How Lasik surgery saved a Phillies draft pick's career

Seth Lancaster, the Phillies 8th round pick, during his time with Coastal Carolina.Seth Lancaster gathered at his college house earlier this month with his girlfriend and some teammates as they scoured their cellphones hoping to see Lancaster’s name come across as a selection in the MLB Draft. And when he did — by the Phillies in the eight round — “everyone started jumping up and down like everyone does,” Lancaster said.

But that moment — the one Lancaster said is something he’ll never forget — likely never felt more unimaginable than it did a year earlier, when Lancaster struggled through his junior season at Coastal Carolina with a debilitating eye problem. He batted just .250 as a junior…