Los Angeles Dodgers: Three biggest questions for the postseason roster

1. Does Gavin Lux make the roster and what is his role?

As someone who was very high on Gavin Lux before the mainstream baseball media caught on to him, I never expected to have this conversation this early. I expected Lux to be a September call-up and be the Opening Day starting second baseman in 2020. I did not expect him to be a potential piece to this playoff puzzle.

But here we are. Lux had one of the most memorable minor league seasons for any Dodger in recent memory and even took home Baseball America‘s Minor League Player of the Year. I guess that is what happens when you hit .347 with 26 home runs and 76 RBIs in 113 games.

Lux has shown us some of those flashes since joining the big league club but has had some predictable struggles as well. He finished his first big league month hitting .240 with two homers, nine RBIs and nine runs scored. His strikeout rate, which was something that he thrived at in the minors, was nearly 30 percent.

But the Dodgers kept rolling him out in the starting lineup, which leads many to believe that he will indeed make the playoff roster. He ended up starting 19 of his 23 games since September 2, which is saying something.

However, there is another man who is going to be vying for time at second base and that is Chris Taylor, who has really overcome a slow start and has much more experience in the postseason than Lux.

With Joc Pederson, A.J. Pollock and Cody Bellinger in the outfield, Taylor really has nowhere else to go if the team is healthy and it is definitely understandable if the Dodgers are more comfortable with him over a rookie in Lux.

But if they plan on sitting Lux then is it even worth keeping him on, or do they give that spot to someone else? With David Freese, Enrique Hernandez and Russell Martin all being locks for the bench, the Dodgers could very well go with Matt Beaty over Lux if they don’t plan on starting Lux.