MLB · 2B · Tampa Bay Rays
Gavin Lux
B/T L/R · 5' 11" · 190 lb · born Kenosha, WI, USA · age 28 · draft 2016 rd 1 · played 2B 21, DH 7 · MLB debut 2019-09-02
Injured 60-Day · Right shoulder impingement (roster status, as of )
Scout’s note
Gavin Lux is a 28-year-old left-handed left fielder from Kenosha, Wisconsin, taken in the first round back in 2016. Over 552 big-league games he has hit .256 with a .713 OPS and 33 home runs — a useful bat that has never quite become a dangerous one.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $5.53M
- Tax hit
- $5.53M
- Service time
- 5 yr 114 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $5.5M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$5.525M (26) · agent Wasserman
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Tampa Bay Rays.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $5.53M
- Guaranteed
- $5.53M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The line
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