{"id":417478,"date":"2026-01-16T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:01:09","slug":"josh-lowe-to-angels-lux-to-rays-burke-to-reds-in-3-team-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417478\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Lowe to Angels, Lux to Rays, Burke to Reds in 3-team trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f8a579c6-08b9-7584-141d-317d0645763b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> sent outfielder <a data-player-guid=\"b248e598-9e65-5516-8407-c8d7db794f6d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40557\/josh-lowe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Lowe<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"053868c7-8bff-5edb-3cb6-f5490f33ef99\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> on Friday as part of a three-team trade in which left-handed reliever <a data-player-guid=\"09e28e81-8535-3335-053a-fb0ce1026226\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39945\/brock-burke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Burke<\/a> went from the Angels to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"04b65a0b-3cca-d795-0e21-23606470418a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Infielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40423\/gavin-lux\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Lux<\/a> moved from the Reds to the Rays and minor league right-hander Chris Clark from the Angels to the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe, who turns 28 on Feb. 2, batted a career-worst .220 with 11 homers and 40 RBIs last year. He injured his right oblique for the third time in 13 months and didn&#8217;t play between the March 28 opener and May 15.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46845936\/mlb-2025-26-free-agency-tracker-offseason-trades-moves\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768590068_122_r1516237_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47623012\/pierce-johnson-excited-join-emilio-pagan-reds-pitching-staff\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r144514_1296x729_16-9.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=origin.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Lowe has a one-year, $2.6 million contract and is on track to be eligible for free agency after the 2028 World Series. He has a .250 career average with 43 homers and 170 RBIs in five big league seasons, all with the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Lux, 28, hit .269 with five homers and 53 RBIs in his only season with the Reds. He agreed last week to a one-year, $5.525 million contract and can become a free agent after this year&#8217;s World Series.<\/p>\n<p>He has a .256 career average with 33 homers and 208 RBIs in six seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (2019-24) and Reds, who acquired him last January for minor league outfielder Mike Sirota and a draft pick. Lux missed the 2023 season after tearing his right ACL in a spring training game.<\/p>\n<p>Burke, 29, was 7-1 with a 3.36 ERA in 68 relief appearances and one start for the Angels. He has a $2.325 million salary and also can become a free agent after this year&#8217;s World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Clark, 24, was a fifth-round draft pick in 2023 from Harvard. He was 4-10 with a 4.73 ERA in 20 starts last year for Class A Inland Empire, High A Tri-City and Double-A Rocket City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays sent outfielder Josh Lowe to the Los Angeles Angels on Friday as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-417478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}