Orioles left-hander Chris Lee jokes about it now, but he says when he was a toddler his mother worried about him because he would constantly bump into things. Eventually she found out her son was legally blind in his right eye, a condition that couldn't be corrected by treatment or by surgery.
"I can't even see a big old 'H' on the [eye chart] screen; I have to get this close," Lee said Tuesday at Orioles minicamp in Sarasota, holding his hand about four inches from his face. "I have to get super close. If I shut one eye, everything is blurry.