Lucas Sims, born Lucas Sundberg Sims plays professional baseball as a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. He earns an annual salary of $1,250,000 from the Reds. He is 1.88 m tall and has a weight of102 kg.
Lucas grew up in Georgia where he was born on May 10, 1994. He attended Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia where he played baseball for the school’s baseball team. The Atlanta Braves selected him out of high school in 2012 during the first round of the 2012 MLB draft. He signed with the Braves and received $1.65 million as a signing bonus.
The Braves assigned him to play with the rookie-level Gulf Coast League Braves and Danville Braves that year for him to make his professional debut. He spent the 2013 season with the Class-A Rome Braves. The Braves sent Sims to play in the Arizona Fall League in 2015 where he opened the AFL season for the Peoria Javelinas and also started the Fall Stars Game.
Baseball America ranked him as the Brave’s number 13 best prospect in 2016. He made his MLB debut on August 1, 2017, for the Braves when they played versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Braves traded him in July 2018 to the Cincinnati Reds and he has been there since.
Does Lucas Sims Have Kids?
Lucas Sims has a daughter with his wife Dani Jozwowski. She was born in October 2021 and is called Palmar Louise Sims.