{"id":135777,"date":"2026-01-16T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135777\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:13:10","slug":"rays-angels-reds-in-wild-3-way-trade-amid-kyle-tucker-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135777\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays, Angels, Reds in wild 3-way trade amid Kyle Tucker bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the MLB world comes to grips with Kyle Tucker’s bombshell decision<\/a> to take his talents to the reigning World Series Champions Los Angeles Dodgers, another baseball transaction emerged on Thursday<\/a>, as reported by Jeff Passan of ESPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree-way trade news: Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> are in agreement on a deal that will send outfielder Josh Lowe to the Angels, infielder Gavin Lux<\/a> and right-hander Chris Clark to the Rays and left-handed reliever Brock Burke to the Reds, sources tell ESPN,\u201d Passan shared via a social media post on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

For the Angels, this transaction is clearly not even remotely close to the impact of their cross-town LA residents’ move on Tucker. But they get an asset with multiple years of team control in the 27-year-old Lowe.<\/a><\/p>\n

The outfielder Lowe avoided arbitration earlier this January by signing a one-year contract worth $2.6 million. He still is arbitration-eligible for two more years. In the 2025 campaign with the Rays, Lowe hit just .220\/.283\/.366 with 11 home runs and 40 RBIs in 108 games and 4335 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

The Rays get the 28-year-old Lux, who will be a free agent after the 2026 campaign. The outfielder inked a one-year, $5.525 million contract with the Reds last week to avoid arbitration. Tampa Bay becomes Lux’s third team since 2024. The Dodgers traded him to the Reds<\/a> in January 2025. Over the last two seasons, Lux, who missed the entire 2023 campaign with a knee injury, hit .260\/.335\/.379 with 15 home runs and 103 RBIS in 279 games and 990 plate appearances. As for Clark, he’s another arm shoring up the Rays’ farm.<\/p>\n

This story is being updated.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the Reds land Brock Burke, who brings some winning experience to Cincinnati. The 29-year-old southpaw won a World Series with the Texas Rangers in 2023 before parting ways with Texas in 2024. The Angels claimed him off waivers shortly after that and signed him to a couple of one-year deals to avoid arbitrations in 2025 and 2026, respectively. Burke has a career 3.88 ERA in 214 appearances in the big leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the MLB world comes to grips with Kyle Tucker’s bombshell decision to take his talents to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,9004,69217,2866,61167,48889],"class_list":{"0":"post-135777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-gavin-lux","13":"tag-los-angeles-angels","14":"tag-mlb-stories","15":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}