We’re mere hours from Opening Day at T-Mobile Park, and the Mariners have announced their Opening Day roster:
You see that teeny-tiny little asterisk next to Kyle Lewis’s name? That is a bad asterisk. It’s a badsterisk. Because earlier today in a media call, Scott Servais said Kyle Lewis will begin the season on the IL, as the deep bone bruise he sustained on his surgically repaired right knee hasn’t responded to treatment. Servais said Lewis would be out “weeks” rather than days, which is a huge bummer for Lewis and for fans who were looking forward to seeing the reigning AL ROY take the field.