimore for Grayson Rodriguez. Tampa Bay entered the winter with a pair of Lowes, but the club will head into 2026 without either one. The versatile Lux can fill the void left by the Brandon Lowe deal. Cincinnati nets a veteran southpaw, while also getting off the $5.525MM contract Lux received in arbitration. Burke will make about half of that this season.
Lowe seemed like a fixture in Tampa Bay’s lineup after a massive 20/30 campaign in 2023. He posted a 135 wRC+ in his first season as a regular. Injuries would stifle his production the next two seasons. Oblique and hamstring issues delayed the start of his 2024 season. The oblique cost him time later that year, and then again at the beginning of this past season. He wasn’t productive when healthy this year, stumbling to a career-worst 79 wRC+ behind a .220/.283/.366 batting line. Lowe hit .139 with a 35.3% strikeout rate in his final month with the team.
With Ward gone and Mike Trout penciled in at DH, the Angels had limited options in the outfield prior to the move. Lowe will now slot in alongside Jo Adell and Jorge Soler. The Rays shielded him from lefties for much of his time there, and with good reason. Lowe has a .504 OPS and a 33% strikeout rate in his limited work against same-handed pitching (288 plate appearances). He could be ticketed for regular at-bats given the lack of a platoon partner. The right-handed bench outfielder is currently Bryce Teodosio, a glove-first option. Trout only made 22 starts in the outfield last season, but that could change considering the alternatives.
A former first-round pick, Lowe is a plus runner who has slightly above-average bat speed. The aforementioned 20-30 season hints at his physical upside, but the durability and strikeout concerns kept him from establishing himself as a cornerstone player. He has only once reached 500 plate appearances in a season.
Lowe played a little bit of center field early in his career. The vast majority of his experience has come in right, and he has only logged seven innings up the middle over the past two seasons. He’d be stretched in center defensively, yet that’s also true of Trout and Adell. The Halos will probably need to live with rough up-the-middle defense from Lowe or Adell to get a better bat than Teodosio’s in the lineup, at least until 20-year-old center field prospect Nelson Rada arrives.
Tampa Bay and Lowe settled on a $2.6MM deal to avoid arbitration this year. It was his first trip through the process. He’s controlled for three seasons and still has a minor league option remaining, so the Halos could send him down without putting him on waivers. The Angels’ estimated payroll on RosterResource still sits at about $30MM below last year’s mark.
The Reds acquired Lux last offseason in a trade with the Dodgers. He delivered league-average results at the plate in his lone season in Cincinnati, hitting .269/.350/.374 with five homers over a career-high 503 plate appearances. Lux made most of his appearances in left field, while also spending time at second base and third base. He was also used frequently as a pinch hitter.
Lux was one of Cincinnati’s more reliable on-base hitters, but he has never developed into much of a power threat. The former top prospect hasn’t hit more than 10 homers in any of his five-plus MLB seasons. Last winter’s change of scenery trade and move to Great American Ball Park didn’t really move the needle. The left-handed hitter has a solid offensive floor but probably doesn’t have much untapped upside as he enters his age-28 season.
The bigger drawback is that Lux has never settled into a clear positional home. He has moved around less because he’s an incredibly versatile and more due to his defensive struggles at various positions. His throwing accuracy has been an intermittent issue on the infield, even at second base. Defensive metrics haven’t looked favorably upon his work in the corner outfield.
The Rays had a clear gap at second base after the (first) Lowe trade. The internal choices were uninspiring, though Richie Palacios has some similarities as a left-handed hitter whose came is built around his on-base skills. Lux should step into a near-everyday role, with Tampa Bay’s typical platoon shenanigans likely capping his reps against left-handed pitching. He could also get some rotational corner outfield work, replacing Josh Lowe as a lefty bat in an outfield that remains without much certainty. Lux is a one-year addition who’ll reach free agency for the first time next winter.
The Angels claimed Burke, coincidentally a former Rays’ draftee, off waivers from the Rangers in August 2024. His one-and-a-half years with the club represented one of the better stretches of his big league career. Burke put together a 3.40 ERA across 90 appearances as an Angel. He pitched in a career-high 69 games last year. The 29-year-old is in his final year of arbitration and will hit free agency next season.
Burke was able to tap into more velocity after joining the Angels. He sat 94-95 mph after transitioning from the rotation to the bullpen with the Rangers. In L.A., Burke bumped his heater to 96 mph. He also upped his slider usage with the club. Burke had a career-high 30.5% strikeout rate with the Angels in 2024. That number fell by more than 10 points in 2025, but he counteracted it with a career-best 53.3% ground-ball rate. Burke doesn’t have huge platoon splits and isn’t a situational specialist so much as a generally steady arm whom Terry Francona can use in the middle innings.
Cincinnati relied on Taylor Rogers as its primary lefty last season, until he was sent to the Cubs at the deadline. The Reds have added Burke and Caleb Ferguson to fill the role for 2026. They also tendered a contract to the out-of-options Sam Moll, so it seems they’ll begin the season with three veteran lefties in the relief corps.
Clark was a fifth-round pick by the Angels in 2023. He posted a 4.73 ERA across 28 minor league appearances this past season. Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs praised Clark’s developing changeup and loose arm action heading into the 2025 campaign. The righty uses a sinker and sweeper as his two main pitches. A changeup would fit in nicely. The 24-year-old Clark topped out at Double-A last year. He made just one start at the level and will likely be back there to open the 2026 season.
Jeff Passan of ESPN was first on the trade. Respective images via Chris Tilley, Gary A. Vasquez of Imagn Images.
Classic baseball move. No need for the Dodgers.
Dodgers got two legit prospects for Lux. Reds get a relief pitcher? They are smarter than everyone else too
They have more leverage
The Reds traded a comp A pick for him. Nobody forced them to do that
Yeah but they can afford to keep a bad player…
He still had prospects vapors dripping off him. He now is what he is.
Reds were just stupid to make that trade. Dunno if Dodgers are smart but they are smarter than many teams.
If Lux can get his form back again and regain his confidence, he has an excellent bat.
I hope he has a great year.
Or the Reds aren’t as smart as some?
Everyone’s over in the Tucker announcement lol
There will be like 3 comments on this post
Nah, my fellow Reds fans will find time to whine that the OF in the trade is going to the Angels and not the Reds.
Me mad
The reliever is solid and lux is gone, chefs kiss
And they wont be able to score runs…..
Not because lux is gone
You really think they are going to get anything of value to help the offense? I dont think so.
Lux being gone is great but we can’t forget the fact we traded Mike Sirota a legit top 50 prospect in the game for him. I am actually a big fan of Nick Krall and the reds scouting department they’ve had some major wins in the draft an international market but this was a massive mistake
Hindsight is twenty twenty. and if Burke and lux were both free agents right now I’d still be glad they got Burke. Teams pivot from offense to pitching all the time like the Sox just did. Sure in a perfect world the reds would sign bichette or something but I can still be glad they helped the bullpen and moved lux.
No hindsight needed. All the experts said Sirota was great. Lux just a guy. Plus a high draft pick in a strong deep draft class. It was a awful trade for Cincinnati. Fleece by LA.
Lux .361 obp. Not easy to replace.
@AI GM. They can get rengifo and watch him look like Ozzie Smith one play and throw home when a runner is on first.
Rexhudler86 Lux was mostly a outfielder for them. They seem to have infield options or at least guys who need a look. Might be a fit though.
@oppo nacho. Burke is good. I know angels picked him up on waivers so it sounds scary, but his problem wasn’t from his delivery. He was to far right on the rubber and it was a simple fix. the angels d probably inflated his numbers. Either way a cheap bullpen arm with upside.
He wasn’t a good power bat fit for what we need anyway.
There are 58 so far
Who is going to play CF for the Angels? And…another corner outfielder? Does Minasian realizes there are only two corner outfield spots?
My thought as well, maybe other moves coming?
I have to assume Teodosio. I don’t hate it
Trout, Adell, Soler, Lowe. What’s the point?
Can’t say that I’ve seen him pitch a whole lot but isn’t Burke more valuable to LAA than Lowe, or are the Angels not sold on either Burke’s K-rate or likelihood of regression?
And the Angels lost Clark. And for what? A superfluous corner outfielder?
like it or not, lowe can play against RHP which are the majority of starters. that leaves adell in another cOF spot and puts trout and soler in line for semi-regular DH time, presuming theyre healthy at the same time. teodosio and meckler will provide better defense in a cf platoon than what we had last year and peraza provides backup at all IF positions.
@halo11fan. Trout is the centerfielder. Lowe is replacing ward.
lol Soler aint playing in the OF anymore, cmon.
Relief pitchers are extremely volatile especially ones without long track records of success so they probably think Lowe has a better chance at a bounce back than Burke does at repeating his success he had last year. If Lowe puts up anything near the 4WAR he did in ’23 this is an absolute steal for Anaheim.
@halo. I guess soler could get moved with money sent. Still doubt it lowe is in the outfield. Teodosio and meckler are battling for the 4th, and trout is CF.
I agree. But I have to imagine that Trout splits CF duties with Teodosio. With Jorge Soler as DH whenever Trout plays CF.
@orange2001. I think they will crash and burn with trout at CF. Meckler and teodosio battle for the 4th until rada comes up mid-season. Of course injuries will happen but lowe can maybe replace ward if he plays like he did two years ago. They can replace Burke with chafin or garcia. All the moves are money related and perry is trying to get lucky putting his powerball numbers in. Sell the team arte you cheap s.o.b.
Trout should be a corner outfielder at this point of his career, but adding Lowe pretty much eliminates any chance of that happening with Lowe and Adell at the corners. So, I think that Trout will be alternating between CF/DH.
I’m fine with either Teodosio or Meckler as the 4th OF.
Brock is essentially replaced with Drew Pomeranz.
I’m still hoping that they will pick up a legit CF, then trade Jorge Soler for a minor leaguer or two.
@orange. I agree but it doesn’t look like the plan. They actually saved money on this trade. Trout is more valuable at CF. They got another maybe player with injury concerns. As far as Burke they will sign someone. The outfield market is dry like Arturo pen as far as spending. This offseason is a bunch of lotto tickets and maybe it works. The outfield market is a trap so I get it, its a trade and flip kinda deal.
I assume they’ll make Lowe do it. Or just tell Trout to stop injuring himself.
you know, telling Trout to stay healthy just might work. don’t know that the Angels have ever tried that. love it.
Hopefully this also means Scary Perry has found a deal for Soler to free up outfield reps for Lowe and DH ABs for Trout.
They’re moving the CF fence into a corner shape. So now they can play 3 corner outfielders
How many times has a team been in a three team trade in one off-season? Tampa Bay feels like they’d have that record.
THE ANGELS MADE A GOOD MOVE????
i’ll be waiting for that announcement patiently
Sorry, how is swapping Burke for Lowe a good move? Burke was the only stability in the bullpen last season,aside from Jansen.
You’re telling me Burke for 3 years for a 27yr old OF isn’t a good move? I love Burke and he was a solid Halo but there’s about a million RPs left in the market and some intriguing in house options.
Nobody hates playing baseball more than Josh Lowe now that Anthony Rendon is done.
@tyler it would be if the player they got was any good. You really think Lowe improves the team? I don’t.
The Angels got a good player, not sure if it was a good move
JLowe, good player? Sadly, below average.
They’ve made a couple this off-season, actually, but I’m not sure this is one of them.
Lots going on tonight within the last few minutes.
One of the trades of all time.
Yes, it certainly was a three-team trade.
Wow the Reds will be good at preventing runs but wont be able to score.
Preventing runs on both sides of the game!
I don’t think trading an outfielder for a reliever was necessary expected by the Reds when the Reds need an… outfielder. But not a terrible move…
Very generous of you to call Lux an outfielder.
You should see the rest of our outfield!
At least the rest can play outfield. Lux can’t play the outfield period. I’m not even sure he can play the infield and he is to light of a hitter to be the DH.
I’ll take Lux over Walls any day of the week!
Well buckle up because Dane Myers is about to be our DH
While maybe not the highest impact move possible, the Reds may have moved to the front of the line for Nick Castellanos and the $16MM or more in Phillies cash that it’s going to take for Philadelphia to shed his contract.
I honestly think Castellanos could have a resurgence if he came back to Cincinnati. I think that is the best move they could make the rest of the off season and it helps them that it seems the Phillies will pay the majority of his contract to get rid of him.
Welp, time for me to stand in front of a city bus, with my last words cursing Castellini.
Stewart is probably the dh when Elly isn’t getting a day off
Like there’s a line for Nick Castellanos!
Why give up someone and pay him $4 million when there’s a good chance you can sign him for the minimum after the Phils release him?
Pity the reds just couldn’t say whoops and get back what they gave up for lux
Krall wouldn’t do that. He values his place as Friedman’s mistress.
So now Adell, Soler, Trout, and Lowe can all cover right field but we have nobody good in center or left.
Brilliant.
I think Adell can play an adequate left. He played an adequate right.
He was a horrible CF.
I don’t understand this move foe the angels. But then, they never do anything that makes sense.
Keli , I don’t either. Do we really need a platoon corner outfielder?
Well the other OFs including Teodoro all bat right so from a platoon perspective he fits?
I remember when they tried him in left to open the 2023 season. It was worse than last year in CF.
Dunno why but I like both lower not being a ray and lux being one.. not even on a team basis. Just think its good for both.
Only real baseball fans also care about this and not just dodgers Tucker
Someone remind Perry that the Angels need a CF, not another corner outfielder
Classic . The Angels get poor man’s Kyle Tucker the Doyers get Kyle Tucker.
Do not disrespect Josh Lowe he can become a really good ball player
102 lifetime OPS+. 306 lifetime OBP. And he’s 28 years old.
No… he can’t be. This is why the Rays are the Rays and the Angels are the Angels.
Lowe has had flashes of greatness but has really struggled possibly due to family issues, mental issues, and injuries. A great change of scenery candidate tbh, but he would never rebound with the Rays
Flashes, sure. And if he was a CF I’d love it. But he’s a bad defensive corner outfielder.
That kind of sounded like Byron Buxtons career offense before this season
Lowe will not get as high as Buxton but all it takes is a healthy season and something could happen
He has shown zero ability to play defense or hit RHP.
Do the Angels really need a platoon corner outfielder?
I don’t know about the Angels’ needs but you could be right. I don’t think his defense will suddenly improve in the corner, but there is hope that his bat can improve with some new coaching. Time will tell.
My bad LHP
“but has really struggled possibly due to family issues, mental issues, and injuries.”
He’ll fit in perfectly with the Angels.
I like PM, but I don’t care for this trade. The big blunder was missing out on the Japanese 3B Okamoto . He was a perfect fit for the Angels. He would have been affordable and hoped to play for the Angels, I wonder if they would have signed him and maybe Imai if the court case would have ended a little later. I do think the team might be sold after the the contract with the union is done. I think he thought there was too many unknown dark clouds for new owners, I think he was going to let Perry spend around last years money and if he could get Rendon’s contract done he could have that space to work with. This year after the new bargaining agreement, Probably would in his mind be the perfect time to sell, Everything is pretty much a clear slate after 26.
The court case hurt more than he thought, The money from Rendon Is now going mostly to pay the court case and the loss of a TV network deal.
Brace yourselves… Lux about to morph into what prospect lists predicted him to be.
On the Rays? Doubtful, but he’s a massive improvement over seeing Walls there all year.
Not sure I agree. He can’t steal bases, hit for power, or get on base at a special clip.
Agree @braves. Got a feeling he’s gonna stick at 2nd next year, and hit close to .300.
So far he’s dealt with injuries, and a big position switch. If he can settle in and stay reasonably healthy, he still looks like he can become an above average bat.
Rays need to run a promotion of free tickets to anyone that can name more than 5 players on the team. I’m seriously searching at this point: Diaz, Aranda, Junior, Palacios, Jax, and… who?
Forgetting out awesome acquisition last year? Baker!
But c’mon man, if you watch them you know. Simpson, McLanahan, Pepiot, DeLuca… Many guys left.
Forgot about Pepiot. Good call. Shane and Johnny B. Goode are great, but haven’t played in a while. Kinda feel bad about forgetting Simpson, but I was boycotting Stu last year.
Looks like they are trading a whole lot of nothing. All disappointing players. Weak prospects. Brock Burke is oddly the most intriguing.
Nothing 700 ops players.
So does this mean Adell is going to be the CF now with Trout and Lowe in the corners? TB must really have no confidence in Lowe.
Ngl, this is a weird trade on all fronts.
Or they realized how easily replaced a corner outfielder is and would rather have a pitching prospect and fill a much harder to replace position 2b.
The second time Burke has been involved in a three-team trade. The first time was in a deal for his new teammate Emilio Pagan. I like the deal for the Reds.
looks like the Reds are getting a decent left handed reliever… can’t have too many arms, not a bad trade for the Reds
Was it 4D chess or just dumb luck that Tampa bailed Kroll out of his questionable decision to tender a 2026 contract to Lux in the first place?
Like they say, I guess anything including an MLB contract is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it.
.361 obp 2b is a bargain at 5m.
Seems like a nice deal for the Reds. Burke is very useful and Lux seemed like a non-tender candidate.
Burke is the best player in this deal.
@halosheavenjj. Lowe is probably the best outfielder available. Bader is probably out of their range after that it’s bleday or hays. Guess trout is center field and angels will get another reliever, and pack it up.
I look forward to seeing Trout for 20-30 games this year.
.361 obp .761 ops guys making 5m or whatever aren’t non tender candidates. Why he was traded and not non tender.
@AI GM. Agree he’s probably the best outfielder available as far as we know. Talking about in the angels price range my guess Bader for 12 million was to expensive. Trout likes center, and at this point he can get hurt walking into the dugout still a 20 million dollar player most coming from his defense. Angels grab another 5 million reliever on a one deal and trade at the deadline to compensate losing Clarke
Rexhudler86 I was talking about Lux but Lowe is positive value as well.
@AI. My bad. At the end of the day it’s just reshuffling the deck. I can see them all being moved at the deadline. Burke being the most possible, lowe next, and lux is just a stop gap and rays got a prospect.
After opening day I won’t watch another baseball game ever again. Thank you dodgers
Avg player swap..yawn
Finally some news tonight
I’m calling it here. Lowe has better stats than Tucker next year!
You’re making a much more bold prediction about Tucker than I am, though I really don’t think he’s going to be better with the Dodgers than he’s been over his last two injury-shortened, slump-affected seasons.
I feel like the Angels bought lowe here… 😉
Actually I’m glad for the lefty reliever who will do more for them than Lux.
But…are you reinvesting that 5 million plus the excess under last year’s payroll to upgrade the outfield? Or just sitting on your hands still?
We both know the answer, but I love this trade for the reds
We need left handed power and I don’t see much of that left in either the free agent market that we can afford or the trade market.
This is actually a frustrating move. Not because Lux provides value, but because the rays clearly wanted him. When the hot stove season started and all the talk about schwarber that I knew we couldn’t afford, I scoured other teams rosters to look for left handed hitters with 30 home run power and either last year of a team friendly deal or final year of arbitration that we could trade for. Brandon Lowe of the Rays stood out.
Brandon Lowe was in the final year of his deal set to make $12 million, a career 123 ops+, average of 35 home runs in 162 games and coming off a 30 home run season at age 31. At the time I was thinking maybe Brady singer for him with similar salary & team control since we have somewhat of starting pitching surplus and rays still need a starter I think.
The rays traded him to the pirates in a 3 team deal that sent the Astros #5 prospect and a former prospect that has fizzled in parts of 2 seasons to the rays. Couldn’t we have offered say lux who the rays evidently wanted and one of our better prospects say Rodriguez or lux and say CES one of our former prospects that hasn’t worked out to the rays for Brandon Lowe a proven 30 home run power left handed bat over the last 6 years to hit cleanup behind ELDC? It’s the type of question I plan to ask at Redsfest this weekend.
Since Krall took over I have noticed a trend. The reds seem to stockpile players or mlb ready prospects at certain positions or areas and neglect an area of need. A few years ago it was middle infielders. I guess now it’s left handed relief pitchers. A month ago we only had Sam Moll and now we have 4, two of which are high leverage, 8th inning types. Still no left handed power and running out of potential options.
Bye Bye Burke welcome Lowe
I like this for Cincy, now they need to trade for a nice bat.
Reds save 3.2M swapping these players. I like it for strengthening the pitching.
Now can you PLEASE work on the bats?! I’m so sick of losing 1-0, or 2-1!! Damn!
This is better than the Tucker news
Tampa must have signed a sponsorship deal with the Home Depot. Clearing out all of their Lowe’s.
I’m shocked the Rays got someone with 1 year of team control left. Burke is a great reliever when on, and Lowe is also not bad.
Anyways, Brock Burke is one reliever I saw often. He’s a high leverage guy I think that was used by Bochy a lot, and against the Astros in the ALCS. Nice facing you Burke, see you in Cincy.
Got a guy with 6 years of team control left. Might get another one if they trade Lux.
Josh Lowe had his moment in 2023, but since then? .220/.283/.366 in 2025. That’s not a bat you build around—that’s a lottery ticket you hope doesn’t bounce. If this three-way deal with the Rays and Reds is real, feels like we’re buying high on a name, not a bat.
We need production, not projections. Not sold.
He had a great start to 2024 as well. He’s had a lot on his plate since 2023 that you can find with a quick Google, but the situation reminds me of Stephen Piscotty’s a few years back. Long way of saying I don’t think the talent has changed and I would mostly disregard his recent stats.
And recent stats are fine. Above 700 ops vs RHP. Higher road ops.
Corner OFer. Replacement quality.
Artie Moreno cucked by the Dodgers yet again, this time in the news department
Dude does it to himself.
Makes you wonder if the Angels were in on Tucker…quickly adding OF help after that signing
We could have pivoted Bellinger if that was the case. I’m sure we were not in on Tucker.
I’m partially joking. Lowe is no Tucker. But the timing is weird
If the Angels weren’t in on Ohtani, they weren’t in on Tucker.
Trading one of the better pitchers on your roster for a guy who produced 0.1 bWAR last year is classic Angels.
Angels did awesome. Hopefully they aren’t using bwar.
Can Lowe play CF? Will be curious who spends more time on DL between him, Troat and Tucker over on the Dodgers in 2026.
Adell will be in CF with Lowe in RF and Soler in LF
Teoscar Hernandez and significant relief on his remaining salary may be available now.
Let the reds go get him ! Thats exactly who they need
When will the Reds ADD an outfielders? I don’t understand what they’re doing!
Agree, they have removed 4 (Hays, Andujar, Fraley, Lux) and have added two depth pieces in Bleday and Myers. They have some work to do!
Guess the “…more to come” part will be after the Jays fans that write here wake up from drinking themselves to sleep over Tucker.
A for Angels. 3 years of Lowe 700 ops with possibility of mid or high. For 1 year of a easily replaced reliever.
C for Cincinnati. Lux wasn’t a great fit. Shed some salary.
B for Tampa. I like the prospect. They need a 2b. Any luck trade him at deadline for another prospect.
D for Angels. Sub-replacement level OFer. Poor fielder. But, easy on the eyes.
D-.The angels have never done well acquiring the former Rays.
Angels get three years of control and a .772 career OPS vs RHP for a soon to be free agent that plays a position where annual results are notoriously volatile. I would prefer less swing and miss, but im on board as long as Lowe isn’t in the lineup vs LHP. As a side note, in a crazy low sample size (27 PAs), Lowe has hit exceedingly well at Angels Stadium… albeit vs Angels pitching.
Lux should replace Brandon Lowe at 2B for the Rays next season. Burke gives the Reds a solid lefty out of the pen and Lowe gives the Angels some lefty pop which, they don’t really have
In other news, the Dodgers announced they bought Greenland for $1 Trillion just so Trump couldn’t get it.
98% of it deferred
Two time World Series Champion Gavin Lux.
As if the Angel didn’t need more bullpen arms! Face palm!
This seems like a completely lost season anyway. Who cares who they lose and what dud is added. Fire away, Minassian!
One great thing is Arte Morono couldn’t sign tucker for 10/350.
Rada is the center fielder of the future maybe even late this year? Look for Soler to get moved. Lowe was only acquired because he bats from the left side.
This Clark guy better be Nolan Ryan-type good. Lowe was a great guy who had 30-30 type potential who just got unlucky with injuries. Do the Rays really think Fraley, Mullins, and Simpson is the best they can do at outfield? Do they really think a non-hitting Lux at 2b and worse than Mendoza Taylor Walls at SS are their best options up the middle? I’m sure Diaz is going to be traded for peanuts and some .200 hitting 1b man with no power is going to be all they get for him. Just a shame what the Rays management is doing to this team. They go from almost winning a title in 2020, then trade Snell, Adames, Arozarena, Paredes, both Lowes, Baz, probably Diaz, and I’m sure Rasmussen and McClanahan are next. And for what? Sell the team again and either get owners that will give Tampa fans the title they deserve, or move them out of Florida and let central Florida fans try their luck with expansion and a new ownership group. Shame on you, Rays ownership!!